VEHICLE DOOR

Hollow-interior vehicle door consisting of an internal in its entirety essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, and of at least one external outer panel element being essentially lid-shaped and supported by the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, such as a door skin, as well as of functional parts for practicing the door functions, and of optionally an inner panel element, in which the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure serves to accommodate functional parts of the vehicle door. The essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure is divided into two parts, in fact, into a first frame-shaped stiffening element ( 12 ) for supporting the outer panel element (outer panel 10 ) and into a second essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening element ( 14 ) for supporting functional parts of the vehicle door ( 1 ) and that the two stiffening elements ( 12 and 14 ) have, in the area of the outward-pointing, thus in Y-direction pointing, side walls of the door interior ( 1 A), elongated, preferably frame-shaped connecting surfaces ( 18 and 18 ') which define the access opening ( 1 B) to the door interior ( 1 A).