Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Koji Tokuyama

Fumihiko Kishima

Yoshihiro Itoh

Norimasa Koreishi

Dan Suzuki

Sota Sugimoto

Nozomi Saito

A front end structure of a vehicle body may include: a horn; a bumper cover; an inner grille disposed between the horn and the bumper cover, and a megaphone including a megaphone wall defining a megaphone opening extending along a direction along which the horn and the bumper cover are aligned, wherein a first opening end of the megaphone opposes the horn, a second opening end of the megaphone opposes the bumper cover, and the megaphone is integrated with the inner grille.

Front end structure of vehicle body

A vehicle may include: a front grille including an air intake; a radiator arranged behind the front grille; an air duct configured to guide air from the air intake to the radiator, the air duct widening upward from the air intake to the radiator; and a horn arranged in front of the air duct at a position higher than the air intake.

Vehicle

A vehicle rear portion structure includes a cross member that extends in a vehicle width direction at a vehicle rear, a rear wheel house that accommodates a rear tire, a rear pillar that extends in a vehicle vertical direction, a reinforcing member that connects the rear pillar with the rear wheel house, and a joining member that connects a lower end portion of the reinforcing member with one end portion of the cross member. The rear pillar is divided into a general portion and a high-rigidity portion. The high-rigidity portion is connected to an upper end portion of the general portion and is specified with a higher rigidity than the general portion. The reinforcing member is connected to the high-rigidity portion.

Vehicle rear portion structure

A vehicle understructure includes a flow adjusting member provided rearward of a protruding member protruding further toward a vehicle lower side than a lower surface of a rocker panel, a front bumper, or a rear bumper as viewed from a vehicle width direction, the flow adjusting member being configured to adjust an air flow that flows from a vehicle front side toward a vehicle rear side along the protruding member during traveling of a vehicle. The flow adjusting member has a main part and a guide part provided at a lower part of an end part of the flow adjusting member, the guide part being inclined with respect to the main part toward the vehicle rear side such that a distance between the guide part and a rear end of the vehicle reduces toward an end part of the guide part in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle understructure

A vehicle rear structure includes a bottom cover disposed rearward of a rear wheel well in a vehicle front-rear direction. The bottom cover includes an air inlet into which air that has flowed from a front side toward a rear side in the vehicle front-rear direction is taken such that the air flows outward in a vehicle-width direction. The bottom cover further includes an air outlet provided at a position outward of the air inlet in the vehicle-width direction. The air outlet is an air outlet from which the air flows from the air inlet outward in the vehicle-width direction is discharged outward in the vehicle-width direction and downward in a vehicle-height direction.

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Nishio, Japan

Koji Tokuyama