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| Photo shot with Olympus E-510 & Zuiko 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 |
An absolutely eye-catching murdered-out '21 or '22 Cadillac Escalade Sport in Raven Black. The black 12-spoke wheels, gloss black "Escalade" name badges, and monochrome Caddy crest on the grille indicate it's an Onyx Package, a $2500 addition to the base Slade Sport.
Say what you will about it being a gussied-up Tahoe/Yukon, but they ain't having a hard time moving Escalades. It's been a consistent hit for Caddy, with enough badge recognition that it kept its name through the alphanumeric soup era of Cad model designators that saw even venerable nameplates like "Eldorado" and "DeVille" get replaced with random Scrabble hands.
The tailgate had this "600" badge which I had to go look up. Caddy has decided alphanumerics look Euro and upmarket and so they indicate the potency of the car with this number plate. Except it's not the displacement or the horsepower, it's the torque. And it's not the torque in decent American foot-pounds, but in newton-metres, which is metric torque. And it's not the actual torque in newton-meters, which would be 624, but rather rounded to the nearest hundred newton-meters, since "600" looks better on a badge than "624".
You can tell it has the 6.2L EcoTec3 gasoline V8 and not the 3.0L Duramax inline-6 turbodiesel, because the latter would have a "600D" badge. (Both engines have the same peak torque, but the diesel's shows up 2600 RPM sooner on the tachometer.)
Say what you will about it being a gussied-up Tahoe/Yukon, but they ain't having a hard time moving Escalades. It's been a consistent hit for Caddy, with enough badge recognition that it kept its name through the alphanumeric soup era of Cad model designators that saw even venerable nameplates like "Eldorado" and "DeVille" get replaced with random Scrabble hands.
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