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2025 Cadillac Escalade ESV
Starts at $90,595
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What's New for 2025?
The Escalade gets a major overhaul for 2025 that includes refreshed exterior styling and a new dashboard with 55 inches' worth of screens extending from one side to the other. Premium audio from AKG offers up to 40 (forty!) speakers.
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2025 Cadillac Escalade ESV
Starts at $90,595
2025 Cadillac Escalade ESV Review
by Josh Sadlier
published Sep 27, 2024 | updated Jan 18, 2025
Is the 2025 Cadillac Escalade ESV a Good SUV?
"The 'Slade ESV gets new duds for 2025 along with a jaw-dropping 55-inch infotainment screen that spans from one windshield pillar to the other. Does the standard 6.2-liter V8 bum you out with its humble 420-horsepower output? Enter the Escalade-V ESV, which thunders on with essentially a previous-generation Corvette Z06 supercharged V8 (682 hp) under the hood. Cadillac knows what shoppers in this segment want, and they're getting more than ever. A potentially interesting question, though, is whether you might prefer the all-electric Escalade iQ. It's about the same length as the ESV and has some eye-popping numbers (450-ish miles of range, 750 hp) of its own."—Ranked #1 out of 3 Full-Size Extra-Long Luxury SUVs

by Josh Sadlier
Publisher and Donkey-in-Chief
Josh has been reviewing cars professionally since joining Edmunds.com fresh out of grad school in 2008, personally driving most new cars on the market every year since. He also served as the project manager for Edmunds' expert vehicle rankings from their inception in 2018, building the product out from the back end to the front end. Josh is a card-carrying member of the Motor Press Guild and a lifelong car nut who has tested, compared and critiqued a ridiculous number of cars in his career.
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