The picture below shows the flow over the truck with the tailgate lowered. The characteristics are the same as the baseline, however, flow is allowed to pass through the rear of the bed. The lowered tailgate helps to straighten the flow behind the bed. The drag coefficient with a lowered tailgate is 0.414. This is a      4.17% decrease in drag from the baseline condition.

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