Patent ID: 7891728

Claim:
A motor vehicle ( 1 ), comprising: a motor vehicle chassis; at least two reinforcing struts ( 4 , 5 ) located below an underbody ( 2 ) of said chassis, each of which extends from a respective chassis attachment ( 6 , 7 ) with a component in the direction of a vertical longitudinal mid-plane ( 3 ), wherein said chassis attachments are spaced by a first distance with respect to the vehicle transverse direction; and a connection support ( 12 ) provided free under the underbody ( 2 ) and with a distance from the underbody ( 2 ), at which support said at least two struts ( 4 , 5 ) are held at a second distance ( 8 ) smaller than said first distance with respect to the vehicle transverse direction, as well as two further struts ( 13 , 14 ), which from there extend away, in each case, with a component in the direction of the vertical longitudinal mid-plane ( 3 ); wherein the connection support ( 12 ) is angled about at least one axis ( 24 ) extending transverse to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle ( 1 ) between the mountings for said two struts ( 4 , 5 ) and the mountings for said two further struts ( 13 , 14 ); wherein at the connection support, said two strut pairs ( 4 , 5 ; 13 , 14 ) are arranged behind one another and have, at least in projection onto a bent plane corresponding to the axis ( 24 ) of the connection support ( 12 ), a nearly x-shaped collective form; wherein distal ends ( 17 , 18 ) of said two further struts ( 13 , 14 ) are fixed at a transverse support ( 20 ) to the chassis via connection flanges ( 21 , 22 ) which at least partially encompass the front and rear sides of said transverse support ( 20 ).