We’ve already seen spy photos of the upcoming new 2021 Cadillac Escalade, however all the prototypes spotted thus far have been covered in a secret-concealing layer of camouflage that has prevented us from getting a glimpse at its production styling.
We know the 2021 Escalade is set to bring the nameplate in line with the rest of the recently-redesigned Cadillac lineup, however, wearing a similar front fascia and grille and featuring similar LED light signatures.
Using that intel, our sister site, Cadillac Society, digitally rendered the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, taking the front end from the Cadillac XT6 three-row crossover and modifying them to fit the front end of the current-generation Cadillac Escalade. We know the Escalade will retain its boxy shape for the most part, so the side profile will not change as drastically as the front or rear fascias, we believe. Make no mistake, though – this will be an entirely new, clean-sheet design for the Escalade.
For the rear, we drew inspiration from the Cadillac XT4, with the compact crossover’s flared-out taillights making an appearance, along with a pair of trapezoidal exhaust pipes embedded in the rear bumper. A sublte character line runs just above the rear bumper, hinting toward the more carefully sculpted designs of current Cadillac crossovers like the XT4 and XT6.
Worth noting is that our rendering as polished metal exterior trim as opposed to gloss black exterior trim. As per Cadillac’s Y-trim level strategy, Luxury and Premium Luxury trims feature polished metal trim and luxury-focused accents, while Sport models feature black trim and performance-inspired exterior touches. The 2021 Cadillac Escalade will follow this split model strategy.
The 2021 Cadillac Escalade will launch during the first quarter of 2020. We’ve covered the SUV extensively in other articles, but the new full-size luxury vehicle will feature completely new exterior and interior designs, with the interior getting a large touchscreen display front and center. General Motors is also planning to launch a battery electric model variant that will have 400 miles of driving range, while a high-performance variant with one of GM’s supercharged Small Block motors is also said to be in the cards.
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Source: Cadillac Society
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This fugly render has nothing to do with the real car. I saw it 6 months ago. It won’t look like that.
Want to give some hints on what it will look like? Or when it will be revealed?
I have seen it- front is pretty close, back in nowhere near. Interior is fantastic. The T1 Escalade is the only vehicle where Johan got his way.
Front is not close, even though it has the horizontal head lights. This render has the CT4’s face.
As for JDN, Escalade is not the only car that will blow folk’s minds. All the models that will arrive after it will be just as good. Inside and out.
If It’s the picture of the Pearl White Escalade that showcased the details of It’s future Front-end, then I know what your talking about also, it did look nice.
I won’t go into the details, but the rear on the new Escalade looks like the current one with a more refined rear bumpe. Tail lights are almost identical to the existing Escalade, with perhaps slightly different internals. The side has the brushed aluminum C-Pillar, but perhaps some versions will get body color. The front has Escala motifs, but certainly doesn’t look like a cut and paste of the XT6/CT4. The grille area is much MORE imposing, and the headlights are small and rectangular in shape.
It looks very impressive inside and out.
Does it at least look less like a hearse than current ones?
Looks like the Hyundai Palisade. Yikes.
lol where does it look like a Palisade? I don’t see one key design element
I think this render looks “ok”, not great, but it’s definitely not a Palisade knock off
Not a fan of that. An over sized XT-6.
Bad, bad rendering. Not worthy of any site that self-identifies as an authority.
Time to find some new 12 year-olds, Alex.
I’ve been a long time reader and never posted comments but I just have to this time.
Tomko – what a giant bag of $hit you are. Can you do any better than this? No? Then shut your big dumb mouth and crawl back to whatever hole you crawled from.
If you don’t like it, good. But don’t belittle the hard work that goes into these things. I’m sure these guys put in long hours and tons of effort. If you don’t like it, so be it. But don’t be a giant back of d/Cks.
This is the best Escalade render I’ve seen thus far, and that includes better than car and driver and another one I forget who from. Will it look like this? Probably not. But it’s definitely entertaining and fun.
Keep fighting the good fight, team GMA. And Tomko, go crawl back into whatever orifice you crawled out from.
Hey Jimbo, John Davis over at MotorWeek was about to offer you an on air job! But now after reading your views on this render he thinks that you can only read braille…
That’s one more job offer than you have ever had in your sorry a$$ life, you basement dwelling troll. It’s all good, go on home to your basement as you hide behind a fake user name.
Oh, and do tell your wife that I’ll be back next week to pick up the shirt I left at her place yesterday. I take mine with light starch.
By the way, you never answered my question: CAN YOU DO ANY BETTER THAN THIS RENDERING? Let’s see your skills, trolley boy.
Jimbo. Funny you call me that. That’s what your wife calls me while you’re away.
Tired of flipping burgs at your McJob, Jimbo? Upside down on your bro-dozer? Palm sisters not putting out like they used to? Medicaid not paying for your Thorazine?
Whatever it is, son. Just turn on some Bill O’Reilly and relax. And remember what your mother said: You can be anything that you want to be on the Internet. Even this poor man’s Marty Crane schtick that you’ve got going on tonight.
Hell to the yeah I flip burgers! happen to own a few fast food franchises. 14 of my 19 general managers drive Escalades, myself included. What do you drive?
Ages ago as a little boy, I learned not to belittle others’ work, which apparently isn’t a value your parents taught you. How sad!
I happen to be having an excellent day Which seems to be more than you can say for yourself… only miserable morons feel the need to make fun of others’ work. Don’t like something? Fine. Take a mental note of it and move on. But to complain about it like a little baby is on another level. Shut up and move on. The people at GMA provide an awesome service and I love it… and I would be damned if I didn’t say something to stop morons like yourself from ruining it for the rest of us who are not miserable wretches like yourself.
Keep hiding behind a fictitious username, troll. I’ll keep driving my Escalade, being very content with life, and reading GMA.
You still failed to answer my question. Can you do better? LET’S SEE IT!
And in a nutshell, there’s the problem for Cadillac: Jimbo’s self-reported sample of 14 out of 19 of his fast food managers drive Escalade. Cadillac’s flagship, and for many the only real Cadillac still produced.
Do you think that in Germany 14 out of 19 fast food managers drive Mercedes-Benz’s S-Klasse flagship?
What about Japan? Do you think that 14 out of 19 fast food managers drive Lexus LS?
Maybe in South Korea 14 out of 19 fast food managers park a Genesis G90 at work?
Nope.
Any pretension that Cadillac holds to be a luxury product – or that Escalade is the spiritual successor to fine Fleetwoods of yore – completely evaporate in the heat of Jimbo’s ego.
Fast food managers of America should be driving Chevrolet or Ford. Maybe GMC or Jeep. Not Cadillac. No true luxury buyer wants to drive the same marque as a fast food manager. None.
The other problem is that as a fast food impresario, and self-reported employer of over a dozen Cadillac flagship owners, Jimbo doesn’t think it’s fair to challenge marginal work. That Hakuna Matata attitude is exactly what has brought Cadillac to where it is today: where it designs its flagship to appeal to fast food managers.
Hahaha your idiocy continues to shine through!!!!!
My guys all have MBAs and make enough to buy a new Escalade in cash every quarter. Some even two. If that somehow doesn’t line up with your sorry a$$ distorted view of who should or shouldn’t be driving these cars, then that’s your problem.
Yup! If you work hard and smart, make your money and are not an idiot with it then you deserve to have nice things. That applies to anyone living in any country, be it here or Germany. And yes, our counterparts in Germany actually do drive E and S Classes… and some Porsches. The taxes there are much higher, so it’s more difficult to buy a large or luxury car in Europe. But you probably wouldn’t know that with your pea-sized brain.
Here are some more stats for ya, dimwhit: a lot of us including myself drove S Classes. Up until 2014 or so, the parking lot at our staff meetings had as many as 12 staff owned Mercedes S and SL classes on any given week. One guy had the G wagon. But when Cadillac came out with the new Escalade with finally a better interior, most jumped ship. The remaining 4 of my 19 guys and gals currently drive Benz S or GLS because they had a bad experience with the Cadillac dealer in their area… and another guy drives a Lexus LC Coupe because he’s single and has no need for a large car.
Let me set you straight: I don’t care about challenging Cadillac or anyone else for that matter on sub-par products or services. You can do that all you want until the milkshake machine runs out of water (food industry joke that probably went right over your head). But what you should never do is deride the work like a major pompous a$$. Say you don’t like it, but don’t be a dip$hit about it.
Now that is especially true when you are deriding the work of GMA, which is not Cadillac or GM but a business WHOSE SERVICES YOU CONSUME FOR FREE. I come here every day to read but can’t stand people like you with your constant negativity.
As Someone who actually makes a product day in and day out, I know how tough that can be. Criticize products all you want but don’t be a d-bag. Those are the kinds of people who wind up on the do not serve list at public and private establishments.
If you came into my restaurants and told me that you had a problem with my food, I would take care of you with a smile on my face and buy your meal. I would even thank you for telling me about it. But if you come to me and told me something like you wrote in your initial comment about the render, I would politely ask you to leave. Surprised that the people who run GMA haven’t shown you the door – I would have a long time ago.
But hey, you still haven’t shown us your rendering. LETS SEE YOUR SKILLS TOMKO.
You know, Jim, your mother and I are getting more and more concerned about you.
Aside from slinging ad hominems you seem to have an awful lot of time to post fairy tale stories here.
Your posts continue to exhibit the signs of someone who lacks not only education but also intelligence. Step one foot outside of your comfort zone and you metaphorically soil your underpants with these ego-driven tales of your self-professed greatness.
Culling your multiple personalities to stop by and up vote or down vote posts speaks further to your emotional insecurity.
Taken together this speaks to a larger problem in your life. Are you maybe struggling with performance in the workplace or elsewhere?
Do you find it troubling that some internet rando could get so deeply under your skin with a single post?
Have you thought about talking to a professional about how you’re feeling these days?
You know, Jim, it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help.
Ladies, ladies…please!
You’re both pretty, OK?
“Bad, bad rendering. Not worthy of any site that self-identifies as an authority.Time to find some new 12 year-olds, Alex.”
Would you say that to someone in real life? No, probably not, so WHY say it on the internet?
I should clarify that my comments are in no way intended to imply any inappropriate relationship with a minor.
But if you mean to ask me if someone ran a website that claimed to be an authority on the subject at hand, and tabled a rendering that they ought to know was so far removed from the real thing that it looked like it had been prepared by a 12 year old who’d been paid in McHappy meals, then you’re damn straight I would.
Tomko, where you’re going wrong is the purpose of our renderings to begin with, and that totally distorts your way of thinking on this topic.
We render to see how things could look like or how they would look like. Other times, we do them for fun and because we think it a worthy exercise. It’s never a sure fire thing and no one ever claimed THIS IS HOW THE 2021 ESCALADE WILL LOOK LIKE.
The “authority” in our name reflects what we already do on the daily and what we will continue to do. Your interpretation as it relates to a rendering is too literal and simply goes overboard. I shouldn’t have to explain this to someone with your ability to reason, something that your comments indicate you have no problem doing. In other words, you’re a smart guy… why do I have to explain this to you?
In the case of this particular rendering, it took a lot of work from our artist. When I say a lot, I mean A LOT. So, if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But it’s just bad form to say what you did above. Yes, bad form, bad etiquette, and downright churlish. Critique the rendering all you want, but don’t be a d|ck about it.
In the end, if you and I were in the same room together, something tells me you would have expressed yourself very differently. That is all.
Any news on the reveal for any of these?
Am I the only one that thinks that the latest Cadillac styling theme is boring and uninspired?? I mean, the new XT6 is about as bland as it gets. And the CT4 and CT5 leave much to be desired.
No, your not. I always thought the direction Cadillac took with the Ciel and Elmiraj concepts was the direction they should’ve expanded on.
XT6 definitely looks a lot better in person. In 2d it just doesn’t have a presence.
The front fascia looks is a major update from the current Escalade as it shares features found in the new XT6; but what’s under the skin that is important because if the 2021 Escalade is still nothing more than a pretty Suburban sharing engine and everything else then nothing has changed unless the Blackwing V8 is made as an available option.
Got to up their game with the 2018 Navigator, these seats, the best in auto history
It’s a shame so many other details inside the Navigator are so disappointing. Especially the cheap area on top of the dash where the grille is so poorly fitting. The powertrain feelt like it had a personality disorder. When it was cold it was alive. Once the engine warmed up it would fall on its face despire the “augmented cabin noise”. Plus on the outside…. it looks like a Korean knockoff of a GM fullsize SUV due to so many duplicated body lines.
It took an instant to recognize those style cues right from the GM model, especially the side view.
Live in the Mountains, Lincoln has more power with the twin-turbo V6 than the Cadillac eight. Every 1000 foot of elevation you lose 3% of your horsepower with a nationally aspirated engine. A turbo throws that to the waste side, no loss in horsepower, so at a tad above 7000 foot, I keep those 21 plus horses, less shifting and still the best seats. I’m not bunched up on either of the styles that much, have had Suburbans, Expeditions, but finally settled into a few Navigators. GM will have to go with a turbo soon, regulations will make them and there is too much profit in these trucks. Air suspension was the best ride, though dated styling, 20K cheaper than the Escalade. Now Navigators are pulling near sticker and Caddy is dealing until the catch-up. Not doing the 12 grade Ford versus Chevy argument here, buy what you like, right now, I like the Navigator (dressed up F150 with great seats, better third seat drop, though GM finally added it. Never had many problems with either companies big SUVs I have had.
The Navigator is hideous though.
It took an instant to recognize those style cues right from the GM model, especially the side view.
I think it’s the Aviator that GM has to worry about. It’s sized right, is powerful, and has the luxury goodies if you want them. The style might not be right for everyone (though I can’t see anyone not liking the exterior), especially the interior, but it’s clear they put a lot of thought into it.
Yes! Major upgrade over the current Escalade. I’d buy this but I suppose the real thing will look even better.
My personal opinion:
This render looks like a larger XT6 with a squared-off body.
Not an, Escalade.
If they don’t keep the,” in your face” grille, and this plus-sized XT6 look is really the outcome, it won’t be a happy ending.
Years of building a cash cow, CAN NOT be watered down. Even if the interior is upgraded.
I hope this is a bad joke.
I think the rear is awesome, front not so much.
The new poster model for “forced design language” on a vehicle.
Respectfully / IMHO…If this is even close to reality, it confirms Cadillac Styling is unprepared to offer compelling designs in the future…and in so much acknowledging Lexus is the true innovator.
Lexus innovated the Darth Vader grille.
No they didn’t. Not even close.
Their design inspiration was the 1961 Plymouth Fury.
Google one.
I’m really hoping for more. This appears to be the current model with an escala facia. Nice facia but let’s reach a little more
I’m sure it will look just fine. What needs real improvement is the interior. Get rid of the column shifter for fks sake (name another luxury vehicle that has one) and redesign the center stack – and all those horrible tiny buttons – so it doesn’t look like an 80s synthesizer. Take a few cues from European styling for once and get some real fit & finish. I mean do *something* about that interior because one day the engineers at Ford will get more money to finish the rear styling of the new Navigator and then the exodus to the Blue Oval will accelerate at an even more rapid pace than it is now.
Clearly a photoshop of another cad model front onto the existing body. Lazy rendering and reporting.
When are they releasing it!!??? Anybody know actual date or month?
Hopefully the interior gets the most attention,for a six figure vehicle the interior is seriously lacking the sophistication & the refinement it’s price is asking! Lincoln has comeback very strong & has improved greatly from it’s yester years! Cadillac has a chance to widen the gap even more with this updated Escalade let’s just hope they stand up to the challenge!!!