Patent ID: 8042858

Claim:
A retractable roof, comprising: a roof member for covering a passenger compartment; and a linkage mechanism for alternately changing a position of the roof member between an in-use position in which the roof member covers a passenger compartment and a storage position in which the roof member is stowed in a storage room formed at a rear of the passenger compartment to open the passenger compartment, wherein the roof member includes a front roof panel for covering the passenger compartment from above and a back roof panel, disposed at the rear of the front roof panel, for covering a rear part of the passenger compartment, the linkage mechanism includes a four-bar link constituted by first and second links each pivotally connected to the front roof panel and a car body side member, the back roof panel is pivotally connected to the front roof panel and the car body side member to function as the first link, and the back roof panel is pivotally connected at a part thereof which is on a front side of a pivot point of the second link to the front roof panel.