A vehicle rear panel includes a plate having one or more lateral notches formed in the bottom portion for allowing the plate to be folded. A board has a rear portion secured to the rear portion of the plate. The plate may be folded for preventing the plate from hurting passenger when shocks and vibrations are transmitted to the plate. The board may be tilted by the plate for protecting the passenger when the plate is folded. One or more resilient bars may be engaged in the lateral notches for absorbing shocks transmitted to the plate.
A vehicle storage box mounting structure is configured to reduce the discomfort felt by the passenger when the passenger's knees hit the storage box during a front collision without significantly reducing the strength and rigidity of the slide rails overall. The vehicle storage box mounting structure serves to mount a storage box to a vehicle in such a manner that the storage box can be moved between two positions, a stored position and a pulled out position, by slide rails provided on both sides of the storage box. The vehicle storage box mounting structure is configured such that at least a portion of the slide rails can be made to swing in response to an input force to the storage box from a passenger during a front collision.
