Patent ID: 8403398

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: a sliding door having an inner side facing an interior of the motor vehicle; a locking mechanism adapted for unlocking and locking the sliding door located in the closed position within the scope of an opening process or a closing process; and a protruding armrest disposed on the inner side, wherein the sliding door can be displaced from a closed position in which an entry opening of the motor vehicle is closed by the sliding door, within a scope of the opening process via an intermediate position in which the sliding door is outwardly offset with respect to an adjoining vehicle wall, into an open position in which the inner side of the sliding door is disposed opposite to an outer side of the adjoining vehicle wall, wherein, within the scope of the opening process, the protruding armrest is movable automatically from a usage position into a non-usage position in which the protruding armrest is set back with respect to the usage position in a direction of the inner side of the sliding door, and wherein, within the scope of the closing process in which the sliding door is displaced from the open position via the intermediate position into the closed position, the protruding armrest is further movable automatically from the non-usage position into the usage position wherein the protruding armrest is adapted to cooperate with the locking mechanism in such a manner that: during unlocking of the sliding door, the protruding armrest is automatically movable from the usage position into the non-usage position; and during locking of the sliding door, the protruding armrest is automatically movable from the non-usage position into the usage position.