First Drive: 2007 Cadillac Escalade AWD

[91 s-10baja]

July 4, 2006
First Drive:
2007 Cadillac Escalade AWD

2007 Cadillac Escalade AWD. Click image to enlarge
Review and phtos by Laurance Yap
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The Cadillac Escalade was not a vehicle I was predisposed to like. Nor, did it seem, was it a vehicle that some teenagers in Mississauga were predisposed to like either. You would have thought that these young guys outside a local high school, who probably have seen a rap video or two, would love the Escalade, with its 22-inch chrome wheels and its big side air extractors and sparkling pearlescent-white paint job. You would have thought they would have fawned all over its dark tinted glass, its three-storey front headlight design and its LED rear lamps and its dinner-plate-size Cadillac logos.

But no. Instead, one of them launched a firecracker straight at the Escalade as it drove through an intersection. Hey!




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[PenguinPIE]

awsome pictures!

[mgescuro]

What is up with the steering column? Not only does it have the same old tilt mechanism as GM has been using on its trucks for years - five positions with three of them being pretty much useless as they're pointed right at the ceiling or towards the ground - but the wheel actually is angled towards the driver's door.

WHAT????
What does he mean by that?? I know GM cars had an issue with the steering wheel that's not centered to the driver's seating position... but angled towards the door????

[TuffG929]

I just want to say that I, like a lot of people my age, like the Escalade for it's in-your-face look and over-the-top philosophy. Not becase of the fact that Ludacris drives one.

[Boiler]

The sales for these Escalades should stay the same as they have in the past, due to the fact the average Escalade buyer could really give a **************** about gas prices. This is definitely a good thing. I enjoy seeing those STOCK 22's on the road!