Patent ID: 6102472
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
Vehicle body (52) comprising:a front part (4) and a rear part (6) mutually connected via a floor pan (8) and body sides (10,12) with openings for doors, and a roof part which via hollow pillars is structurally connected to the front and rear parts (4,6) of the body sides (10,12),which body is comprised of two main structural body parts connected to each other in the region of an imaginary dividing surface (P.sub.1 -P.sub.2) level with or under the lower glass edges of the window openings in the body, where the main body parts situated under the dividing surface is a body lower part (54) comprising the floor pan (8), front and rear parts (4,6) and body side lower parts,wherein the main body part situated above the dividing surface is a body superstructure (56) with a beam structure (58) comprising roll-formed, thin-walled profile parts (60-76) joined together by welds,which profile parts have closed, flangeless cross-sections and are made of a hardened tensile steel and which hardened tensile steel has a yield point which is at least 900 N/mm.sup.2.