...if it sports 40" rims.
Car and Driver: 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V Is a Three-Row SUV Hiding a 682-HP V-8. 3 ton / $150k / 4.4 0-60 / 12.7 qt mi @ 110 mph. š³
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...comes with complimentary jar of Vaseline though.
And folks are buying $90k Wrangler. Like this one at our dealership.
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yea but that's in Canadian $....the 'Arctic Peso'.
He paid $110.0 Canadian with tax. I did a conversion.
He paid over list.
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I can 100% guarantee that Cadillac will have zero issues selling this rig for $150k. The big SUV market is always one of high demand for at least two decades and in recent years it has become one in which the consumer has no problem paying inflated prices. Many of these types of buyers love high performance and/or the exclusivity of certain vehicles so I would call this Escalade a slam dunk.
Jane the soccer mom has to get her kids to practice before everyone else, do you think that she really wants to be like everyone else in a Sienna or Odyssey???
I can hardly it to see the owners manual for the oil recommendation. Think it will be 0w20 ?
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Boosted engine? It's either 5W-30 Dexos 1 G2/3 or Mobil 1 ESP 0W-40.
This probably weighs over 3 tons.
Also wouldnāt surprise me if Cadillac was pessimistic with their performance estimation on this; OEMs often are with halo vehicles like this.
The BMW fans will say thatās nothing blah blah blah. The impressive thing is how much loading goes through a single connecting rod, not how much horsepower per liter the engine it produces. Just divide your horsepower by the number of cylinders to compare. This one is 87.5 HP per cylinder. It implies that your motor oil has to take some serious loading at the rod journal.
I hope you are wrong, but I am afraid you are not.
GM will sell ever single $150K Caddy they make.
Wealthy folks have the income to buy this type of vehicle.
I would, too. I love it, this will do real well in the Middle East where there's even a Nismo variant of the Nissan Patrol/Armada.
I agree with your assessment, but really, could those folks really afford $150,000 vehicles or did they lease it and park it in front of their heavily mortgaged POS house with their empty 401K.
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I hate to agree. But man, where I live, you may be right.
im getting up in my years, Iāve seen and learned a lot. Iām comparatively conservative with my purchases; donāt like debt. I see a lot of younger folks moving to town, and they have āall the things.ā New house twice the price, and a driveway with (a) yukon or 4 door pickup and (b) German sedan or suv. Kids, dogs, fenced yard. Fancy grill, and choose the luxury hobby (a) boat(s) (b) golf (c) anything āsalt life,ā and 2 years ago, āyeti.ā there seems to be a strong correlation between āI want it,ā and buying it.
i appreciate someone else admitting earlier, their occasional envy of others for these things. I feel it too. But I also see the brokenness, stress, stupid-high divorce rate here (we used to be 2nd in the nation, not sure about now), and how it drives people to stress, perform, stab the next guy in the back - I donāt want that.
Iāll admit this - I feel sometimes this fear that āif I donāt get mine now, Iāll miss out.ā If I donāt buy a nice 4 door truck now, I wonāt be able to get one when (a) electrics make it too expensive, or phase out the gasser I can afford; (b) better get a BEV now before gas prices explode; (c) better get the newer house now or else Iāll lose the opportunity to find what we want; (d) better sell this house now or Iāll lose the market where I can get the good price; (e) get it now or Iāll be left behind tomorrow. Itās irrational, but that fear seems to get lit, pushing me to want to purchase something. It lights in me as a fear as often as it does a want for something. dont like it.
what drives them/us to buy these things? I have no doubt Iāll see a dozen here in a year or 2.
It depends on the person - I read Rich Dad Poor Dad many years ago and that is one of its central themes which could be accurate for upper middle class homes ($350-500k per year). I have a bunch of family members on Wall Street and I have a cousin who bought a $4M house in CT but really liked the house next door. When it went on the market he bought it for $5.5M but it had to be totally renovated so he stayed in the original home for about a year while the new house was renovated - he's 44 years old and has FU money as does his father and all his siblings. My wife grew up in this town and I've been in and around it for +20 years visiting my in-laws - money to these people is....easy, no big thing, and relatively easy to get. That's not to say they aren't smart people and they don't work hard - they absolutely do - but so do a lot of people who make a fraction of their income.
This thing has Starbucks drive thru written all over itā¦
Yep. And it hogging up 2 lanes when picking up kids from school.