Motor vehicle e.g. one-box car, has retractable roof including mechanism moving front panel on rear panel, and switching unit moving panels to stored position on support panel without changing orientation of front and rear panels

摘要

The vehicle has a retractable roof arranged in an upper wall of the vehicle and including a mechanism moving a front panel (3) on a rear panel (4). A switching unit moves the panels to a stored position on a support panel (15) without changing orientation of the front and rear panels. The unit has legs co-operating with slides housed in a boot of the vehicle and tie rods (9A, 9B) forming a deformable parallelogram. The mechanism has a set of slides extending from a cross-member of a windscreen till a front edge of the support panel.