Patent ID: 8491038

Claim:
A motor vehicle comprising: a front crossmember; an engine compartment behind the front crossmember; a fixing element comprising a radiator support arranged in the engine compartment; a bonnet or hood that closes the engine compartment and includes a free edge substantially parallel to the front crossmember; and a front bumper or fender mounted in front of the front crossmember and including a central part extending toward the bonnet, the central part including an upper portion delimited by a top edge that faces the free edge of the bonnet, the upper portion including a fixing tab that extends into the engine compartment and includes an attachment region fixed to the fixing element; the fixing tab including a frangible region in front of said attachment region and configured to break when a force exceeding a given rupture value is applied to the frangible region, wherein an empty space that corresponds substantially to the space which, in a longitudinal dimension of the vehicle, separates an internal face of the front bumper from the fixing element, is formed, in the engine compartment, under the fixing tab, and the frangible region is arranged in the region of the empty space, near the free edge of the bonnet, which contrivance, when the frangible region breaks, the central part of the bumper flexes into the empty space toward the bottom of the vehicle.