shown at 10 the motor vehicle 10 includes a sliding door 12 providing access to an inner compartment 14 of the motor vehicle 10 the inner compartment 14 is generally a passenger compartment having a plurality of seat assemblies 16 one partial seat assembly shown it should be appreciated that other doors 18 provide access to the inner compartment 14 further a plurality of sliding doors 12 may be utilized in one motor vehicle design only one is shown in fig1 for simplicity throughout this discussion the orientation from which reference of the invention 20 will be made will be the driver side sliding door 12 with a front being directed toward a front 22 of the motor vehicle 10 referring to fig2 the invention 20 is an automated closure assembly the automated closure assembly 20 provides power to move the sliding door 12 between a closed position and an open position the closed position is a latched position preventing access to the inner compartment 14 the open position is defined as when the access to the inner compartment 14 is the greatest in other words the sliding door 12 is at its furthest most position from the front 22 of the motor vehicle referring back to fig1 the sliding door is in an intermediate position defined as a position between the open and closed positions the intermediate position will be discussed in greater detail subsequently the embodiment of the automatic closure assembly 20 shown in fig2 allows for two types of motion for the sliding door 12 the first type of motion.