Patent ID: 8056926

Claim:
A vehicle front body structure including, on each of left and right sides of a vehicle body, a front side frame extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, and an upper member disposed laterally outwardly of the front side frame, said vehicle front body structure comprising: separate inner and outer impact absorbing sections connected to and provided forward of respective front ends of the front side frame and upper member for absorbing an impact load acting on a front of the vehicle body; an overlapping section constructed by positioning an inner side wall portion of said outer impact absorbing section closer to a longitudinal centerline of the vehicle body than an outer side wall portion of the front side frame so that a rear end portion of said outer impact absorbing section and a front end portion of the front side frame partly overlap each other, whereby part of the impact load can be transmitted to the outer side wall portion by way of said overlapping section.