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2023 Cadillac Escalade-V Spied High-Altitude Testing In Colorado: Breaking

In case you’re late to the party, Cadillac is cooking up a new high-performance Escalade-V model, adding a heady dose of supercharged go-fast goodness to the iconic Cadillac Escalade luxury SUV. Now, the 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V has been spotted in prototype form undergoing some real-world high-altitude testing in Colorado.

The latest spy photos reveal several Escalade-V prototypes, including the standard-length model, as well as the extended-length Cadillac Escalade-V ESV (“Escalade Stretch Vehicle”). The prototypes were also spotted alongside a non-V Cadillac Escalade 600, which is equipped with the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, which produces 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque.

By comparison, the new 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V is expected to feature the supercharged 6.2L V8 LT4, the same rip-snortin’ lump-of-go found in the Chevy Camaro ZL1 and Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, offering up 650 horsepower in the Camaro, and 668 horsepower in the CT5-V Blackwing. The supercharged V8 will be mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission.

Interestingly, these prototypes are missing the production-intent exhaust finishers. When it does start rolling off the line, the 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V will come with a four-piece of rectangular exhaust finishers similar to those seen on the Escalade-V prototype that GM Authority featured earlier this month.

Further features will include Magnetic Air Ride Control and Air Ride Adaptive Control suspension components, as well as more aggressive styling. These prototypes are also noteworthy for their black multi-spoke wheels, which are the same rollers seen on earlier prototype models.

GM Authority was the first to report on the new Cadillac Escalade-V in July of 2019. Then, back in March of this year, Cadillac Chief Engineer Tony Roma hinted that a new go-fast Escalade model was indeed in the works.

We will be sure to bring you further updates on this exciting new SUV as we receive them, so stay tuned. In the meantime, subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac Escalade-V news, Cadillac Escalade news, Cadillac news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. I wonder if anyone got close enough to hear it? Boosted engines are easy to tell from the sound.

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    1. Guess I better start saving $$$ now!
      Damn thing gonna cost 150K, hope it’s not AWD hated that on my H2. Rather have it in a Tahoe SS

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  2. so whats with all the camo? normally…. as we are now seeing with the updated HD trucks, a new powertrain update normally features limited camo around the engine and hood. Here we see see everything is camoed up! aero improvements? structural reinforcements? additional performance electronic sensors? what all are we hiding????

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  3. That’s going to be expensive!

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  4. Hopefully CADILLAC will play a TRUMP CARD and slip a LT 5 in this V model , especially after the release of the RAM TRX , JEEP TRACK HAWK and the announcement of the updated V8 RAPTOR , hell it would even be better to see a new version of the CADDY EXT pickup . I know I would sign up for 1 . Hello MR. ROMA is it in the cards .

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    1. Perhaps, but I don’t think any of those cards trump the 1000hp Hummer truck or 800? Hummer SUV.

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      1. I’ll stick with fossil fuel as long as possible , E. V.s are no doubt in our future but gasoline and diesel will solider on for many years to come .

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        1. You’re right, ICE and diesel aren’t going anywhere for quite a while.

          I’m an ICE fanatic since I left the womb, but even I see the benefits of EVs. For example, the Hummer you guys brought up…1,000 hp in a beast the size of a small office building? With that kind of capability? Amazing, I love it.

          In a perfect world, 755 hp supercharged V8’s would be under the hoods of the Escalade-V at the same time 1,000 hp Hummers rode on battery electric platforms. The more choice for us consumers, the merrier.

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          1. I like both too. I’d love an ev truck that comes complete with a frunk, IRS and a ton of power. Ford has this, GMs answer the Hummer is not for me. They better be close with the largest MCE update ever in GMs history.

            My toy gets about 10mpg but I’m swapping the carb out for an efi kit. Maybe I’ll get 12 and it will run well all the time. :).

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    2. I could see a Cadillac electric pickup. High price to absorb dev cost of other EV’s.

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    3. you can expect 525 to 575 HP Escalade V, it will not be higher than that as it requires too much re-engineering (making it too $$$), plus Escalade Ev is coming in a little over a year, and it will smoke the ice version anyway, and the Jeep Track Hawk, which is really not a competitor.

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    4. EXT is Dead!

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      1. Cadillac would probably sell more EXTs in 1 year than all the CT6s they sold in 5 years .

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        1. I wouldn’t doubt it; but I wonder how many sales it would cannibalize from other brands – although if its a a higher transaction price does it matter?

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  5. These will easily retail for $140K+, and they’ll sell 1000 of them… maybe.

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  6. Gotta get this thing made. I need one by this winter, I cancelled last year for this. Can’t do that again. By the way, keep the engine AC running indefinitely with interior motion detector off. The auto start stop has to be added back and continued refinement of the auto cruise to work on any road. Not just predetermined ones. All I need is the engine, brakes on my rental are fine. Handling, something of this size will never be great. Don’t require sacrifices to achieve a small improvement. The rental, fully loaded, would have been very good with a couple hundred more HP.

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  7. WOULD BE NICE TO SEE THAT SAME POWERPLANT IN A YUKON DENALI A LITTLE BIT CHEAPER

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  8. As far as the Yukon goes …. The old saying “if you have to ask how much it is, then you can’t afford it”.

    Owner 2021 Escalade Prem/Lux, xt6 sport, Ct5-v

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