Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hiroyo Miyanaga

Satoru Kawabe

Koichi Takahashi

Masayasu Yoshida

Takayuki Soma

Naoyuki Saruwatari

Yasuhiro Ishiyama

Hisashi Suzuki

This vehicle body side structure includes a wheel house disposed at a side portion of a vehicle body to surround an upper outer circumference and a vehicle width direction inner side of a wheel, and a damper base fixed to an inner surface of an upper region of the wheel house to support an upper part of a damper of a suspension, in which an upwardly convex three-dimensional curved surface portion curved in all of a side view, a front-rear view, and a vertical view without an inflection point is provided in the upper region of the wheel house, and the damper base is fixed to an inner surface of the three-dimensional curved surface portion.

Vehicle body side structure

Included are a cowl top arranged on a lower end part of a front windshield; a dash panel provided with a first air intake port for sucking external air under and behind the cowl top, and on one side of the cowl top in a vehicle width direction; a hood arranged in front of the dash panel, and above an engine room; left and right fenders arranged respectively on sides of the cowl top; and left and right cowl sides extending in up-down and front-rear directions respectively on the opposite sides of the cowl top in the vehicle width direction. The right cowl side includes a second air intake port for introducing the external air to under the cowl top. The hood is arranged above the second air intake port. The right fender is arranged outside the second air intake port in the vehicle width direction.

Cowl top structure

Included are a cowl top arranged in a front portion of a vehicle, and extending in a vehicle width direction; a front pillar arranged in a side portion of the vehicle, and extending such that the front pillar becomes located higher toward a rear; and a garnish extending frontward from a front end part of the front pillar, and curving to a vehicle width inner side to be connected to a vehicle width outer end part of the cowl top. The cowl top includes a vertical wall part extending in the vehicle width direction and in a vehicle up-down direction in the vehicle width outer end part, and a first locking part provided to a vehicle width inner end part of the garnish is locked in a front-rear direction with a long hole provided to the vertical wall part, and extending in the vehicle width direction.

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