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Cadillac Escalade Receives An Interesting Rolls-Royce Conversion

There’s sort of a mutual respect for car ownership: it’s your vehicle, do what you want to it. We can judge, but it’s not our vehicle at the end of the day. Though, we will say, this is certainly an interesting conversion and someone has undertaken quite a bit to make it happen.

What your looking at is indeed a Cadillac Escalade, spotted by Doug DeMuro outside of an undisclosed airport. Upon closer inspection, it’s no ordinary Escalade. The front end has been completely converted with Rolls-Royce Phantom parts, and they look legitimate, too.

The front grille and headlights flow pretty evenly into what may be a custom hood, though there’s no knowing if these parts are genuine. If these aren’t genuine parts, we seriously commend the owner for at least doing a quality execution. There are even rear-hinged doors from the looks of it, a trademark Rolls-Royce attribute.

It doesn’t look half bad, either. We’ve certainly seen more horrendous mashups in our lifetime. This ranks pretty low on the “beaten with ugly stick” scale.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. “Interesting” to describe this was being polite.

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  2. Quite sad as it says something about what rung of the ladder Cadillac stands on relative to Rolls.

    Really, stuff like this should never happen if the public had any reverence for Cadillac. The problem is that Cadillac spent decades deliberately degrading itself to get to what you see above.

    If the owners excuse for this is “I wanted a Rolls, but I had to settle for a Cadillac”, then by ‘settling’ you’ve already lowered your expectations by accepting a substitution. What Cadillac needs is people who aren’t poseurs who don’t need to fake it or mislead others. Rolls Royce can already find and sell to people who wouldn’t stick an Escalade front onto a Phantom, so why can’t Cadillac reach above this kind of crap?

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    1. I didn’t see it that way at all. I love both vehicles equally so why not have a mixture of both? Creative work that resulted in the discussion we’re seeing here.

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    2. I disagree with Grawdad. I’d say the owner essentially wanted the image and utility of a Rolls Royce SUV. Since Rolls Royce doesn’t offer an SUV, he took the best existing SUV – the Cadillac Escalade – and swapped in the RR front end and front-hinged (“suicide”) rear doors. I’d say the choice of a Cadillac frame showed respect for Cadillac, not disregard.

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  3. Can’t say, “I like the looks of this.”

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  4. Maybe it’s actually a Cullinan prototype. Either that or Cadillac has been listening to me. I’ve long said Cadillac should be targeting another division in the BMW AG family; Rolls Royce. Their swift and silent niche is more in keeping with Cadillac tradition than the company’s namesake brand’s canyon carvers. Maybe JdN finally got the message.

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  5. I’d rather have Hennessy or Lingenfelter do it. 1000hp is justill about right.

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  6. The suicide doors are ok.

    The rest looks like Willie the Wimp’s Cadillac coffin…

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