Cadillac unveiled the all-new 2021 Escalade, absolutely redesigned with pioneering technology that upload new size to the long-lasting luxurious SUV.
Featuring one-of-a-kind, first-to-marketplace era advances together with a curved Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display screen, the primary AKG automobile audio machine and Cadillac's acclaimed Super Cruise driving force help era, the fifth-technology of Cadillac's flagship expands on its extra than two decades of segment-defining management.
"There is some thing unique approximately riding an Escalade," stated Steve Carlisle, Cadillac president. "It has the formidable presence and one-of-a-kind era to raise the exceptional and make each force sense like an occasion."
Launching withinside the 0.33 zone of 2020 in North America, the 2021 Cadillac Escalade has been absolutely redesigned to supply advanced riding dynamics and considerably extra passenger and load capacities.
"The 2021 Escalade takes its management into a brand new technology of mobility, with complete improvements which might be transformative to the riding enjoy," stated Carlisle. "It's extra than a brand new Escalade. It's a brand new enjoy."
SEE AND BE SEEN
Industry-first curved OLED show era
Escalade's enterprise-first curved OLED show gives extra than 38 inches of general diagonal show area, with two times the pixel density of a 4K television. The era supplies formidable imagery, best blacks and the most important shadeation variety of any automobile show in manufacturing today.
The machine consists of 3 displays: a 7.2-inch-diagonal contact manipulate panel driving force facts middle to the driving force's left, a 14.2-inch-diagonal cluster show at the back of the steerage wheel and a 16.nine-inch-diagonal Infotainment display screen to the driving force's right. The OLED is paper-thin, and its curvature positions the shows for optimum visibility.
The brilliant shadeation and visible fine of OLED era additionally removes the want for the common "hood" shrouding many regular in-car displays, developing a brighter and much less cluttered environment.
The Cadillac Escalade consists of numerous different superior, vision-orientated functions, together with:
- All-new, to be had Augmented Reality-enabled navigation, which makes use of stay road perspectives with directional overlays and extra to beautify riding directions.
- Surround Vision, a general characteristic that employs 4 outdoors cameras to offer a 2-megapixel bird's-eye view of the scene across the car.
- An to be had Trailering Integration Package, which gives as much as 9 digital digicam perspectives (together with rear digital digicam guidelines) to help less complicated hitching. The package deal additionally consists of an incorporated trailer brake controller and a trailering app that gives trailer profiles, tire strain and temperature monitoring, and an Extended Side Blind Zone Alert.
- Rear Camera Mirror, an to be had characteristic that streams a rear-going through digital digicam view at the traditional inner reflect display screen.
- Night Vision, an to be had characteristic that makes use of infrared era to beautify ahead visibility, together with detection of pedestrians and huge animals, projected at the middle cluster show.
- New rear-seat leisure functions a couple of 12.6-inch-diagonal unbiased contact shows with navigation in addition to streaming functionality to play games, song and films via HDMI and USB inputs. The displays also can reflect Android smartphones. Additionally, destination "suggestions" can be "sent" through rear passengers to the the front navigation display screen, for the driving force to just accept or decline.
Be seen: Escalade presence
"Escalade has usually made a formidable assertion that asserts you've got arrived," stated Therese Pinazzo, outdoors layout manager. "We have up to date that assertion for a brand new technology, including layers of sophistication. The purpose changed into to create a brand new Escalade this is unmistakable at a glance, after which rewards you with extra info on the second one or maybe 0.33 read."
Escalade continues Cadillac's signature vertical lights element, however the new interpretation provides a sleek, horizontal headlamp to enhance a broad, assured stance. The tall, vertical, rear mild signature keeps however provides deep 3-dimensional layers and finishes with designated etching. Twenty-two-inch wheels are general and improve Escalade's formidable appearance.
The brought layers of element amplify to particular trim factors and grille textures. Escalade will provide Cadillac's Sport trim for the primary time, presenting a black mesh grille and black trim throughout the outdoors. Luxury and Premium Luxury fashions show off a brilliant Galvano finish, even as Platinum fashions pinnacle the variety, with particular indoors and outdoors info.
Interior Design
Cadillac Escalade's new indoors layout is closely motivated through Cadillac's Escala idea car - a layout that still debuted an OLED show - and breaks new floor with the primary-ever Gideon Whisper Beige trim mixture. This high-overall performance, high-style to be had indoors is targeted on a custom-woven material that provides a brand new stage of fashion and atmosphere to the Escalade's cabin.
"The expectancies and dreams of Escalade clients are elements all of us withinside the Cadillac layout studio unequivocally understands," stated Phil Kucera, indoors layout manager. "This allowed us to attain extra tiers of intensity and element than Escalade has ever had before."
The new curved OLED show is the center-piece of the indoors, permitting designers to combine and customise the whole environment, instead of genuinely putting a general square display screen right into a traditional tool panel. The end result is a very fresh, incorporated cabin appearance that seamlessly blends the era with hand made info.
A blend of digital controls and bodily switches provide intuitive operation of car functions. The OLED show consists of contact-display screen manipulate for the middle show, even as the indoors additionally consists of a full-characteristic rotary dial controller and steerage wheel controls. Additional touches consist of chrome steel speaker grilles, complicated piping at the door panels and ambient lights with a extensive variety of shadeation choices.
The indoors is in addition prominent through no much less than 8 shadeation and trim choices, which consist of particular seat designs, with custom perforation and quilting patterns.
HEAR AND BE HEARD
Sound creates and heightens experiences. In the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, that experience is accelerated with the expert studio sound of AKG audio systems.
Industry-first AKG audio era
Known international for microphones and headphones utilized by main musicians in recording studios and stay venues, AKG has introduced its audio era to the automobile enterprise for the primary time, solely for Cadillac.
The end result is the Escalade's to be had AKG Studio Reference machine, 36 audio system powered through 3 amplifiers that supply 28 channels, imparting a listening enjoy this is astonishingly crisp and immersive. A general AKG Studio machine consists of 19 audio system and a huge enclosed subwoofer, powered through a 14-channel amplifier.
In addition to its crisp sound output, AKG era permits extra superior functions withinside the Escalade, together with:
- Studio 3-D Surround creates expert-stage sound via the multichannel audio machine, with strategically located audio system finely tuned to supply sound like being with the artist withinside the recording studio. Additional audio system withinside the headliner assist create a 360-diploma immersive listening enjoy.
- Conversation Enhancement. Vehicle verbal exchange is greater for the front and rear passengers as their voices are captured through embedded microphones and reproduced withinside the specific area the usage of the 36-speaker machine.
- Audio Rendering for navigation. Turn-through-flip navigation commands are extra intuitive with audio activates coming solely from the audio machine's left- or right-hand audio system, with the activate transferring closer to the driving force because the flip receives closer.
- Front Passenger Volume Control. The the front-seat passenger can take fee of his or her private audio enjoy, with a committed quantity manipulate for every the front seat (protected with the Studio Reference machine).
MOVE AND BE MOVED
Confident overall performance with superior chassis technology, a extra spacious indoors and main driving force-help technology coalesce to provide an greater riding enjoy.
Super Cruise
The 2021 Cadillac Escalade enters the destiny of mobility because the first considerable SUV with Super Cruise driving force help era. It permits hands-unfastened riding on extra than 200,000 miles of well matched highways withinside the United States and Canada, the usage of LiDAR map data, high-precision GPS, a brand new driving force interest machine and a community of cameras and radar sensors.
The 2021 Escalade functions an greater Super Cruise machine with numerous new functions and improvements, together with computerized lane alternate. Automated lane alternate will permit the driving force to direct the machine to carry out a unmarried lane alternate the usage of the flip sign to suggest the path of the favored move.
Super Cruise's driving force interest machine allows maintain drivers engaged through detecting and signaling whilst drivers want to pay extra interest to the street; and current era improvements consist of dynamic lane offset, that could alter the Escalade barely over in its lane for driving force consolation whilst different motors are passing in near proximity. Additionally, new messaging at the driving force facts middle indicators drivers whilst Super Cruise might not be to be had in sure instances.
More room to transport
The 2021 Cadillac Escalade gives extra room for passengers and their shipment. A new structure and new chassis technology have considerably elevated indoors area, imparting forty percentage extra 0.33-row legroom (34.nine inches / 886 mm) and a sixty eight percentage boom in most shipment area at the back of the 0.33 row (25.five cubic feet / 722 liters) withinside the general-duration model.
The dramatic will increase in passenger and load area are due mainly to an extended wheelbase and longer ordinary car duration, in comparison to the preceding model, in addition to a brand new unbiased rear suspension, which permits a decrease indoors ground - functions that now no longer best amplify the Escalade's roominess, however enhance consolation through permitting less complicated get right of entry to to the second one and 0.33 rows, in addition to developing a extra herbal seating role for 0.33-row occupants.
Third-row legroom will increase extra than 10 inches, giving Escalade one of the roomiest 0.33 rows withinside the segment, even as the decrease ground and improved car duration permit shipment area to amplify.
"Escalade's new structure permits a completely unique collection of wins for drivers and passengers," stated Tim Herrick, vp for international product programs. "We significantly improved passenger area, elevated shipment wearing functionality - and on the equal time brought giant improvements to each journey fine and managing overall performance."
Isolated precision
The maximum spacious Cadillac Escalade ever is complemented with new and greater chassis technology supposed to supply a responsive, specific riding enjoy that gives superb isolation from the street. Contributing factors consist of:
- An all-new unbiased rear suspension essentially transforms the riding dynamics of the Escalade, permitting every rear wheel to deal with avenue situations one by one to dramatically beautify journey fine, steerage responsiveness and ordinary driving force manipulate.
- Cadillac's signature Magnetic Ride Control, the world's quickest reacting suspension era, keeps for Escalade. It makes use of sensors to continually "read" the street and adjust the damping price of the shocks nearly instantly. It reacts a great deal quicker than computer-managed surprise absorbers to lessen vertical frame motion, frame roll and vibrations that could regularly resonate in a huge SUV.
- New Air Ride Adaptive Suspension is to be had as a brand new machine that mixes with Magnetic Ride Control. The Air Suspension supplies automated load-leveling and journey-top changes constantly in any respect 4 wheels. In motorway riding, the machine robotically lowers the journey top to enhance aerodynamics; and a driving force-selectable putting lowers the suspension 2 inches (fifty one mm) to resource passenger access and go out whilst the car is parked. Drivers also can improve the frame for extra floor clearance whilst riding off-avenue.
- An digital limited-slip differential (eLSD) is to be had, imparting extra specific traction and strength engagement for the rear wheels. Its infinitely variable take hold of engagement supplies torque to the wheel with the maximum traction, together with cornering and moist climate situations.
Cadillac Escalade's to be had and particular mixture of Magnetic Ride Control, Air Ride Adaptive Suspension and eLSD gives superb frame manipulate and tremendous agility for a car of its scale. Four-wheel force is to be had on all fashions.
Power to transport you
Confidence-inspiring overall performance stays a trademark of the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, with a brand new 6.2L V-eight engine presented as general. With variable valve timing, stop/begin and Dynamic Fuel Management technology, it balances overall performance - 420 horsepower (313 kW) - with comparative efficiency.
For the primary time ever, the Cadillac Escalade is likewise presented with an to be had 3.0L turbo-diesel engine, that is designed to provide robust torque throughout the strength band for assured overall performance and trailering functionality. In fact, its 460 lb-ft (623 Nm) of top torque fits the 6.2L V-eight.
Both engines are matched with a 10-velocity automated transmission with digital shift manipulate; and a trailering package deal is general on all fashions. An greater trailering enjoy is obtainable with the to be had Trailering Integration Package.
