Patent ID: 8517453

Claim:
A vehicle front structure that forms a framework of a vehicle front portion, the vehicle front structure comprising: side members that are provided at side end portions of a vehicle and extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, wherein each of the side members absorbs a load by being crushed at a front portion of the side member in the front-rear direction of the vehicle by the load transmitted from a front side of the vehicle, and includes a load transmission path switching portion that changes a transmission path of the load from the front-rear direction of the vehicle toward a side of the vehicle by being deformed by the load transmitted to the side member, the load transmission path switching portion is a recess in the side member that corresponds to a trace of a front wheel of the vehicle during steering, two mounts that support a power unit are provided on each of the side members, and when distances between a foot of a perpendicular to a straight line, which connects the two mounts, from a deepest portion of the recess and the mounts are denoted by a and b, respectively, a distance where each of the mounts can be moved by the load is denoted by x, and a distance between the mount and the power unit is denoted by y, “y≦[x(a+b−x)] 1/2 ” is satisfied.