Imagine taking a Cadillac limousine and a Chevy Suburban, then turning them over to Team Corvette. Pick whatever go-fast parts you want from the parts bin and you’d get something like the 2025 Cadillac Escalade V.

Refreshed for 2025, gas-powered Escalades adopt styling cues from the Escalade IQ and LYRIQ EVs. Functional lighting moves from horizontal to vertical to emphasize the bladelike driving lamps. The giant grille is blacked out and meshed for V duty. Retractable running boards, black trim, and 24-inch dark wheels dish attitude. Around back, quad exhausts underly vertical taillamps that extend into the roof pillars as modern-day tailfins.

Escalade already had one of the largest swaths of glass in its dash, but updates for 2025 include a full-width 55-inch screen over a smaller iPad

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