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Refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade Interior Shows Escalade IQ Copy-Paste

General Motors is gearing up to debut a refresh for the ICE-powered Cadillac Escalade SUV in conjunction with the 2025 model year, introducing a wealth of updates and changes over the current model. Among these will be a redesigned interior, complete with new infotainment features. Now, we have new spy photos confirming that the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade will feature an identical dash as the new, all-electric Cadillac Escalade IQ.

The interior of the Cadillac Celestiq ultra-luxury sedan.

Cadillac Celestiq interior

2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ interior

For those readers who may not remember, GM Authority was the first to report that the refreshed Cadillac Escalade would feature a full-width, coast-to-coast (or pillar-to-pillar) screen quite similar to that of the Cadillac Celestiq ultra-luxury sedan. Our assertion was backed by spy photos that, while covered in camouflage, certainly suggested the refreshed Escalade would equip a nearly identical infotainment layout as the Cadillac Celestiq.

Two months later, GM pulled the sheets on the all-new 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ, showing us, lo and behold, a coast-to-coast infotainment screen and familiar dash. Now, GM Authority has a new set of spy photos revealing that the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade interior will feature a screen and dash layout identical to that of the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

The photos give us an eyeful of the new ICE-powered Escalade’s 55-inch screen, replacing the 38-inch OLED screen introduced for the 2021 model year with a horizontal layout running pillar to pillar, just like the screen on the 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ and Cadillac Celestiq. Although there’s still some camo in the way, the similarities are too close to ignore, with a clear vertical break separating the passenger’s polarized side of the screen.

We also see the additional tablet display at the base of the dash, which is used for HVAC controls, once again mimicking the Cadillac Escalade IQ. Further details include slim air vents and distinctive metal trim. Even the steering wheel appears to be identical between the Cadillac Celestiq, Cadillac Escalade IQ, and ICE-powered 2025 Cadillac Escalade refresh.

Final bits and pieces of note include redesigned steering wheel stalks, while the shifter has been moved from the center console to the right steering stalk, similar to the Cadillac Lyriq.

We’ll have more to say on the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade in the future, so stay tuned. In the meantime, remember to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac Escalade news, Cadillac Escalade IQ news, Cadillac news, GM electric vehicle news, GM technology 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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Comments

  1. Please don’t put this crap in the Yukons and Tahoes too. Excessive screens began as a luxury and now there’s no option NOT to have them. Not everything needs to be “smart” to be functional. I’d even argue that these kind of updates hinder responsiveness and build quality.

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  2. They are trying to “normalize” EV garbage by weirding their traditional ICE vehicles to match. Just like MSRPs, ICE prices are going to the moon so they can claim price parity with limited-use EV.

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    1. ocnblu,

      Good point. This is probably true.

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    2. “EV garbage”

      Except if you look at the most popular EVs, which are still Teslas, they’ve been trying to minimize everything, and have a single screen, or one large screen in the center and a small one for the driver.

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  3. looks like they went full wagoneer interior here…

    or 2020+ audi

    original. not.

    tbh nothing can be worse than the 2010s cadillac center stacks (the ones that burn out every other month) with the fake buttons that are pressure/electroresponsive whatever non buttons. you know what im talking about. previous gen escalade, cts ats so forth.

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  4. The rappers are already lining up. For the rest of us, wouldn’t touch it a mile away.

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    1. That assumes the rapper isn’t shot dead.
      I hear Tupac, notorious B. I. G xternnalon might know something about that.

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      1. I think that GM is brilliant and they wanted to beat the competition with using their technology to continue towards the future and I liked the previous Cadillac Escalade 2021 with the 38 inch curved screen and after I read about the redesigned or refreshed Cadillac Escalad 2025 model. I really liked the look of the 55 inch display inside the interior of the refreshed Cadillac Esclade that the took it from the new Cadillac Escalade IQ and the Cadillac Celestic EV’s

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    2. Wow , I don’t think it’s that many rappers out that can afford a Cadillac to make it a top selling SUV. SMH why so many ppl hate on the culture.

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      1. It’s just an excuse for people here to be r**ist without actually saying it out loud.

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      2. “SMH why so many ppl hate on the culture.”
        Because that culture doesn’t have much to recommend it.
        Now, whether or not that’s what you want your car associated with is a different question.

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        1. Most Escalade drivers I see are middle aged white women. I’d rather be associate with rap culture.

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        2. HAs plenty of LOOTING VIDEOS THOUGH

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    3. You weird racists should want rappers to want this vehicle since it would actually lead to more sales and brand appeal that Cadillac desperately needs. In case you haven’t noticed, old geriatric white people aren’t a sustainable consumer source which is why Cadillac is having to try to appeal to younger crowds. This site is getting terrible. Maybe I should stop letting you trolls get me riled up.

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  5. Sadly, General Motors will not make it to 2025.

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    1. Perhaps the dumbest opinion in the history of this site.

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  6. Just curious about the people complaining about too much Tech…….do you still utilize a Flip Phone?

    Tech always changes and it is never going to stop so you want GM to stay Stagnant versus the onslaught of competition that is the Auto Industry?
    I just do not get why people want to keep things stagnant. I have never understood that.

    Would you still want to have a 25 inch Tube Television inside a wooden cabinet at the house or a nice 82 Inch Flat Screen HaHa

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    1. its not tech, its annoyance. stupid things like driver lockouts. i spend more time fiddling with it while driving than actually getting it done if i wasnt stonewalled on so many settings and options.

      so you notify me of a new msg, show me from who but will not display it because vehicle is moving? instead i have to click so some bad robot tries to read it to me? meanwhile to change radio station i have to fiddle with the very same display. i will just look at my phone and read it from there. how about that liability attorneys!

      how hard is it to remember things like engine start stop settings? why do i need to get a 3rd party bypass module to force it in the off setting every system cycle? why is that not an option i can select somewhere and forget about it. why make me press a button each time? its a horrible “tech”

      and so forth and forth. its not technology. it is annoyance.

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    2. Momolos,

      Everything in life advances and keep changing. It is the people that don’t change with the times is the problem.

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      1. @Johnls_39
        Agreed.

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  7. Those gall dang whipper snappers ain’t gunna make me buy one of them there wide screen thinga ma jiggies with all dem do hickies…

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    1. Ya, who them need an Escalade when there ain’t nothin’ more better than brushing their tooth after cuttin’ more cord to hold up them raggedy pants. That family tree is real flat…

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  8. Looks like the switchgear will be more polished and elegant than the prefresh model which already has a badass cabin currently.

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  9. I have religously drove ICE Escalades since 2009. Looks like my 2023 might be my last one and switch to a Yukon…. I think they are going to loose some customer base on this.

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    1. @Bryan
      If the Detroit Auto Show crowd is any indication, Cadillac has absolutely nothing to worry about going BEV.
      The Escalade IQ was always packed with onlookers. And the Lyriq had more onlookers than the XT4, XT5, and XT6 combines. They will be fine so long as they can actually figure out how to manufacture at scale.

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    2. lol…. Thanks tips. If that is all you could get out of this thread just move along….

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      1. That’s not all I could get out of it…

        “I have religously drove ICE Escalades since 2009” – Driven, not drove. Also, it’s religiously not religously.

        Me fail English, that’s unpossible.

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        1. lol wow… coming from someone who problem drives a 10 year old Camry and has no business even being in forums like this. Mother must be proud bud! 😉

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  10. Like looking at “soulless appliance”.

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  11. Doesn’t this take away the “cool” factor from the IQ ? The interior was kinda the whole point I was interested in the IQ over an ice. But now that the ice version will be a copy and paste interior to the IQ I will rather have a 2025 V Escalade

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    1. The Escalade is the exception because it’s going to be the only remaining ICE Cadillac through the end of the decade.
      Based on these photos, it appears the strategy is to make the transition from the ICE model to the EV model as painless as possible.

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  12. But wait, is that another GM super classy beige interior. How over the top original.

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  13. I guess this means it’s coming to the CT5 on 3 years. Love the futuristic appearance but it looks like things could get costly real quick if you need to repair it.

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  14. I’m a single momma of 3 and I have a 2016 ext I love it but know I love these new ones but I can’t afford them and I see them in pics and on the road and wonder how nice it would be lol but anyway so ima push my oldie till she’s dies then get whatever I can

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  15. I like everything about it except for the column stalk shifter! GM just got lazy once again on something simple and goofed! A piano button would have been better and would look more upscale! But that’s how GM does things!

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  16. You need a First Officer on board to concentrate on the screen with a finger to just to turn up or turn down the heat/AC. simple round gauges in Suburbans?Yukons work well for the driver in command and need less concentration while driving. I feel the digital adjustments on screen are dangerous to adjust while driving in Escalade.

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  17. Looks great!
    BEV version will be a failure after the initial sales pop, just like many other high end evs.
    The ICE version will continue to be sold at or above MSRP for a long time.
    Go take a look at your used car listing website of your choice. Search for a low mileage , black, esv, sport, 2021 and up, and you will see.

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  18. I agree. I feel the IQ version will be a very small % of escalade sales, let alone it costs 2x the price.
    The market talks, and post 21 escalades are STILL going for close to msrp , after they are leased.
    In general, it appears that alot of BEV vehicles are not holding value in the same fashion.
    This of course has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. Unless it makes customers hesitant to spend almost double the money for an electric version of a car with the same interior and much worse residual.

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  19. I don’t know where these people live who post negative about screens. They certainly don’t know the market. Fortunately the automakers know to disregard! The 2025 will be the best selling model in Cadillac Escalade history!

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