Patent ID: 8061765

Claim:
A vehicle body, comprising: a vehicle base; an upright central tunnel extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and connected to said vehicle base, said upright central tunnel having longitudinally running turned-out portions, a shape of a U-profile in cross section, and a lower open tunnel region directed toward said vehicle base, said upright central tunnel further having, at said lower open tunnel region, two profiled closing parts disposed spaced apart from one another in the vehicle longitudinal direction and disposed and fastened between said longitudinally running turned-out portions and extending across a width of said upright central tunnel; front and rear transverse seat supports for vehicle seats, said two profiled closing parts disposed in each case between said front and rear transverse seat supports, said front and rear transverse seat supports extending in each case to both sides of said upright central tunnel and connected to said vehicle base; said two profiled closing parts being composed of extruded profiles and including a front closing part and a rear closing part, one of said two profiled closing parts having transversely running fastening webs being upper fastening webs, in a region of said transversely running fastening webs said profiled closing part has a plurality of transversely running open hollow chambers disposed one above another and adjacent to one another, said hollow chambers include outer hollow chambers and in each case one further hollow chamber being enclosed in said outer hollow chambers for providing a leadthrough for fastening screws, said further hollow chamber having an inwardly offset base and said upper fastening webs for one of a two-shear connection to said upright central tunnel or a connection to components of said vehicle body by means of said fastening screws.