2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ | MotorWeek First Drive

We're just back from San Francisco and our first drive in #Cadillac's full-size EV SUV, the #EscaladeIQ. This is not the boxy #Escalade you’ve seen gracing country clubs and rap videos over the past few decades, but rather a re-imagined prime mover built for the brand’s all-electric future.

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[orlandocfi]

Saw one on the road yesterday. It looks like a locomotive…and now i want one.

[anibalbabilonia]

I just can’t wrap my head around $130, 000 dollars!💸 insane!

[petervitti]

I drove an abandoned 1988 cadillac Brougham for 13 years that I fixed up. Got rid of it about 8 years ago. Kinda of miss it.

[MercOne]

It's a rare knockout for Cadillac. It's exactly what a Cadillac should be. Selling this along side the ICE version is a brilliant gut punch to the segment.

[Cheezwizzz]

Vmax hp and torque figures are insane!! 😮

[AraCarrano]

@3:13 When listing range and towing capacity. It would help to explain the reduction in range when towing at max capacity.

[moejr]

I love all the experts in here who think they know the car market

[mcole]

I know it costs an arm and a leg, but this SUV is BEAUTIFUL 🔥👈🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My goodness.

[bseenature]

I can smell the depreciation on this thing. I’ll wait 3 years 😂

[omidnamin]

sitting in front of a wide screen computer monitor is not luxury. this trend needs to die

[mrpmj]

I love it. Only thing missing is Apple Carplay!

[TheCarCrazyGuy]

Just buy an Escalade V. This SUV will tank like a rock in resale value.

[Sacapuntas]

Wow, that is what we need on the drivers looking at screens!

[roberthoyt]

Will the Escalade IQL preview the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon EVs?

[aonforme]

Those horsepower numbers are clever, but how practical is a 0-60 in this type SUV? I get the marketing draw, though.

[spikedpsycho]

Never ending tirade of Touchscreen delusion. Analog needs make a comeback. If you gonna sell me a 120, 000 dollar car but you skim on stylish buttons, fuk that

[davidsherrick]

Starts at $130K I'll take two please!

[Adamthedriver]

Pretty sure navigator will come out with an Ev next…200k is crazy tho

[Mkvkuv]

god damn, this thing must be fucking heavy as a whale. i hate to be hit by it

[ArabianOak]

can't wait to snatch one up for 55k in 2 years.