2023 Cadillac Escalade-V - King of the City!

2023 Cadillac Escalade-V Tested: Power and Money Cadillac’s new flagship SUV tries to justify its $151,490 price with 682 supercharged horsepower. Cadillac has done to the Escalade something it should have done nearly two decades ago: give its full-size SUV the V treatment. Admittedly, the ethos of the American luxury brand’s performance arm has become somewhat muddled in recent years, what with the V lineup now split between tamer V-badged models and full-on V Blackwing high-performance variants, such as the 10Best-winning CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing. But there’s nothing confusing about the new 2023 Escalade-V. Its mission is one of power and prestige. We certainly won’t call the Escalade-V tame, as it packs a 682-hp wallop from a supercharged V-8—a hand-built mill that’s closely related to the 668-hp supercharged V-8 found in the CT5-V Blackwing, though the engine in the SUV trades the sedan’s Roots-type blower for a larger