I am Kelsey Mays for cars dot com we're here at the 2013
LA Auto Show looking at a nameplate that should be familiar to all those
hollywood A and B listers
even the C and D listers who wanna put up with a big car payment so they see more
like the A&B listers
anyway this is the redesign Cadillac Escalade a combination
GM's k2 truck platform the product the Chevy Silverado
the suburban the Tahoe GMC Sierra and Yukon
this is the Big Daddy at the mall let's take a look
at the redesigned king of bling like before the Escalade has
a very angular face a very blocky kinda shape to it
LED headlights are up front there's LED light piping there you come around the
back
there's LED light piping up and down the tail here on this extended like
Escalade yes be there's also going to be a regular
length Escalade the Escalade EXT and the Escalade Hybrid both offered with the
previous generation
are now gone now Kadlec says it used aluminum
in the tailgate use aluminum into her to say wait but this SUV still comes in at
just over fifty six hundred pounds and base form not exactly
a light vehicle their 20-inch alloy wheels are standard
if you really wanna up the bling bling factor twenty-two's are available
interior recalls that have be Catholic XTS full-size sedan
a player real wood trim kelex as this isn't the fake stuff
and Kel excuses to not stand for cat like user experiences got capacitive
buttons here
down the center stack and controls and also as an eight-inch touchscreen
appear a queue bitter controversy among our editors
some like it's happening feedback others myself included which they just put in
real buttons here there's a 12-point 3-inch display in place
a regular gauges up here and Catholic says
that the front seat have an additional four inches Allegra two inches of
headroom so there should be plenty a room appear
I don't really know that i buy that necessarily I'm about six feet tall and
this is where it's at the seats all the way back I can even use a little bit
more space
let's check out the second and third rows plenty of headroom decent leg room
and a reasonably high seating position in the second row unfortunately in this
car at the outer show the second row
seats don't appear to be able to move forward or backwards although they do
work line
a few degrees materials quality in the second row appears to stay consistent
with what we've seen up front plenty of stitching along the doors even
sitting all the way down a long this'll area here
I underneath the rear climate controls the reason why the seats
don't go forward and backward is because they tumble in this car yet the other
show
to power tumbling feature makes it pretty easy to get back to the third row
which actually has a reasonable sitting position there for adults
reasonably high off the ground good leg room for third row
Kadlec says the ESP the extended like escalate has
about 10 more inches a rear leg room in the third row
purses the regular length Escalade which we haven't been in but if thats
ten-inches' it's not going to be real pretty yeah and the third row the ESV is
about thirty-nine cubic feet up cargo volume:
down a little bit person the nearly 46 cubic feet in
the last ESP you follow the seats down pretty easy with these buttons here
in the cargo area that fall down both the third and the second rose
looking at about a hundred and twenty cubic feet up maximum
Carter room but 94 cubic feet a maxim car in the regular escalate those
numbers are down about 15 cubic feet versus the previous generation though
although the escalates b8 makes the same 6.2
leaders as the outgoing generation GM says it's been completely overhauled
force powers now for 120 with 460 pounds feet or
big increases versus last year's 402 horsepower
417 pound-feet of torque still the Escalade employs a six-speed automatic
transmission
GM has been dabbling lately in eight-speed automatic as we've seen
optional in the new CTS fuel economy numbers are still pending so we don't
know how all that will pan out so stay tuned for more news
closer to the cars on sale date in spring 2014