Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me Cadillac Escalade EXT? Reviewing the SUV

In the beginning of last year Cadillac Escalade EXT was announced at Los Angeles. In November the selling company started. The market of SUV is very hard to survive in. In the USA the leaders of this segment are Cadillac and Lincoln, which presented expensive motors. Cadillac Escalade is a choice of many celebrities, which breathed new life into the old brand. For Ford this function is executed by Lincoln Navigator. The company considers that a buyer EXT will have a few differences from a proprietor simple Escalade - it is also well well-to-do, but 5 years younger, with hardly lower social status and in general more active and closer to earth. Correlation of men and women among the proprietors of Escalade is an almost parity - 55:45, and for Escalade EXT it will make 80:20. It is amazing and tells much about the car.

Design

"Addition" of EXT to the name of the car is the first letters of word "extend" (to develop, prolong...). "Prolonging" is possible for basket or a cargo bay. For this purpose there is a well-knit panel, dissociating passenger space from freight one. At different positions it is able to transport either five (the length is 1600 mm) or two, but here in "prolonged" basket it is possible to put an object measuring 1210õ2430 mm - at the closed back side. From above a cargo bay is closed by a hard three-sectional panel.

The style of EXT is style of imperturbable man. The aggressive design of forehand was created due to the principle anymore - better. A wide front grate, large rectangular headlights, footboards and cargo bay make it to look strict and direct. Thus a car fully corresponds to unique style of Cadillac, with new symbolism and general monochrome completeness, including wide back bars connecting the passenger and freight spaces.

Folding partition and removable back glass divide salon and luggage rack. Up to par length of auto makes five feet and three inches. But there is only one person in the car, back seats can be easily built forward, the partition is set, and in a luggage rack it is easily possible to place the sheet of plywood 1.2x2.5 meter and here reliably to close a luggage rack.

Besides that you can take off the back glass and set him on a middle partition. It is thus possible to get the opened basket in which it is possible to transport overall loads such as a refrigerator.

Except of easily regulated cargo bay, which is the basic innovation, there are the other things that make the car unique as well as at Ford Explorer Sport Track, at EXT the luggage rack is made from composite materials, but not from a metal. General Motors named this unhesitating and non-rusting material PRO-TEC and it is utilized not only for making of luggage rack but also for a middle partition and postern.

Engine

There is a very slight difference between pickup and off-road car talking about technical part. The frame construction, engine of V8 type, 6 liter and 345 rpm, powered 4-step gear box, permanent complete drive, controlled pendant, complete set of stabilizing systems makes Cadillac Escalade EXT to be a totally super technical solution.

Brakes

Both front and back brakes are of disk type. The scale of disk is equal to 7x18. The size of tires is P265/65R18.

Features

Cadillac is famous for being loved by celebrities of all times, for example Jimmy Durant, Bing Crosby and Roy Rodgers. And for famous Elvis Priestly collecting Cadillac was a kind of mania.

Performance

The highest speed is equal to 174 km/h, accelerating to 100 km/h takes 8.6 sec. The expense of fuel in the city is equal to 17 liter per km and on a route it is 14. The tank is quite big 117 liters.

What critics have to say?

This car characterizes American auto philosophy of the last years in the best way: In general, the companies succeeded to create a pickup of luxurious class which necessarily will make you take a sight (with a delight or in horror which is other business). There is one more interesting detail. Due to the promotion plan, people who buy Cadillac Escalade EXT lead an active way of life; they can be sportsmen or hunters.