CADILLAC Lovers

[Timo]

Here is some pictures we took yesterday! It should be in ever thread not just STS-V

The STS-V is mine, and CTS-V is going to be sold.
The XLR is my twin brothers
Got the STS for my mom on Christmas
Got the Escalade for my dad
The XLR-V and Escalade EXT is my Friends car.

[Timo]

[Gast]

http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...em=4624495861/

De eerste BLS in Europa geveild, staat nu al op een veel hogere prijs dan hij kost! En daar komt hier nog is BTW bij ook. Alleen misschien aftrekbaar voor een goed doel?

[Timo]

toen m'n vader laatst z'n STS moest binnen doen voor de 15 000km zag hij al een BLS staan bij GMAN, dus de 1ste zullen ze niet zijn

en proberen ze de prijs ook niet omhoog te krijgen?

http://offer.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=4624495861

deze persoon " altea579 " bied EUR 14.200,00 en gaat dan gewoon verder bieden tot EUR 23.333,00. Toch niet logisch of wel soms?

[Gast]

off topic (of toch weer niet):

Timo, je hebt een snelle zus

[Timo]

Bling and Bang Taking the road less traveled to sample glitz and guns in a 2007 Cadillac Escalade
By BOB GRITZINGER

AutoWeek | Published 04/03/06, 7:14 am et
AT A GLANCE:
>> PHOTO GALLERY >> 2007 CADILLAC ESCALADE
ON SALE: Now
BASE PRICE: $57,280
POWERTRAIN: 6.2-liter, 403-hp, 417-lb-ft V8; awd, six-speed automatic
CURB WEIGHT: 5774 lbs
0 TO 60 MPH: 6.5 seconds (mfr.)
FUEL MILEAGE (EPA COMBINED/AW OBSERVED): 15.38/14.39 mpg

Cadillac’s Super Bowl television advertising featured a chrome-on-black 2007 Escalade, glittering center stage on a haute couture runway. It was hardly subtle in its appeal to the bling set: The fashionistas in this “Chrome Couture� ad represent precisely the image-conscious rappers, rockers, athletes, film stars, jet-setters and gangstas the Escalade has attracted since its debut in 1998.

However, as much as the Escalade shines in this spotlight, Cadillac says the rich and famous make up a mere 2 percent of Escalade owners; its bread-and-butter buyers haul kids and groceries, pull trailers and pile on highway miles. They are ordinary folk.

“We love the Hollywood and athlete crowd, but we can’t sell the Escalade as a vehicle just for them,� says Escalade product manager David Schiavone. The Escalade has to be a truck first and an homage to image somewhere further down the priority scale.

It does succeed. In our unscientific yet thoroughly real-world test, this third-generation ’Sclade stands out no matter where it traverses: grocery getting, nights out under bright city lights, cross-state highway runs and slogs through foot-deep mud. We did it all to prove this truck is a truck, even though it wears 22-inch chrome wheels and has plush leather seats and a rear-seat entertainment system. Jim Fets/www.fetsphoto.comStart with new drivetrain components. A 6.2-liter aluminum V8 making 403 hp and 417 lb-ft, up 58 hp and 37 lb-ft from the old 6.0-liter, mates with a new six-speed automatic in place of the old four-speed. The combination boosts highway fuel economy 12 percent even as it improves performance.

The Escalade has all the other hardware expected (and then some) in a full-size luxury ute: full-time all-wheel drive with a new locking rear differential; more responsive rack-and-pinion steering replaces the recirculating-ball setup; coilover front shocks and Road Sensing Suspension (with variable shock valving); and four-wheel discs beefed up to bring a bigger Escalade ESV (due in May, followed by the EXT model in June) to a halt.

The loaded test vehicle also sported a sunroof, power fold-and-tumble second-row seats, the DVD entertainment system, heated and cooled front seats (with heated steering wheel) and an information package. Escalade information includes navigation, back-up camera and headlamps that sense other cars’ lights and turn on (or dim) the appropriate beams accordingly. The option list totaled $8,830, taking the Cadillac’s sticker to more than $66,000. Jim Fets/www.fetsphoto.comInside the Escalade ladles on comfort and quiet. Engineers stiffened the chassis, paid extra attention to panel fits, emphasized sound-deadening materials and used hydraulic engine mounts to isolate the thrum to the cabin.

At a boutique grocery the jet-black Escalade stands out as a big and bold oasis in a sea of look-alike luxury utes. On the open road the SUV is an able highway runner, with loads of V8 power and torque. It clearly matches experiences with other luxury utes, while showing itself to be much worthier than the previous-generation model.

But shops where you can load up on shiitake mushrooms and tomatillos aside, we wanted to prove this ute is an off-road brute. Off-road driving, coming just a day after the National Weather Service rescinded flood warnings due to heavy rainfall in Michigan, showed the Escalade remarkably capable—as good as some Land Rovers we recently tested in similar conditions. Jim Fets/www.fetsphoto.com“It handled all the mud we could throw at it,� beamed Charlie Mann, owner of Hunters Creek Club in Metamora, Michigan. Mann led our excursion into two-tracks and rutted hunting trails off the plotted roads shown on the eight-inch navigation screen (though, thankfully, the unnamed ponds and creeks did appear).

If marketing man Schiavone does his work right, the Escalade will pop up in a range of urban and suburban environments... but he won’t discourage those who want to go off-road.

“It’s a beautiful vehicle capable of doing many things,� Schiavone says. “Can people take it off-road? Absolutely. But that’s for the owner to decide.�

Should you decide to take the road less traveled, know that along with the bling, the new Escalade does a bang-up job off the beaten path as well.
Everyman’s Escalade
Not everyone wants—or needs—General Motors’ bejeweled top-of-the-line Cadillac Escalade full-size sport/utility vehicle. At the denim end of the scale is the value-oriented 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe (and sister GMC Yukon—see “GM’s Ray of Sunshine,� March 13), with pricing that starts $19,000 below the base Escalade.

Tahoe comes with a smaller 5.3-liter V8, matched to a four-speed automatic. Unlike the Cadillac, the Chevy truck’s powerplant is equipped with fuel-saving cylinder-deactivation technology that cuts the engine to four cylinders when all eight aren’t needed.

Though Tahoe’s option list is rich enough to easily drive this SUV past the $50,000 mark, Chevy expects most buyers will opt for the middling Tahoe, which at $44,000 offers a nice mix of comfort (heated leather first- and second-row seats, tri-zone temperature control, remote start and XM radio) with a load of functionality (power-adjustable pedals, rear park assist, power folding second row, power liftgate, locking rear differential, third-row seating).

Tahoe isn’t intended to be an Escalade, and we’re betting that is exactly the way most buyers want it.

die foto van de koffer doet het echt

[Timo]

ik hoop dat de dealers er hier snel ene van staan hebben!

[Gast]

Wordt verzonden naar:EuropaObjectlocatie:Naarden, Nederland

Uiteindelijke biedprijs:EUR 38.600,00

Ocharme die man als daar nog is BPM bijkomt voor een BLS uiteindelijk?

[Timo]

op zo'n prachtige STS-V plaatsen ze van die lelijke chrome velgen

[Timo]

[Gast]

Zonder die zwarte elementen erin zou het zo slecht nog niet geweest zijn, maar er bestaan idd mooiere velgen.

[Timo]

STS V8



STS V8 +BLS

[bobo]

uw zuster mag er best zijn

[Alexx]

[Timo]

ik vraag me eigenlijk is af of de STS-V en XLR-V al leverbaar zijn, want ik heb nog niks gehoord over tests of echte exacte prijzen

[Timo]

[Timo]

BLS 2.8 V6 turbo 260km/u (ongeveer toch)



hier een paar filmpjes

http://www.zippyvideos.com/229410372...100_to_240_km/

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5083828605083696/bls250km/

is allemaal in Duitsland

[Alexx]

ik zou het eigenlijk niet weten.
en cadillac heeft blijkbaar geen site in belgië zelf..
dus vindtk ik het ook niet..

[Gast]

BRON

[Gast]

BLS 2.8 V6 turbo 260km/u (ongeveer toch)



hier een paar filmpjes

http://www.zippyvideos.com/229410372...100_to_240_km/

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5083828605083696/bls250km/

is allemaal in Duitsland

Gaat dat maar 250 zo een Saab Aero?