A Very Important Question About Cadillac's Land Yacht

The Cadillac Escalade Turns 20 — What Does The Next-gen Escalade NEED To SUCCEED?

I think we can all agree on one thing: The Cadillac Escalade, when it made its prime time debut, was a game changer.

It propelled us all down a road where large, luxury sport-utility vehicles went mainstream.
And now it's turning 20.

Hard to believe, right? Who knew back in 1999 that this vehicle would become an icon and one of the marque's most desired products?

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Yes Is The Answer

Is Cadillac's BIGGEST Problem Itself? You Have To SEE This To Believe IT . . . . .

[O]ne thing that shouldn't be overlooked is Cadillac's brand. Much like Buick, perhaps that's one of the things holding the company's products back. Why else would someone take what is, arguably, the organization's most technologically advanced product to date and apply a Landau top to it?

Just a thought, but if the company was turning our sexy and interesting vehicles, would anyone even consider doing this? Is Cadillac's image one of the BIGGEST issues holding back the American luxury icon?

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Well Done GM, Well Done

2017 Cadillac CTS-V – Four door Corvette

Yes, and it is under the hood. A place that is enriched with Corvette Z06 heart, which translates to 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 engine rated at stunning 640 horsepower and 630 pound-feet of torque. Enough to propel large sedan in 3.7 seconds to 60 mph and it could go as far as 200 mph. It is sufficient to rip apart M5 in the straight line which is 0.7 seconds behind when it comes to acceleration. Still, it is old M5, and since Merc’s E63 S AMG is 0.3 seconds faster than Caddy, new Bimmer is surely going to stick to Merc’s numbers.

The mentioned unit is paired with 8-speed automatic gearbox, which offers sublimely quick changes, and it’s also borrowed from the same source as the engine. If someone has a better source for the loan in his mind, feel free to tell us. Fuel efficiency is at, considering the situation, still acceptable 17 mpg combined.

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How Does This Help Sell Cars?

Cadillac's Opening A Pop-Up Coffee Shop
 

“Our issue is not the quality of the product,” Cadillac’s brand director Melody Lee told 

Bloomberg. “Our challenge is relevance.”

That’s Cadillac’s rationale for opening up a coffee shop on the ground floor of their office building just above TriBeCa in that weird office park zone before you get to the Holland Tunnel. Hudson Square? Whatever.

The space will open to the public on June 2nd and will have Joe Coffee, Timo Weiland clothes, art exhibits curated by Visionaire, and a custom fragrance by 12.29.

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Are The Ecto-1's 2 Of The Top 5 Most Famous Caddy's Ever?

Ghostbusters' new Ecto-1 is an oddly uninspiring '82 Caddy 

Goodbye fins and hello squared-off corners.

The Ghostbusters, or at least the movie franchise, will emerge from Hollywood's cobwebs this summer, but instead of the iconic 1959 Cadillac known as Ecto-1 that delighted big screen audiences in 1984, the new model may leave some scratching their heads.

That's because this latest Ghostbusters draws its vehicular inspiration from a decidedly less interesting period in American automobile production: the 1980s. Starring alongside Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones is a 1982 Cadillac DeVille hearse.

The studio dressed up this tired Caddy to look the part, but something's amiss. Instead of the flamboyant fins and shiny chrome, the '82 is decidedly pedestrian and uninteresting. Even in 1982, it was kind of a dull choice for luxury car buyers. There's a reason Murilee Martin deemed the '70s and '80s the "malaise era."

Built a couple of years before the original, Academy Award-winning Ghostbusters hit cinemas, the '82 DeVille represents one of Cadillac's lowest points bar the Cimarron.

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