coolsaber

I agree if your referring to the 70-80s when Japan was bringing their first mass market imports. By the 90s Toyota, and even the germans were benchmarking at the industry standard and then some in dedicated testing facilities around the globe.

EDIT: The only reason issue however with this is, have you benchmarked your individual LS to say that same MY German competitors AC?

apples to oranges at that point

Toys4RJill

That is a beautiful interior for its time. The steering wheel holds up well to today.

coolsaber

For a moment I thought you were a detailing guru, that interior looks factory fresh...realizing later stock photo lol

AJT123

Hah! Definitely not. Though I was going to go out and take a picture at first but this was easier.

In mine the leather is worn and it's old but actually it still looks like a "nice car" inside, as dated as the design is. You can tell it wasn't a cheap vehicle, still.

coolsaber

Did you ever consider doing the Escalade mods? I remember Stacey David back in the 00s convert a Yukon to escalade within a couple of hours thanks to interchangeable parts

AJT123

That's funny you say that because I agree totally about the steering wheel. I still like the design today, whereas my LS430s is so huge it's like a bus (but it doesn't bother me, it's beautiful with the wood). My '03 Yukon the first year with that new wheel. The older one definitely looked dated.

AJT123

Nah, it has everything the Escalade has other than wood bits, etc. Same great stereo, same fancy features.

The only thing I want is the 6.0 V8 from that Escalade, but those came with with AWD and lost the real 4WD.

The 5.3 is still plenty adequate, though.

SW17LS

The interior of the Ram trucks is pretty universally praised, has won a bunch of awards, etc.

AJT123

I think said Ram has a type of wood trim that's literally not found in any other vehicle.

It's impressive as all get out inside, that's for sure.

Toys4RJill

I think the suspensions are different?

AJT123

It did have the fancy shocks.

4TehNguyen

iTrader: (1)

no idea why we are talking about 10-15 year old truck interiors?

Which is funny because the redneck interior Ram beat both the X7 and S series as luxury vehicle of the year for Cars.com. Not sure what that means for the Escalade. I see nothing revolutionary about the Escalade interior other than the OLED. Navigator's seating still looks much better than the Escalades. Escalades seats look quite generic. Sure it gained a buncha space going IRS instead of solid rear axle, but the Expedition has been doing that for many years already.

https://www.cars.com/awards/2020/lux...r-of-the-year/

Och

iTrader: (3)

Pick up trucks are purely an American phenomenon and only appeal to a certain segment of US population. They are often regarded as "redneck status symbols" and not very popular outside of rural areas and suburbs. They do not sell outside of the US at all. Both the Escalade and the Navigator used to be complete junk, but its obviously Cadillac and Lincoln want them to become competitive with other world class luxury SUVs.

I particularly like the new Escalade interior because it very much mimics BMW interiors - even the **** looks similar to the i-Drive system.

AJT123

Escalade will slaughter the Navi in sales, like it always has.

Just watch.

GM owns this segment, much to the chagrin of GM haters on here..

mmarshall

^^^ The redneck image is an outdated stereotype. You find pickups just about everywhere now except in some of the inner cities.....and, even there, they are sometimes used by handy persons and contractors.