The new Cadillac Escalade from General Motors is the most expensive and most powerful so far, with a price of $150,000

Detroit – ‘General Engines’ The latest Cadillac Escalade will be the most powerful and expensive version of the full-size SUV ever when it goes on sale this summer, with a starting price of about $150,000.

The Detroit automaker revealed a new model 2023 Cadillac Escalade – V Wednesday’s Supercharged 6.2-liter V8 makes 682 horsepower and 653 pound-feet of torque. That’s a huge performance improvement over the 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque the current SUV’s V-8.

“There is nothing like it in the industry,” David Schiavon, global product manager for Cadillac Escalade, said during a media briefing. “The Escalade will be the most expensive and most expensive car ever.”

Schiavone declined to reveal how many Escalade-V models the company expects to produce annually. However, given its performance and a starting price of $149,990, it is likely to be low production but very profitable. The price is nearly double the entry-level Escalade, at around $76,300.

Automakers have increasingly added performance variants to their lineups as a way to boost profit margins before they move toward electric vehicles, which It can offer high performance But margins are lower than gas-powered cars.

The new V series from General Motors, Previewed earlier this year, The Escalade SUV is similar to today’s Escalade but includes new badges and parts to improve the vehicle’s performance. Cadillac says the car can hit 0-60 mph in about 4.4 seconds, an impressive time for a full-size luxury SUV.

The car features the Escalade’s most expensive interior option, which includes leather seats, electric massage front seats, a 36-speaker AKG Studio Reference audio system, 38-inch OLED information and control screens and Zebra Wood accents.

The Cadillac “V” or “V-Series” designation has long been used.r low performance cars. The Escalade is the first SUV to earn the badges, as General Motors tries to make as much profit as possible from existing internal combustion engine vehicles to help fund new cars and electric technologies.

Cadillac said it plans to Offers exclusively electric cars By the end of this decade, starting with the recently launched Lyric crossover. This effort is part of General Motors’ comprehensive plan to offer electric vehicles only globally by 2035.

Schiavone said the brand is still on track to meet its EV goals, but will continue to offer gas models until then. He declined to say whether the Escalade-V would be the car’s last major change before expectations that it would become an EV.

“Cadillac is committed to a complete future of electric vehicles,” said Schiavone. “This has already started, but it hasn’t happened today. You’ll see EV and ICE drives for several years until we get to the all-electric future.”