Motor vehicle with a continuously variable transmission

A motor vehicle comprising:

• a continuously variable transmission;
• an engine longitudinally mounted on a front side of said motor vehicle for outputting power to drive a wheel via said continuously variable transmission;
• a passenger compartment including foot operational equipment;
• an engine compartment on said front side of said motor vehicle;
• a toe board partitioning said passenger compartment and said engine compartment;
• a starting clutch operatively connected to said engine for engaging and disengaging said power to said wheel;
• a changeover apparatus, directly and coaxially interposed between said starting clutch and said continuously variable transmission, for changing a moving direction of said motor vehicle forwardly or rearwardly;
• a speed reduction apparatus functionally connected to said continuously variable transmission just under an intermediate position between said changeover apparatus and said continuously variable transmission, for reducing an output shaft speed of said continuously variable transmission and for changing a transmitting direction of said power;
• and
• a front differential, perpendicularly suspended under said speed reduction apparatus such that an axis of said front differential crosses at a right angle to an axis of said speed reduction apparatus and integrally housed in a case with said continuously variable transmission and said speed reduction apparatus, for absorbing a speed difference between left and right wheels,
• wherein said continuously variable transmission is mounted in parallel with said engine in front of said toe board in said engine compartment so as to efficiently minimize a size and weight of said motor vehicle and to largely optimize comfortability and an arrangement of said equipment in said motor vehicle.