Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kanji Fujii

Yoshitomo Ihashi

Toshiki Takahashi

Yoshimi Mizutani

Jun Mitsui

Takaya Okuyama

Tsuyoshi Higuchi

A vehicle body structure comprises: a side roof rail, a rear roof rail, and a rear pillar, which are disposed in the rear portion of an vehicle body, and which intersect each other at an intersecting portion; a rear door provided for optionally opening and closing a rear port of the vehicle body; an automatic opening and closing unit disposed inside the vehicle body and in the vicinity of the intersecting portion; an aperture provided in the intersecting portion; and an arm provided through the aperture for connecting the automatic opening and closing unit to the rear door. The automatic opening and closing unit is fixed to at least the side roof rail, the rear roof rail, and the rear pillar so as to pass above the aperture.

Vehicle body structure

In a vehicle rear body structure in which a muffler is disposed below a rear cross member disposed to extend transversely below a rear part of the body of a vehicle, a lower end portion of the rear cross member extends downwardly to substantially the same height of that of a lower end portion of a rear bumper face disposed rearward of the rear cross member. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the generation of heat deformation by protecting from heat related effects from a muffler a lower end portion of a rear bumper which tends to easily heat deform.

Vehicle rear body structure

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Kanji Fujii