Motor vehicle and a sump guard and undertray assembly therefor

A motor vehicle comprising:

• a body structure which defines at least a passenger compartment and an engine compartment, the engine compartment having a lower surface and the body structure having a lower portion and a front portion;
• an engine mounted within the engine compartment;
• and
• a sump guard and undertray assembly connected to said lower portion to at least partly cover said lower surface;
• wherein the sump guard and undertray assembly has a rigid sump guard member rigidly connected to the front portion of the body structure, and an undertray having a front portion which is hingedly connected to the sump guard member along a transverse hinge axis and a rear portion which has two first apertures therethrough and is connected to the lower portion of the body structure by at least two connections, each connection comprises a bracket having a second aperture therethrough and a rivet passing through one of the first apertures and one of the second apertures, and the first aperture have a sufficiently large diameter to permit sliding movement between the undertray and the brackets thereby to allow relative motion between the undertray and the body structure when the undertray is subjected to a load applied from below the motor vehicle.