I actually really like these, my biggest guilty pleasure car. But, I just can’t imagine spending that much for an Escalade when I could buy an ever-so-slightly used Cayenne Turbo for the same or less, sometimes even a lot less. And it will handle better, have a better interior, have an infotainment system with an…

Would this be a good place to rant against airbag warnings?

What is going on in the center that is being saved by using the vague feeling crappy column shift? More room for cup holders and big macs??
The dial shift Jaguar created has already been stolen by chrysler, so why doesn’t GM copy it? Or make their own using buttons, or use a very small electronic shifter that can be…

GM happened up there. People will continue to try to convince everyone that this is more than a dressed up tahoe, but that is ALL it is. GM doesn’t get it and they NEVER will.
The cannot make a genuinely nice car, they can only see what people criticize about their cars and praise about other cars and try to copy that.…

Not always the case. You can option out a Tahoe for pretty close to an escalade. The Tahoe doesn't have quite the same stigma though. Which I think is a good thing.

Cheap plastic, cheap plastic everywhere.

Dear, dear car companies. Volume does not travel horizontally.

So much room for activities! Thank you column shifter!

Its impressive for sure,but at 90k its a hard sell to me now that the (still) identical Suburban/Yukon/Tahoe triplets are just as nice when you option them the same and come out cheaper. I’ll wait a year or two and get one for 35k. Escalades always take huge deprecation hits.

Range Rovers commute between the gas station and the repair shop, with an occasional stop at a bank. That is not Cadillac’s competition.

What other USDM vehicles have a column shiftier still besides the other GM full size SUVs? Seems hilariously antiquated given then image and price.

If I’m reading him correctly the issue isn’t the column shifter concept (which I am also very excited about) but that the shifter itself looks cheap, in this specific instance. For a $100k car you’d expect it to be made out of a higher quality material; this looks like the same shifter that was in my parents’ 1992…

90k and the interior is beautiful until you hit the windows.

An electronic column shifter would be my solution. That big chunk of mechanical shifting they have on the column probably has 24 inches of radial movement to go from Park to Drive. Or a center console shifter would be nice like what is in the majority of SUVs.

Sounds like someone needs to read about Doug Demuro’s bills on his Land Rover lol

For $90K I’d expect them to give me a better shifter that doesn’t look like an antique hand drill

By the time that the F-35 can fire its gun and carry live amo and not need to be repainted and can fly in rain (2030 i think is the schedule) By that time drones will be far better than any human pilot and cost far less.

Counter-counterpoint: There’s your adventure, right there, snapping the throttle cable. And in an Alfa, do we really think the electrical system will be more reliable than a length of high stress cable? The throttle might go and take the headlights with it, not to mention Dean Martin singing his greatest hits.

The law isn’t based on a judge’s personal experiences...

No. I'm not-yet-thirty, with training as both a gunsmith and a watchmaker. BMW M3 (e36) with euro swap, no kids (thank the flying spaghetti monster), and I usually wear an Accutron 214 or a Seiko SKX007 modded with an escapement that I built myself. I'm also a former Marine. I only own one single Rolex and rarely…