With a legacy built on compelling exterior design and American luxury the Cadillac
Escalade has been forging its own path in the full-size SUV market since 1998.
Now with the refresh in 2021 we have the Cadillac Escalade that we see here today. That bold,
burly yet luxurious exterior that draws onlookers eyes and gives you a ride of your lifetime.
Let's take a look around it and see what are the standout features
This is a large full-size SUV, which means you're going to get a broad hood with these
perfectly placed style lines. Draw your eye to this center one it is going to come to an exact
point right here in the middle of that hood. It also continues all the way down your front fascia
giving you seamless symmetry. The Cadillac has put in place to make those little design elements make
your Escalade stand out even more. Taking a look at your grille; it's huge. It also has that mesh
finish housing your iconic Cadillac emblem that is going to command the road wherever you're driving.
Also take a look at your lighting, you are going to have your slender style headlights that are
going to be full led along with your vertical blade style turn signal and daytime running
lights. This combined with your grille, that broad hood, and just the overall front fascia of
the Escalade is going to give you a luxurious, burly, and beautiful presence on the road. The
Cadillac Escalade comes in five different trim levels for you to choose from. You have luxury,
premium luxury like this one right here, premium luxury platinum, sport, and sport platinum.
You also have two engine options to choose from a 6.2 liter v8 pushing out 420 horsepower and a 3.0
liter turbo diesel v6 pushing out 277 horsepower. The exterior of the Cadillac Escalade; it doesn't
really need an introduction. It still has that bold boxy exterior feel that is notable from
the original design in 1998. However, Cadillac has taken that design refined it a little bit,
added in more style lines smoothing it out some, but staying true to that iconic original design.
With this being such a large SUV Cadillac needed to make sure that the ride was just as luxurious
as the exterior and interior styling; that is why they integrated magnetic ride control. Now this
is going to read the ground a thousand times per second feeding that information back up into your
Escalade making your ride smooth and comfortable almost like you were driving on a cloud.
Also adding to the convenience of the Escalade, Cadillac has added available air ride adaptive
suspension. Now with this activated you're going to be able to lower your Escalade making it easier
to enter the cabin of the vehicle or to put things in the cargo space if you have your hands full.
Once everyone is inside and all the doors are closed up your Cadillac raises back up to driving
level and you're good to go on your way. The exquisite design cues that we have seen
through the side and the front of this vehicle were not lost on the rear which unfortunately
is so common in the auto industry now. People pay a lot of attention to the front making that front
end look really burly and pulling in onlooker's eyes and the rear becomes an afterthought.
Cadillac made sure that this was not the case with the Escalade. They continued those style
lines all the way through the bold lines making it very chiseled adding in the chrome piece to make
it cohesive across the entire of the vehicle as well as your badging and your signature
vertical style tail lights pulling down into your dual chrome exhaust outlets.
When it comes to loading cargo into your Cadillac Escalade you have a couple different options:
say you have a couple of light bags and things that you don't need to open the entire tailgate
for on your key simply double click the top button and it's going to open your glass right here
raise it up and you can easily set things over into the cargo space. However, if you have
larger items that you're looking to put in the back of your Escalade you have two different
options of how to open the full lift gate you can either double click the button on your key
your lift gate will raise revealing all of your cargo space so you can easily put things in take
things out when you're done you can close it by either pushing the button on your lift gate
or by double clicking the button on your key again. It will lower and lock in place
and you're ready to go about your day. Now the third way that you can open the
lift gate is if you have a lot of stuff in your hands simply do a quick kicking motion
your tailgate will raise revealing all of that cargo space once again the intricate and inviting
interior of the Cadillac Escalade is poised to make your senses tingle taking a look around you
will notice the natural wood finishes along with the hand-finished leather appointments
that are both up here on the front dash as well as throughout the cabin including in the center
console across almost all of the trim levels of the cadillac escalade you are going to get
heated and ventilated leather front seats as well as heated second row seats leather seats
are more than likely going to come standard across all trim levels and all rows of seating
the first thing you're going to notice when you step into the cadillac escalade is the industry's
first curved oled display this is giving you 38 inches of display screens on the left hand side
you are going to have your touch screen control panel this is going to allow you to navigate
through your different trips as well as turn on augmented reality heads up display and available
night vision if your cadillac escalade has that that's actually a really cool feature
that if your escalade has it and you turn it on and you're driving along a dark road it is
actually going to highlight with a box around it if there's anything off to the side of your car
such as an animal or a person walking down the road in the middle you have your cluster this
is going to house your speedometer right front and center as well as two customizable zones
where you can add things such as navigation audio phone all of those different things
and rounding out the 38 inches of the oled curve display is going to be your 16.9 inch
infotainment system this is going to house the rest of the technology that cadillac has
integrated into the escalade such as your wireless apple carplay and android auto staying connected
is very important but keeping your devices charged and ready to go is just as important with that in
mind cadillac has integrated wireless charging as well as multiple usb and usbc ports throughout the
cabin including up here in the front all the way back to the third row of seating
having crisp clear audio can make or break a road trip we all know this so with that in mind
cadillac has integrated an akg studio 19 speaker sound system that comes standard on the escalade
say you want to upgrade especially on the platinum models you can get a 36 speaker sound system
we all know the struggle of trying to talk to someone in the third row of seats when you're
up here in the front cadillac has integrated an intercom system so you can easily buzz back there
while you're driving give them whatever message you want to and they can respond back to you so
gone are the days of having to turn around to try to talk to people or yelling across the second row
cadillac has integrated super cruise capabilities within the cadillac escalade supercruise is
cadillac's semi-autonomous driving system nowadays people are looking to have everything customized
to exactly their liking cadillac has taken this to heart and has integrated where now your key can be
programmed to have whatever driver settings you want when you walk up to your cadillac
and get inside that means that you can have one setting and the person with the second key can
have another one and whichever one gets in the escalade using their key their settings will be
ready and waiting for them adding on to this there also is an ambient lighting feature within the
escalade where you can choose different lighting options to come on when you get in your escalade
or just when you're driving down the road at night time there's around 26 different lighting options
that you can choose from including a variety of different colors to set your mood and to make
your driving experience truly elevated we hope you enjoyed this walk around of the cadillac escalade
if you have any additional questions or you're interested in ordering one for yourself
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