Vehicle body structure

A vehicle body structure comprising:

• a front plate portion that faces in a vehicle front-rear direction;
• an inclined portion that obliquely descends rearward from a lower end of the front plate portion and is coupled to a floor panel making up a floor surface of a cabin;
• an arch-shaped portion that is located at outer end portions in a vehicle width direction of the front plate portion and the inclined portion and makes up a wheel arch-shaped rear portion of a tire house;
• a front side frame that is located inward of the arch-shaped portion in the vehicle width direction and extends from the front plate portion to the inclined portion in the vehicle front-rear direction;
• a reinforcement panel that is placed over the arch-shaped portion;
• and
• an outrigger that is disposed on a surface on an opposite side from a surface on which the reinforcement panel is placed, in at least one of the arch-shaped portion and the inclined portion, which is rearward of the arch-shaped portion, and is joined thereto via a ridge line joint portion that is set up along a ridge line between the arch-shaped portion and the inclined portion,
• wherein the reinforcement panel is disposed outward in the vehicle width direction of an innermost portion in the vehicle width direction in the arch-shaped portion, and wherein the reinforcement panel is laid across and over the arch-shaped portion to the inclined portion rearward of the arch-shaped portion while following shapes of the arch-shaped portion and the inclined portion, and is joined to the inclined portion via the ridge line joint portion.