Mazda Motor Corporation

Masanori Taguchi

Hiroki Uemura

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Koji Miyamoto

Yamato Matsuda

Eiji Okada

Yoshito Hirata

Atsuo Iwabuchi

Hidehiko Soda

Junko Nakamura

Kouji Tokunaga

Yohichi Yanagi

Hiroyuki Kawai

Junko Karube

Ryoichi Hashimoto

Kazuki Hikawa

Akira Michinaga

A shift device comprises a shift lever and a shift knob. A driver moves the shift knob in a longitudinal direction when a shift change is conducted between plural traveling positions. The driver moves the shift knob, in a lateral direction, toward a driver's side when the shift change is conducted from a R position to a P position. When viewed from a vehicle rear side, the shift lever located at the traveling positions takes a first position where the shift lever is inclined, relative to its upright state, in a direction of separating its upper end portion with the shift knob from a driver's seat, whereas the shift lever located at the P position takes a second position where the shift lever is in the upright state or in a state which is closer to the upright state than the first position.

Vehicle shift device with lateral and longitudinal motion

A center console structure includes a columnar part erected on a vehicle interior floor surface between a driver seat and a passenger seat and extends upward to the vicinity of the cushion surfaces of the seats and an upper body that is disposed above the columnar part, extends in a front-rear direction, has an upper surface part forming a center console surface, and accommodates a shift operation mechanism, in which the upper body extends forward of the columnar part that is cantilevered and has an extension part that is bent and then rises forward and obliquely upward in the front part thereof, a surface part of the extension part close to a sitting occupant forms an outer surface continuous with the center console surface and a portion of the extension part close to the front of the vehicle is locked to a rear projecting part of an instrument panel.

Center console structure

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Hiroshima, Japan

Masanori Taguchi