Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Donald Kreda

Dragan B Stojkovic

Joshua Robert Hemphill

Colleen Hoffman

John Comiez

Michael Shawn Watterworth

A tailgate assembly includes a frame subassembly having a cargo bed access opening disposed between a driver side section and a passenger side section, and a door subassembly that is pivotably coupled to the frame subassembly and is pivotable relative to the frame subassembly back-and-forth between a door open position and a door closed position. The door subassembly closes the cargo bed access opening when the door subassembly is in the door closed position. The assembly further includes a tube of the frame subassembly. The tube extends along an inboard side of the driver side section, along an inboard side of the passenger side section, and along a bottom of the cargo bed access opening.

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Donald Kreda