COOLIS

The Escalade got detailed today... cleaned up well!

Aron9000

YES!!!!! The customer/demographic they should have been chasing after was Lexus and higher end Benz cars with a ton of power and soft rides, not BMW. People don't want small/cramped/sporty riding Cadillacs. Don't give them lame 4 cylinder and V6 engines when you have IMO the world's best V8 engines installed in your pickup/suv line. Give people that great 5.3 V8 power standard, don't even try and compete in the under $40k price range, all your sedans should be as roomy as a Camry/Accord for the entry level model. I mean Dodge sells fairly well with a big 4 door sedan, honkin V8 for more than 50k. Get some of that mojo for Cadillac with a nicer interior.

Felix

Looks great......Really can't beat that 6.0 LS.......btw there are a few brake upgrades you can do.....http://baer.com

shadow1118

i actually cannot believe how well this aged and how incredibly lucky op is finding a 1 owner. this is actually an incredibly rare find...

COOLIS

Thanks! Yes, I'm really realizing that now. My detail guy even said he hasn't come across one this clean in a long time. I'm very happy with it so far. I took it on a 300 mile trip this weekend and it really shines on the highway.

Aron9000

They really did manage to give the 2nd gen Escalade its own swagger on the outside, the styling has held up well!!! The interior, well it reminds me of my 1995 Fleetwood, really nice seats/leather, everything else was kind of meh/decent enough, really didn't have the same swagger as the outside of the car.

Still though you found an REALLY NICE one, the Escalade wasn't the same old fogie demographic who hung on to their car forever and didn't drive it like other Cadillacs. You can literally trip over sub 50k mile/pristine 1980's/90's/00's Cadillacs like the Brougham, Deville, Seville. Escalades were usually traded in by their first owners after a few years and then saw indifferent care/abuse by their later owners.

sdls

the interior is still better than the first gen Escalade though!

Toys4RJill

‘nice pics.

COOLIS

Did my value just go up? Lol 😂

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

something i've noticed about this escalade is for a giant vehicle there's really not much second row leg room!

SW17LS

Haha, yours is not whatever that mystical blue color is called lol

This was an issue with big GM SUVs for a LONG time, this has just not been improved in the latest platform, but the many times I have ridden in Escalades and Tahoes and such as livery vehicles I have always been amazed by how cramped they are in the second row.

AJT123

That has a honkin’ 6 liter V8 with 345hp.

They’re not slow.

Congrats!

Och

iTrader: (3)

Not only that, but the bottom cushion of the rear seat is much higher than the front seat, so you have this weird tall sitting position, it feels weird and not very comfortable.

mmarshall

In the auto industry, that is what is known as "Tier" or "Theater" seating, which is purposely done to help shorter persons see forward better....and not have to stare at the back of the front seats for hours at a time on long trips. In some vehicles, it can compromise rear headroom, but vehicles of this size usually have very tall roofs to start wth.

Aron9000

Yeah when I was a limo driver part time 10-12 years ago, noticed the Expedition and Navigator long models had a lot more room for the 2nd and 3rd row seats than the GMC and Cadillac Escalades(all long wheelbase models) we also had in our fleet. Will say the GM trucks drove/steered/handled like a lot smaller car, the Fords never let you forget you were piloting a barge but did ride nicer.