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"Buick&amp;rsquo;s Enclave is the latest, but not last, member of GM&amp;rsquo;s Lambda crossover family to hit the market. (Chevrolet will get a version to replace the Trailblazer, which has suffered at the hands of high gas prices and buyers looking for utility vehicles with more refinement than body-on-frame entries can muster.) It is not, however, just a lightly modified clone of its siblings.&amp;ldquo;We used two-piece doors on the Enclave as it was the only way to get the thin upper section that would give the look and flush fit we wanted,&amp;rdquo; says Todd Pawlik, manager, Program Engineering on the Enclave program. &amp;ldquo;The doors are totally different than those on the (Saturn) Outlook and (GMC) Acadia, and we added a seal at the seam so that no &amp;lsquo;skunk stripe&amp;rsquo; would appear between the front and rear doors.&amp;rdquo; Tight panel fits between panels also were a priority for the Enclave team as the design did away with ditches at major mating areas normally used to hide seams. &amp;ldquo;The front and rear fascias are two-piece designs with flush seams all around,&amp;rdquo; says Pawlik, and the lower side trim fits flush in a cavity designed into the body.&amp;rdquo; He says this means parts have to be straight out of the tool, and this required much greater attention to detail to get everything to work. &amp;ldquo;The designers didn&amp;rsquo;t make it easy,&amp;rdquo; he says.According to Ed Welburn, GM&amp;rsquo;s v.p."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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