| | 2007 Cadillac Escalade - Road Tests - Car and Driver - May 2006 |
 | | But there’s no denying the Escalade’s popularity with various high-visibility individuals — professional athletes, X-gamers, pop stars — and there’s no denying that, as a consequence, the new Escalade had to upstage the bling quotient of its predecessor. |
 | | The Escalade irons out unruly patches of pavement without resorting to the mushy suspension tuning that still afflicts so many big SUVs, and the steering actually lets the driver know what’s going on, a welcome improvement on the overly assisted recirculating-ball system previously employed. |
 | | That’s not exactly tepid, but the ’07 Escalade trumps it with a new 6.2-liter all-aluminum cam-in-block (the word pushrod has been banished from the GM lexicon) eight whose increased displacement is enhanced by variable valve timing. |
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