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Ford has filed a patent application for a trisected tailgate that looks to be Fords answer to GM's MultiPro tailgate and Ram's MultiFunction tailgate.

Ford Files Patent For Trisected Tailgate That Opens Like...

Ford has filed a patent application for a trisected tailgate that looks to be Fords answer to GM's MiltiPro tailgate and Ram's MultiFunction tailgate. Could we see this on the Lightning at some point...

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[Stroking it]

Ford had it on there station wagons back in the day.

 

[bugman]

I don't like it, while it may be more convent at times I can see it causing problems down the road if you use your truck as a truck.

Same with the man step, while it is handy for getting in and out of the bed I have seen quite a few trucks with the plastic broken off.