Patent ID: 7849959

Claim:
An exhaust pipe structure for a vehicle, comprising: mufflers disposed on both right and left sides in the rear end part of the vehicle; an exhaust pipe extending from an exhaust manifold of an engine mounted in the front part of the vehicle to a branch part in the rear part of the vehicle through a portion under a fuel tank disposed under a rear seat; and right and left branch pipes extending from the branch part to the right and left mufflers, wherein the branch part is arranged so as to be offset to the side of either one of the right and left mufflers with respect to the center in the vehicle width direction; the exhaust pipe has an upstream part that extends from the exhaust manifold to a bend part positioned in the center in the vehicle width direction near the rear end of the fuel tank and is laid linearly in the center in the vehicle width direction at least in a section ranging from a floor front end part to the bend part, and an oblique part laid slantwise from the bend part toward the branch part; and the length of the branch pipe having a longer distance to the corresponding muffler is approximately equal to the length of the oblique part.