Vehicle roof with front and rear covers

Vehicle roof having a front cover and a rear cover which, in a closed position of said covers, adjoin each other in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle roof to close an aperture in a fixed roof surface of a vehicle;

• said vehicle roof further comprising guide means for guiding of said front cover and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle roof at both sides of said aperture;
• first drive means, which cooperates with said front cover, for causing the front cover to be displaced along said guide means from a forward end position, which constitutes the closed position of the front cover, to a rearward end position in which the front cover is disposed above said rear cover solely via a translatory movement;
• second drive means, which cooperates with said rear cover, for pivoting the rear cover about an axis disposed in the vicinity of a rear edge of the rear cover between the closed position of the rear cover and a venting position in which a front edge of the rear cover is lowered relative to a rear edge of the front cover while the front cover is in its forward end position;
• and means for causing, during the translatory movement of the front cover from the forward end position thereof, the rear edge of the rear cover to be lowered, starting from the venting position, in a manner enabling the front cover, in the course of its translatory movement, to be slid into a position over said rear cover.