Hard-top vehicle

A hard-top vehicle having a roof structure including at least one roof part and a rear-window part, the roof structure being pivoted via a positive-control device fixedly supported on a bodywork of the vehicle from a closed position bearing against a front windscreen frame and covering a rear-passenger-compartment region into an open position towards a tail-end region of the vehicle, comprising:

• a tail gate of the vehicle, said tail gate being supported via a pivot pin, the roof structure being lowerable into a folding-top compartment in a region of said tail gate;
• an auxiliary frame on which said tail gate is articulated via its pivot pin, said auxiliary frame being supported via a second pivot pin on the bodywork in a lower vehicle end region;
• wherein said tail gate is pivoted with a first movement about its pivot pin into a first open position opening a trunk towards the rear;
• wherein a forward end of said tail gate is pivoted upwards with a second movement about the second pivot pin together with said auxiliary frame into a second opening position to expose the folding-top compartment and the trunk upwards, and
• wherein the auxiliary frame comprises, beginning from an upper supporting leg, a supporting tube extending in an essentially U-shaped manner in a lower vehicle end region, said supporting tube having a base leg running perpendicularly with respect to a longitudinal axis through said vehicle, said base leg defining a pivot axis for the auxiliary frame and being supported on the bodywork via at least one hinge joint.