FRONT VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOBILE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a front vehicle body structure of an automobile capable of improving rigidity of a cowl member while efficiently transmitting a load transmitted to a front side frame to the rear and dispersing it. SOLUTION: The front vehicle body structure of the automobile includes the cowl member extending to the front along an overall area in the vehicle width direction from a dash lower panel 2 and a side part front end of which is connected to a suspension tower 3 and a reinforcing member to connect a front side frame 12 and an apron reinforcement 14 to each other in the neighborhood of the suspension tower 3 (mounting bracket 10, auxiliary frame 30 and second auxiliary frame 36), and the second auxiliary frame 36 making a part of the reinforcing member is provided straddling over both of a cowl front side member 23 and the suspension tower 3 constituting the cowl member so as to form a cross-section surface 37 extending in the vehicle width direction between the cowl front side member 23 and the suspension tower 3 constituting the cowl member. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT