Suzuki Motor Corporation

Hossain Amir

Akihiro Fujita

Takayuki Souma

Teruhisa Mita

Kazuaki Ikejima

A bracket structure is in a vehicle body rear portion. In the bracket structure, an upper bracketand first and second lower bracketsandare disposed in such a manner as to be shifted to a right side or a left side in the vehicle width direction from an axis passing through a center of a spare tire housing, the second lower bracketis formed in a concave shape and a closed section is formed between the first lower bracketand the second lower bracketby superposing the first lower bracketand the second lower bracket, and the upper bracketis attached to a top surface of the rear floor panel, and the upper bracketand the first lower bracketare disposed so as to correspond to each other in a vertical direction.

Bracket structure in vehicle body rear portion

A vehicle () is provided with an exhaust pipe () extending from an engine mounted in the front part of the vehicle to a branch part () in the rear part of the vehicle, and right and left branch pipes () extending from the branch part to mufflers () on both right and left sides. The branch part () is arranged so as to be offset to the side of either one muffler () of the right and left mufflers with respect to the center in the vehicle width direction; the exhaust pipe has an upstream part () laid linearly to a bend part () positioned in the center in the vehicle width direction near the rear end of a fuel tank, and an oblique part () laid slantwise from the bend part toward the branch part; and the length of the branch pipe () having a longer distance to the muffler is approximately equal to the length of the oblique part ().

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Hossain Amir