G. David Felt

I would agree with you in regards to the GMC and Chevy as the sides are almost identical, but Cadillac did stand out from the other two with their wheel wells and the cladding at the bottom of the doors.

@Robert Hall Thank you for posting those images as it also clearly points out how far the Escalade has FAILED on this release for a UNIQUE Exterior compared to the GMC or Chevrolet brand. Now it truly does show just a rebadge job on the outside, so 1990's. What a shame that GM cannot seem to understand that Luxury needs to truly stand apart from the rest of the family. Here is what the family looked like in 2006. Platinum for Cadillac, Denali for GMC and Z71 for Chevrolet. All far more distinct than the current group now.

This to me is a major problem with the new Escalade: One I hate the bling around the windows, reflects, just tacky, such a Baby Boomer thing. As has been pointed out, the C pillar is a BIG MISTAKE! Keeping it auto colored with the caddy logo would have been fine, not this pasted on black with chrome angle crap. Being that I use the space often and haul plenty of people, I need the ESV and WHY the Bunker look? Hate that the last window is up what looks like another 2 inches, so smaller, less vision out and all the windows look smaller than the outgoing 2020 model. HATE the BUNKER look, failure in design and I DOUBT it really adds that much safety to the auto's for the occupants. To ME, the B pillar looks much thicker and wider than past Escalades B pillars. Side view shows the Brick front end to be just that a FAILURE of a slab of ugly with far less sweeping design for slipping through the wind.

Yes truly better than Tesla, but that Nose. Just as Hideous as Tesla.

Seems we can see the Escalade ESV version here at Cadillac Visualizer tool. Too funny, no need to wait till April. https://visualizer.cadillac.com/?carline=escalade&modelYear=2021&brand=cadillac&language=en&country=US&channel=b2c You can choose from eight exterior colors, four wheel options, and three interior choices.

Tesla has had the worlds largest charging network to date with 756 charging stations installed and setup over the last 8 years. Everyone is aware that due to Dieselgate or the VW settlement with the government, Electrify America was created to install electric charging stations across America. Within the last 20 months they have made astonishing progress and on Monday February 3rd announced their 400th Charging station. These stations being able to on average deliver 150 kWh of charge to auto's with many of the locations able to charge at 350 kWh which is almost double the fastest charge one can get at a Tesla V3 supercharger. Currently Electrify America is on target to have 800 Stations by December 2021 which means it could potentially pass Tesla for Charging locations in the near future. Coast to Coast charging network. On top of this as Shell, Mobil and Exxon add pay to charge systems at their gas stations this will expand options for where one would charge. Future looks very bright indeed. https://media.electrifyamerica.com/en-us/releases/90

@dwightlooi Dwight, please look at this and give us your thoughts on this story. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1126963_gasoline-direct-injection-tech-might-not-be-worth-it-study-suggests Very intersting read on why Gas direct injection is not worth it.

Florida is looking to become the 26th state that taxes EVs under the guise that they do not pay their share in road tax at the pump. With EVs making up only .06% of auto sales in the state, clearly there is other forces at work here and sure enough in looking at this you find big oil and the Koch brothers spending millions to get this in place to stop EVs. Crazy how they fear EVs. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/floridas-proposed-ev-tax-raises-questions-of-fairness-and-corporate-influence/ Washington state just finished a year long study of which 5,000 citizens took part in having a GPS module added to their auto to monitor mileage and most found they paid less tax than they did with a tax bill on the gas as it was the most accurate but over 60% said at the end they did not like the Government having a GPS tracker on their auto. My thought is that Mileage and weight of the auto taken into account is the best way to tax auto's over a gas tax. The way you get around the GPS or any tracking module is have yearly safety inspections which we do not have here and when they check to insure the auto is safe for the road, they record your mileage and you pay the mileage tax at the time you pay your renewal license. What do others think on how we need to revamp our taxation on auto's? We seem to be growing toll roads at the same time that efficiency of auto's reduces gas tax revenue that is supposed to support road maintenance / replacement costs.

Thanks Dwight as always, Yes I have ridden Harley's and not a fan of it. Just thought the Motus V4 was an interesting engine that is supposed to be balanced. I figure like you pointed out that they engineered it with a better balance than the basic cut a V8 in half. Love the engineering input on the firing that is good to know and understand as is the boost part.

I honestly think GM was internally sold a lets reduce our ICE engine options and cost by doing a global 3 cylinder engine till our EVs are ready. Yet so far their 3 cylinder engines that I have seen are all noisy, rough, totally unrefined. Cheapassery is the perfect term for them. I honestly would go with smaller 4 bangers than go 3 and keep them going till you have EVs ready to sell. Based on losses by both Ford and GM, I wonder about these companies long term as other companies start to get production going on their auto's and do not have the legacy complaints that these two companies are dragging with them. Something to ponder. ?

Seems even in China, they do not like 3 Cylinder engines as Chinese have said they are unrefined, noisy and not what they want. GM is now working to get certified 4 cylinder motors for their product line in China after going 3 cylinder only and loosing market share to Toyota and VW / Mercedes / BMW that kept 4 cylinder and offered 3 cylinder as a reduced cost option that has little up take. GM of old here not having a solid product to offer and not a ready marketing plan to deal with the cylinder count issue. ? https://www.autonews.com/china/gm-rolls-back-radical-plan-offer-only-3-cylinder-engines-some-china-cars-report-says Seems Subaru due to higher than expected warranty costs has a 42% fall in profits and Mazda has a 76% profit fall. WOW ? https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/subaru-profit-falls-42-higher-warranty-costs https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/mazda-profit-slumps-76-currency-hits

Rally Car Lovers Rejoice, RJ let the beans spill in an interview with Autoblog. Seems the 3rd auto from Rivian will be a Rally Inspired electric car. RJ says they will use all the technology that is going into their truck and SUV in a lite weight rally inspired car that folks will love. Based on these spy pictures it looks to be a hatchback, Autoblog says reminds them of a Mazda 3. Not much else is known and since then RJ has been mum on it when ever anyone brings it up. They are focused on the Truck and SUV along with their Ford and Amazon obligations. One has to figure they are also still working this skunk project for future production, but do not want to take the excitement off their first to market products. Imagine a rally car with a 400, 500 or 600 mile battery pack, AWD. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/12/rivian-rally-inspired-electric-car/#slide-1294254

Amazon just spilled the beans on their Rivian based EV Delivery vans. Cool part is the Rivian platform is very stretchable and depending on the climate of where the van will be used it will either be FWD or AWD and come in lengths equal to regular or extended length delivery ICE vans and even have an extended length version that is more like a Crew cab pickup with 8 foot box length even though it is a van. There will be 3 different batteries used depending on size and climate to insure plenty of power and Alexa will be integrated into the vans. Very cool read. https://www.slashgear.com/amazon-just-spilled-more-details-on-its-rivian-electric-delivery-vans-04608383/

I respect and understand where you are coming from. For a guy my size, this is usually a very appealing auto to me and one that does not scare me to spend $100,000 on. But with that said, this new Escalade even with the awesome updated interior fails to the point that I would NOT want to drive one looking like this. It just blends into the background for me, Lincoln is far more Luxury looking than this. This is Blah just like the Germand CUVs.

Awesome to hear, that does make a big difference in road trips. Thanks for the info.

Thank you for the reply Dwight, always enjoy your view point. I was thinking of the Motus Company that took the Corvett V8 engine as a starting point and created their V4 motor for motorcycles and as a crate motor at 365hp for auto replacements. https://motusmotorcycles.com/americanv4 Pretty interesting engineered engine and your right, it does need a bit more engineering work than my quick response of take the V8 and cut it in half, but this motor I have always liked. Motus V4.

Does it have the finger knobs on the back side? My Escalade and SS both have that knobby back side that allows the fingers to have a good grip without gripping hard. As such, when I last drove my old suburban before putting up on blocks I was surprised how much tighter I had to grip the steering wheel.

New Escalade also looks like it is more bunker like with where the crease is on the side body. Not good as too much like the bunker camaro which is a failure.

Now you have my strong opinion of why this Escalade, XT-6 and every other cadillac that uses this same Roman inspired, Chevrolet Headlight style will FAIL for them! This is actually true, they are moving to a global standard as Europe requires pedestrian impact regs that the old weird corner wrap around headlights did not meet. China has also implemented the same pedestrian regs. The US is Failing in leadership as we no longer lead in safety so now the auto industry will follow the stricter European regs that also meet the US. End result is some very piss poor and poorly designed headlights, front ends, etc. IMHO.

Welcome back Horse, you been missed! Same here, when you have either a large tank or a very efficient small auto, you still need to get out and stretch the legs. Half tank is how i do all road trips as I get 500 miles on a tank in my Escalade, so might as well stretch at the 250 mile mark. Then always full tank so no need to worry where the next gas station is when driving in new areas.

Wack a V8 in half and offer a quality V4, no need for those straight 4 bangers!

OUCH Fords loss reported yesterday.

Pathertic failure of the front end. Such a shame. What a waste. My web site still is counting down. LOL What a joke GM. Yet they already show it on Instagram Interior is awesome! The only positive thing about it.

Yes, this is a Superior headlight assembly and they should have stayed with this. Using the same Chevrolet style on the XT-6 and Escalade cheapens it up. Maybe it is Enchanted for Robert, he will see before us.

@USA-1 @Robert Hall According to their Instagram account, there is no live stream, will be released in waves at 9pm across the US. Very weird but here is the response they are posting to people asking if it is live stream.