2021 Cadillac Escalade
02-20-20, 08:02 AM
#151
Lexus Fanatic
If case anyone hasn't seen this hilarious bit on the original Escalade.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WL...N10tCE-PdoD1Xd
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WL...N10tCE-PdoD1Xd
The video doesn't say, but it looks like Top Gear's Richard Hammond.
Part of what he said about the original Escalade was correct (garbage-interior, battleship-weight, Push-and-Pray brakes). But full-sized, truck-based GM products have improved tremendously since then...a significant part of that improvement came with the 2007 redesign of the interior trim and the formerly-lousy brakes. The references to senior citizens and Florida, though, IMO, were uncalled for......he himself (as with the rest of us) isn't getting any younger, and he himself will be old and retired some day. He also made (indirect) racial references to it being a Ghetto machine, which, though not entirely false, is far overblown as a stereotype.
02-20-20, 08:14 AM
#152
The video doesn't say, but it looks like Top Gear's Richard Hammond.
Part of what he said about the original Escalade was correct (garbage-interior, battleship-weight, Push-and-Pray brakes). But full-sized, truck-based GM products have improved tremendously since then...a significant part of that improvement came with the 2007 redesign of the interior trim and the formerly-lousy brakes. The references to senior citizens and Florida, though, IMO, were uncalled for......he himself (as with the rest of us) isn't getting any younger, and he himself will be old and retired some day. He also made (indirect) racial references to it being a Ghetto machine, which, though not entirely false, is far overblown as a stereotype.
Part of what he said about the original Escalade was correct (garbage-interior, battleship-weight, Push-and-Pray brakes). But full-sized, truck-based GM products have improved tremendously since then...a significant part of that improvement came with the 2007 redesign of the interior trim and the formerly-lousy brakes. The references to senior citizens and Florida, though, IMO, were uncalled for......he himself (as with the rest of us) isn't getting any younger, and he himself will be old and retired some day. He also made (indirect) racial references to it being a Ghetto machine, which, though not entirely false, is far overblown as a stereotype.
02-20-20, 08:34 AM
#154
Lexus Champion
Oy, that Escalade touchscreen.
I work with displays and we go to extensive efforts to eliminate glare and reflections, so a picture like that gives me a heart attack...
I work with displays and we go to extensive efforts to eliminate glare and reflections, so a picture like that gives me a heart attack...
02-20-20, 09:07 AM
#155
Racer
That looks really nice... but yes the glare does seem excessive
02-20-20, 10:04 AM
#158
Lexus Champion
From left to right, the screens measure 7.0 inches, 14.0 inches, and 16.9 inches, with the center 14.0-inch screen serving as the instrument cluster. It's the only non-touchscreen display of the three.
02-20-20, 10:07 AM
#159
Lexus Champion
If case anyone hasn't seen this hilarious bit on the original Escalade.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WL...N10tCE-PdoD1Xd
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WL...N10tCE-PdoD1Xd
The video doesn't say, but it looks like Top Gear's Richard Hammond.
Part of what he said about the original Escalade was correct (garbage-interior, battleship-weight, Push-and-Pray brakes). But full-sized, truck-based GM products have improved tremendously since then...a significant part of that improvement came with the 2007 redesign of the interior trim and the formerly-lousy brakes. The references to senior citizens and Florida, though, IMO, were uncalled for......he himself (as with the rest of us) isn't getting any younger, and he himself will be old and retired some day. He also made (indirect) racial references to it being a Ghetto machine, which, though not entirely false, is far overblown as a stereotype.
Part of what he said about the original Escalade was correct (garbage-interior, battleship-weight, Push-and-Pray brakes). But full-sized, truck-based GM products have improved tremendously since then...a significant part of that improvement came with the 2007 redesign of the interior trim and the formerly-lousy brakes. The references to senior citizens and Florida, though, IMO, were uncalled for......he himself (as with the rest of us) isn't getting any younger, and he himself will be old and retired some day. He also made (indirect) racial references to it being a Ghetto machine, which, though not entirely false, is far overblown as a stereotype.
And...yes, about Hammond. He and Jeremy Clarkson, they couldn't be more snotty towards Americans and the USA. Though I think it's envy. They clearly can't appreciate what something like that second-gen Escalade is for.
Hand me some tiny thing with 3 cylinders and I'll hate it and complain about it but still appreciate that's an ideal car for driving around London. Gas is like $6 over there and in Europe roads are narrow.
Pigs would fly before they'd ever get it. That was a solid, very powerful truck. Here with our massive country and huge roads, cheap fuel, insane amount of outdoorsy people with boats to tow (unlike there where it's cold and rainy 90% of the time), the Escalade fit the bill quite nicely.
02-20-20, 10:12 AM
#160
Lexus Champion
To be clear, I would define glare to be bright light, whether provided by or reflected off the screen.
02-20-20, 10:47 AM
#161
Lexus Fanatic
iTrader: (20)
^^^ no driver is going to be viewing the screen from an angle like that so i suspect those reflections are irrelevant.
02-20-20, 11:01 AM
#162
That's the second gen Escalade, but yeah. The first one was so bad and rushed it might as well not have counted as it, lol.
The second gen Escalade he's driving there did have a bad interior but other than that was a solid truck and a massive success. It had the big 6.0 with 345hp which made it a beast. Nothing it competed with came close to catching it for power, and it won comparison tests.
And...yes, about Hammond. He and Jeremy Clarkson, they couldn't be more snotty towards Americans and the USA. Though I think it's envy. They clearly can't appreciate what something like that second-gen Escalade is for.
Hand me some tiny thing with 3 cylinders and I'll hate it and complain about it but still appreciate that's an ideal car for driving around London. Gas is like $6 over there and in Europe roads are narrow.
Pigs would fly before they'd ever get it. That was a solid, very powerful truck. Here with our massive country and huge roads, cheap fuel, insane amount of outdoorsy people with boats to tow (unlike there where it's cold and rainy 90% of the time), the Escalade fit the bill quite nicely.
The second gen Escalade he's driving there did have a bad interior but other than that was a solid truck and a massive success. It had the big 6.0 with 345hp which made it a beast. Nothing it competed with came close to catching it for power, and it won comparison tests.
And...yes, about Hammond. He and Jeremy Clarkson, they couldn't be more snotty towards Americans and the USA. Though I think it's envy. They clearly can't appreciate what something like that second-gen Escalade is for.
Hand me some tiny thing with 3 cylinders and I'll hate it and complain about it but still appreciate that's an ideal car for driving around London. Gas is like $6 over there and in Europe roads are narrow.
Pigs would fly before they'd ever get it. That was a solid, very powerful truck. Here with our massive country and huge roads, cheap fuel, insane amount of outdoorsy people with boats to tow (unlike there where it's cold and rainy 90% of the time), the Escalade fit the bill quite nicely.
02-20-20, 11:01 AM
#163
Lexus Champion
I don't agree at all. Correct that this isn't the view from the driver, but you don't have those kinds of reflections from the front right seat and not have any from the front left seat. I even get them in my GS with the sunroof open, and the GS doesn't have even a quarter of that glossy area.
02-20-20, 11:11 AM
#164
Lexus Fanatic
And actually Hammond loves American cars lol
That Escalade was a pretty crappy truck.
That Escalade was a pretty crappy truck.