Mazda Motor Corporation

Akiyoshi Okada

Yukihiro Kanemaru

Noriaki Shiraishi

Yoshinobu Nomura

Hiroshi Tazaki

Sigeru Kamiyama

Hideaki Akahosi

Kenzou Kihara

Shigenori Amioka

A vehicle body structure having a passenger compartment and a roof structure covering the passenger compartment, the roof structure including a rigid front roof panel and a rigid rear roof panel which are connected together through a hinge mechanism. The rear roof panel is pivotably mounted on the rear body for swinging movement about a swinging axis. A linkage is provided so that when the rear roof panel is moved from an extended position where the roof structure covers the top portion of the passenger compartment to a retracted position wherein the roof panels are retracted into the rear body section, the front roof panel is folded over the rear roof panel with the inside of the front roof panel faced to the inside of the rear roof panel.

Upper body structure for a convertible vehicle

A convertible type vehicle body structure comprising a main roof structure, a first roof section pivotally connected to the rear end portion of the main roof structure at the front end portion, a second roof section connected to the rear end portion of the first roof section at the front end portion by hinge, a rear deck structure to which the second roof section is pivotally connected at the rear end portion wherein the first and second roof sections displaceably carried by the body structure so as to displace to take plural positions so that the volume of the passenger compartment can be changed without an open roof condition.

Upper body structure of vehicle

In an underbody structure for a rear-engine rear-drive car or a midship-engine rear-drive car, a dash panel for separating the passenger compartment from a trunk formed at the front of the body is provided with a concave portion projecting into the passenger compartment in the lower portion of the dash panel substantially at the center thereof and the fuel tank is disposed partly in the concave portion and partly in the trunk.

Underbody structure for vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Akiyoshi Okada