Patent ID: 7090290

Claim:
A motor vehicle having a self-supporting body, comprising: a passenger compartment, a floor, chassis beam members running on the floor of the body and extending from a vehicle front end past the passenger compartment to a vehicle rear end, two rear reinforcing struts arranged in a V pattern, each rear reinforcing strut attached at a front end to one of said chassis beam members running beneath the passenger compartment in a rear half of the vehicle, and at a rear end on a bottom of the vehicle rear end, wherein the two rear reinforcing struts are arranged approximately in a horizontal plane, and wherein the rear ends of the rear reinforcing struts are mounted at a connecting area on the bottom of the vehicle rear end, further comprising two other reinforcing struts running in a V shape, wherein the two other reinforcing struts are each mounted at an inner end at the connecting area on the bottom of the vehicle rear end and at an outer end on the rear chassis beam members, and wherein the two other reinforcing struts run from the bottom of the vehicle rear end to the rear chassis beam members at an angle relative to the horizontal plane, and each of the two other reinforcing members is disposed at an oblique angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and at an oblique angle relative to a transverse axis of the vehicle.