Cadillac Escalade
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Full-size luxury SUVs manufactured by General Motors and sold by Cadillac since 1998
Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Cadillac ( General Motors )
- Production
- 1998–present, 2002–present (ESV), 2001–2013 (EXT), 2008–2013 (Hybrid)
- Model years
- 1999–2000, 2002–present
- Class
- Full-size luxury SUV
- Layout
- FR ( Front-engine, rear-wheel drive ) F4 ( Front-engine, four-wheel drive )
- Chassis
- Body-on-frame
- Related
- Chevrolet Suburban/GMC Yukon XL Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cadillac Escalade is a full-size luxury SUV manufactured by General Motors and marketed by Cadillac as its first major entry into the SUV market. The Escalade was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to an influx of new luxury SUVs in the late 1990s, including the Mercedes-Benz M-Class, Range Rover, Lexus LX, and Ford's 1998 debut of the Lincoln Navigator. The Escalade project went into production only ten months after it was approved. The Escalade is built in Arlington, Texas.
The term "escalade" refers to a siege warfare tactic of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders or siege towers. More generally, it is a French word which is the noun-equivalent form of the French verb escalader, which means "to climb or scale".
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