Exclusive: 2014 Cadillac Escalade - Here's Your First Official Look and Insider Info

If you take a look at Cadillac's current portfolio, there's one model that sticks out like a blueberry in a pan of milk for more reasons than one. Yes, we're talking about the Escalade, GM's biggest, most luxurious and with a $63,170 starting price, most expensive full-size SUV.

In production since 2007, the third generation Escalade has seen its sales numbers fall, but it remains a profit machine for GM, which is why the Detroit carmaker is keen to launch a replacement that will enhance its strong points and diminish its weaknesses.

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Spied on the Road: The 2014 Cadillac Escalade

Cadillac's most expensive model series, the Escalade, is getting old and GM knows it. The numbers speak for themselves with the regular Escalade seeing its sales drop by 16.3 percent last year; from 15,079 units in 2011 to 12,615, the long wheelbase ESV by -3.6 percent to 8,083 deliveries and the EXT pickup truck version by -5.0 percent to 1,934 units.

The General isn't sitting with its arms crossed, though, as work on the fourth generation of Cadillac's full-size premium SUV is reaching its end.

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Future Cars: GM's Upcoming 2014 Cadillac Escalade Luxury SUV

The Sopranos, rappers and suburban mums (perhaps the Chinese as well…) can all rejoice; yes, that's right, the Cadillac Escalade is making a comeback - in fact quite a visual one, as you can see in our illustration based on recent spy shots and our own intel.

On the heels of the latest Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, GM's Cadillac unit has been busy massaging the truck-based platform with the aim of turning it into America's ultimate luxury SUV statement.

When first introduced in 1999, the aim was to tackle opposition from the likes of the Ford Group's Lincoln Navigator. The resulting effort was rather dismal as GM hastily took the GMC Yukon Denali as a starting point and barely modified it; thankfully whilst still being truck-based, successive generations have somewhat improved.

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P Diddy’s Cadillac Escalade Crashes with Lexus RX

Rapper, singer, producer, actor and businessman Sean Combs, also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Diddy and P Diddy, was in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac Escalade along with a passenger, who is believed to be record boss Andre Hurrell, going west on Sunset Boulevard when their SUV collided with a Lexus RX that made a left turn in front of them. Read more »

Two Cadillac Escalades Following their Boss in a Maybach Collide with Each Other and an Audi A4

Convoys of two, three or more cars following either a government official or one of the wealthy capitalists that emerged in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is nothing new, but watching these vehicles crash into each other is something we don't get to see very often, if at all.

According to the date displayed on the dashcam video, an incident of this sort happened last Friday, October 19, when what we assume to be the security personnel riding in Cadillac Escalade SUVs were trying to keep up to their boss who was in a black Maybach saloon, while also prohibiting any other vehicles from breaking their formation.

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China's Shanxi Victory Likes Itself Some Cadillac, Perhaps too Much…

Cadillac's "Art and Science" design language, which was first seen on a production model on the original CTS sedan before it spread to the entire range, has been a success bringing the Detroit company's styling to the 21st century.

In fact, it's so successful that an unknown state-run company from China named Shanxi Victory has decided to borrow the crispy and edgy design forms and apply them to its vehicle lineup.

There's a 0.00001 percent chance we're wrong, but we're willing to take the risk and say that Shanxi Victory did not ask General Motors' permission to use Cadillac's fascia...

And mind you, it's not only the Cadillac Escalade lookalike pickup truck found by the folks from CarNewsChina on Sohu, as we dug a bit further and discovered two more minivans that like what the wreath and crest brand has done to its 21st century models.

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