Patent ID: 7264388

Claim:
A motor vehicle with a vehicle body comprising: a vehicle body skin, an exterior illuminating device which is inserted into a slide-in opening in the vehicle body skin, and an illuminating device receiving system which is fastened adjacent to the slide-in opening on an interior side of the vehicle body skin, wherein the illuminating device receiving system has at least one approximately horizontally oriented receiving plate and at least first and second fastening flanges which are connected with first and second fastening surfaces on the interior side of the vehicle body skin, wherein the fastening flanges and the fastening surfaces are situated in a plane with respect to which a vertical vehicle axis is parallel, wherein, in a direction of a transverse vehicle axis, the illuminating device receiving system has an approximately L-shaped cross-section, a horizontal leg, and a vertical leg, wherein the vertical leg has a first of the fastening flanges, and wherein a second of the fastening flanges starts out on an edge side from the horizontal leg, wherein the first of the fastening flanges extends as a strip approximately in a longitudinal vehicle direction but at an angle with respect to a longitudinal vehicle axis, and wherein the second fastening flange is oriented as a strip approximately in the longitudinal vehicle direction and approximately parallel to the longitudinal vehicle axis.