Intake air management apparatus for a vehicle, and motorcycle including same

An air cleaner housing (18) includes an upper case (31), a partition wall (33) and a lower case (32). The inside thereof is partitioned into an upper, filtered side (34) and a lower unfiltered side (35). Intake funnel pipes (37), connected to front and rear cylinders, project into the filtered side (34). An air cleaner element (36) is provided on the front side relative to a hollow plenum (34a) above the intake funnel pipes (37). Inlets in side surfaces of the unfiltered side face toward a V bank of the engine. During use, air enters the bottom of the housing (18), and is cleaned by the air cleaner element (36). The clean air flows through the filtered side (34) of the housing (18), into the intake funnel pipes (37) and toward the cylinders on the lower side. A raised portion (31a) is formed on the front upper side of the upper case (31), and the air cleaner element (36) is disposed inside the raised portion (31a).