Buick Enclave

Buick Enclave

Buick

MarqueBuick
ProductionApril 2007–present
Engine3.6 L LY7/LLT V6

Among the 83 Buick entries in the MotorJury library, the Buick Enclave holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2007. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Buick Enclave properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan GT-R, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Tiguan, the Hyundai Hyundai i30 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Buick Enclave reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.6 L LY7/LLT V6; kerb weight is recorded at 4780-4985 lb; drive goes through 6-speed 6T75 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Buick story

Within Buick's own catalogue the Buick Enclave sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. The record names the Buick Rainier / Buick Rendezvous / Buick Terraza as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Jack Folden. Assembly is recorded at United States: Delta Township, Michigan (Lansing Delta Township Assembly).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Buick Enclave was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Transmission6-speed 6T75 automatic
LayoutFront-engine, front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive
Body style5-door SUV
Kerb weight4780-4985 lb
Wheelbase118.9 in
Length5,113 mm
AssemblyUnited States: Delta Township, Michigan (Lansing Delta Township Assembly)
DesignerJack Folden
PredecessorBuick Rainier / Buick Rendezvous / Buick Terraza
Catalogue IDQ24055

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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