DASHBOARD UPPER STRUCTURE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dashboard upper structure which securely separates water from air, is made compact and has improved air-intake efficiency by reducing resistance of taken flow of intake air.SOLUTION: In the dashboard upper structure, a drainage ditch 41 extending to a vehicle width direction is provided above a drainage passage 37. An intake passage 38 is a passage forming a space independently from the drainage passage 37, and includes an intake opening 42 for taking external air. In a vehicle side view. a closed cross section shape is formed by: an upper cross plate partition wall member 32 of which both ends are connected to an upper side member of an upper right and left part of an engine room 22; a lower cross plate partition wall member 33 of which both ends are connected to the upper side member; and an engine room upper partition member 34 of which both ends are connected to an upper side member 26, and it is formed by providing a partition wall facing the intake opening part 42.