The 2022 Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV add three new exterior colors to their palette: Mahogany Metallic, Wilder Metallic, and Galactic Gray Metallic. Here’s our first look at the new Galactic Gray hue.
Assigned RPO code G6M and touch-up paint code WA-618G, Galactic Gray Metallic is one of nine exterior colors offered on the full-size luxury SUV, which include:
- Black Raven
- Crystal White Tricoat
- Dark Moon Blue Metallic
- Infrared Tintcoat
- Sandstone Metallic
- Satin Steel Metallic
- Mahogany Metallic (new for 2022)
- Galactic Gray Metallic (new for 2022)
- Wilder Metallic (new for 2022)
The Galactic Gray Metallic color is an extra-cost item that adds an additional $625 to the vehicle’s price. It can be combined with all six interior colorways available on the full-size luxury SUV:
- Brandy with Very Dark Atmosphere Accents
- Dark Auburn with Jet Black Accents
- Jet Black
- Parchment with Jet Black Accents
- Whisper Beige with Gideon Accents
- Whisper Beige with Jet Black Accents
As GM Authority covered previously, other updates and changes for the 2022 Cadillac Escalade include the addition of the Buckle To Drive feature, which is an extension of the Teen Driver system, and works to promote safe seatbelt usage. When active, teen drivers are encouraged to buckle up with an auditory beep and visual message in the driver information center. What’s more, the system does not allow the driver to shift the vehicle out of park until the seatbelt is fastened. Once their seatbelt is secured, the system will allow the vehicle to be shifted out of park.
Additionally, the 2022 Cadillac Escalade deletes the Near Field Communication phone pairing feature. NFC enables quick data transfer between compatible devices that are placed in near proximity to one another, enabling a streamlining of the process to pair a smartphone with the vehicle’s infotainment system. Previously offered as standard for the 2021 model year, the latest Escalade will not offer NFC phone pairing moving forward, as smartphone pairing has been significantly simplified over the last few years.
The 2022 Cadillac Escalade is the second model year of the all-new fifth-generation nameplate, which was introduced for the 2021 model year. Highlights for the fifth generation include an all-new exterior, an all-new interior, and the latest technology, such as a large OLED curved infotainment display, and the inclusion of the GM Super Cruise semi-autonomous drive system.
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With no vehicles to look at they should start having metal samples to look at as pictures can be far off of reality
100% agree.
The Galactic Gray Metallic is the same as GMC Titanium Rush Metallic and Chevy Dark Ash Metallic. All the GM images are gray when in fact there is a lot of purple and blue in the videos I have seen online. Further more, it’s extremely hard to find a dealer around me with that color in stock to actually see in person.
Was at the auto show yesterday. I did see something like that for chevy. I got my oil changed this week at the dealer. I saw 6 slades on the lot and mentioned to my sales guy that things are looking better. He laughed, apparently there was some golf tourney that caddy was sponsoring in town and they had 50 event cars to shuttle people around. My dealer got most of the cars after the tourney. He said those on the lot were all sold and waiting to be picked up. Most had already been picked up and only those 6 still were waiting for pickup.
Announcing what paint colours are new, what paint colours have been dropped is getting to be too funny.
Someone is sitting in an office receiving a great salary, and benefits for shuffling paint colors around like checkers or chess.
By the time a customer reads the brochure, selects a colour, someone at GM drops the colour and adds a new one.
Simply prepare a list of colours, make them available for at least one year, as that is the only real way you will know what the customer likes.
Another way to cut costs at GM is to replace the Paint Wizard that has nothing to do but play with his crayons and colouring book.
GM has 50 shades of black in there suv’s and trucks. 90 % dark colors,
Reminds me of the Phantom Gray that was available in 2017 on my Cadillac CT6.
As long as it isn’t that ugly non-metallic battleship gray that I have been seeing on foreign vehicles lately.