Patent ID: 8403405

Claim:
A vehicular hood structure comprising: a hood outer panel of a hood that covers an engine room to be opened and closed; a hood inner panel of the hood being placed on a hood lower side of the hood outer panel; a hood lock reinforcement that is placed between the hood outer panel and the hood inner panel to reinforce a hood front end portion, and that is equipped with a bottom portion and an extension portion, the bottom portion disposed on the hood inner panel and the extension portion disposed extending from a hood front-rear direction rear end of the bottom portion toward the hood outer panel side, and in the extension portion, the rigidity of a site at least on the hood outer panel side being set low as compared to the rigidity of the bottom portion; a base plate that is disposed and overlapped only on the bottom portion of the hood lock reinforcement; and a striker that is fixed to the base plate, that projects toward the hood lower side through a through hole formed in the hood inner panel, and to which locking parts on a vehicle body frame member locks, wherein the hood lock reinforcement is formed by joining plural sheets whose sheet thicknesses are mutually different, and is configured such that a sheet thickness of the site at least on the hood outer panel side in the extension portion is set thin as compared to the sheet thickness of the bottom portion, and a vehicle width direction length in a hood vertical direction lower end of a low-rigidity portion of the extension portion is longer than a vehicle width direction length of the base plate, the rigidity in the low-rigidity portion of the extension portion being set low as compared to the rigidity of the bottom portion.