Patent ID: 8517460

Claim:
A vehicle body rear structure, comprising: a seat including a folding seat back; a rear wheelhouse inner panel forming a part of a vehicle body and curved to protrude toward an inner side of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and a seat striker provided for undertaking engaging and disengaging between an engaging part provided on a rear face of the seat back and the rear wheelhouse inner panel, wherein the rear wheelhouse inner panel includes a wheelhouse base forming a lower half part of the rear wheelhouse inner panel and a wheelhouse extension extending integrally upward from an upper end of the wheelhouse base, a stiffener attached to a vehicle-interior-side surface of the wheelhouse extension and the rear wheelhouse inner panel form a dogleg-shaped closed section, the seat striker is attached to a bracket provided on at a vehicle-interior-side surface of the stiffener, and the stiffener and a damper attaching portion provided on the rear wheelhouse inner panel are joined continuously along a curved surface of the rear wheelhouse inner panel.