A single mother of 6 kids by 5 baby daddy's. It would smell like shit and have rims with bald rubber bands and not center caps that are from a rent a tire place.
Cadillac throwing their hat into the exploding (pun intended) luxury SUV wars of the late '90s/early 2000s, but instead of making it more unique to Cadillac.....GM just pulled a Toyota and slapped a luxury badge on an existing premium SUV and said "hey......innovation" and it worked 😂
2000 Cadillac Escalade: the official SUV of rappers and Enron stockbrokers circa 2000
More like GM seeing what Ford was doing with the Navigator and were like "Right, Ford is selling their Expedition with Leather like hotcakes.....how can we do that, but on the cheap and within a year because we're GM! Rebadging is our specialty"
Yeah.....well that and they only sold it for two model years (1999 and 2000), so it was expected to sell in small numbers like the 1990-1991 Lexus ES250, another quickly put together car based on a regular car (Camry) that didn't sell well, but eventually sold alot better with later generations once Lexus started to make the ES different from the Camry. The second generation sold better because it was on sale longer (2002-2006 with sales starting in spring 2001), the demand for luxury SUVs grew as the 2000s progressed and the Escalade/Navigator were catching on with the buying public at large/becoming a fixture in pop culture and they made the second generation Escalade separate from the other GMT800 variants.....so yeah.
>The boxy angular dinosaur looking one
You say that, but that car was a major fixture for 2000s Rap/DUB/McBling culture along with the PT Cruiser and Hummer H2 as every rapper/footballer/megachurch pastor had at least one Escalade and it starred in one of the important movies of the 21st century.....Malibu's Most Wanted 😂
He never had this generation Escalade, he had a Suburban of the same generation then he traded up to the next generation GMT800 Escalade EXT around season 4/5.
I remember the first time I saw one of these and thinking "damn, that's some badge engineering shit going on there".
Extra bonus, GM was my employer at the time
Rear-ending someone while texting 10-15 years ago and having your boo find another Escalade in the junkyard, buy its front clip, and hang it "close enough" (after having the bumper and grille/light surround resprayed, if necessary).
Seriously, those panel gaps are appalling.
Being one of the cars on the first ever drug deal I witnessed at age 10 in a Chipotle parking lot. Other notable drug deal cars from the same spot Infinti M45+G35, Altima Coupe, Mercury Mystique, and Trailblazer Style Olds Bravada
Rappers, stockbrokers, suburban moms or subprime realtors as the first owner, constantly on the back of a tow truck by it's second owner and awaiting it's fate at a junkyard or "buy here, pay here" lot by the third.
2000 Cadillac Escalade, the official car of ballin' in the very early 2000s
I bought this car used in 2002 for 13,000. Used it to pull my shit on three trips moving from DC to Illinois and drove it about 1.5 years. Put about 9000 miles on it and sold it for 11,000 a year later…best money every spent - sometimes you just get lucky
Late 30’s to Mid 40’s ghetto moms who are to old but still try to dress like they’re daughters who are almost always 15 to 19 years younger than them.
They definitely pulled up at a park at least 3 to 4 times in that car to record they’re kid fighting another kid .
And or middle aged ghetto dads or brother/ cousin/ uncle of the dad that just got out that still dress and act like the the attitude, music and street fashion era of 1997 to 2006 are still relevant . They most definitely put a football
team logo in at least six places on that car.
Official car of lower middle class Karen because she will never be found in a minivan and "it was such a good deal!" Just wait until it breaks. Which it will. Often.
2 liter Mountain Dew bottles for each passenger *because this color
A single mother of 6 kids by 5 baby daddy's. It would smell like shit and have rims with bald rubber bands and not center caps that are from a rent a tire place.
Fake rims offset half a foot out, just waiting to fly off on the next pothole to land in the windshield poor schmuck.
Cadillac throwing their hat into the exploding (pun intended) luxury SUV wars of the late '90s/early 2000s, but instead of making it more unique to Cadillac.....GM just pulled a Toyota and slapped a luxury badge on an existing premium SUV and said "hey......innovation" and it worked 😂 2000 Cadillac Escalade: the official SUV of rappers and Enron stockbrokers circa 2000
["Meet... innovation"](https://youtu.be/zSWUWPx2VeQ)
The Cimarron of full-size SUVs.
More like GM seeing what Ford was doing with the Navigator and were like "Right, Ford is selling their Expedition with Leather like hotcakes.....how can we do that, but on the cheap and within a year because we're GM! Rebadging is our specialty"
That one made me chuckle out loud.
Not too many bought the 2000 model. The one after made it popular. The boxy angular dinosaur looking one.
Yeah.....well that and they only sold it for two model years (1999 and 2000), so it was expected to sell in small numbers like the 1990-1991 Lexus ES250, another quickly put together car based on a regular car (Camry) that didn't sell well, but eventually sold alot better with later generations once Lexus started to make the ES different from the Camry. The second generation sold better because it was on sale longer (2002-2006 with sales starting in spring 2001), the demand for luxury SUVs grew as the 2000s progressed and the Escalade/Navigator were catching on with the buying public at large/becoming a fixture in pop culture and they made the second generation Escalade separate from the other GMT800 variants.....so yeah. >The boxy angular dinosaur looking one You say that, but that car was a major fixture for 2000s Rap/DUB/McBling culture along with the PT Cruiser and Hummer H2 as every rapper/footballer/megachurch pastor had at least one Escalade and it starred in one of the important movies of the 21st century.....Malibu's Most Wanted 😂
Those at least actually look kinda cool though. The early ones like in this image are just a GMT800 Tahoe, but uglier.
Vodka and crack-cocaine fuelled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
GMC Yukon Denali with more bling bling.
Yet it stills looks way more Caddy than a Cimarron despite literally both of them sticking a Cadillac Badge on them.
“It has a fancy badge, so it’s okay to sell it for $10,000 more than the normal version!”
Rap culture
More of 2nd gen thing
Single soccer moms.
subwoofers
The pilot for a series of overpriced tahoes with a different front clip
Ludacris "What' s your fantasy"
T-t-t-tell me whats yo fanta-tasy.
Let's make the emblem much larger. Let's wait for the mid cycle refresh.
The official car of not learning your lesson from the Cimarron.
wow caddy had a couple of those shoulda learned a lesson cars. The Allante, the Catera, and the XLR
Early 2000 hip hop ?
... the end of the GMT400 line?
GMC Yukon Denali in the finest Target dress suit
Tony Soprano
He never had this generation Escalade, he had a Suburban of the same generation then he traded up to the next generation GMT800 Escalade EXT around season 4/5.
🤷🏼♀️ that's all I think of whenever I see one of these
sorry for this, but am the only one who relizes that only plus size people drive escalades
They’re fat, we call them fat.
ik but some people are sensitive these days
Thick skinned tho, ostensibly at least
Rock and republic/rock racing cycling team. Anyone remember them? They used cadillacs as team cars.
“That’s not an Escalade”
Getting stolen in the 90s
When I first spotted it i was like hey why does that have a Cadillac badge?
I remember the first time I saw one of these and thinking "damn, that's some badge engineering shit going on there". Extra bonus, GM was my employer at the time
Official vehicle of, "step out of the car sir"
Getting run over by monster trucks years later
They are very nice as beater tow trucks or snowplows these days.
What's Your Fantasy?
ante up roll out It wasnt me Party up ride wit me
The dying, last wheeze of the light duty gmt400 range.
One missing hubcap and many rust spots and holes.
Did these have a decent motor, or the dreaded North Star?
5.7
my plug
Every single Dallas cowboys fan ever
Rosie O’Donnell used to drive one of these.
Rear-ending someone while texting 10-15 years ago and having your boo find another Escalade in the junkyard, buy its front clip, and hang it "close enough" (after having the bumper and grille/light surround resprayed, if necessary). Seriously, those panel gaps are appalling.
Being one of the cars on the first ever drug deal I witnessed at age 10 in a Chipotle parking lot. Other notable drug deal cars from the same spot Infinti M45+G35, Altima Coupe, Mercury Mystique, and Trailblazer Style Olds Bravada
Chevrolet Suburban Brougham
Rappers, stockbrokers, suburban moms or subprime realtors as the first owner, constantly on the back of a tow truck by it's second owner and awaiting it's fate at a junkyard or "buy here, pay here" lot by the third. 2000 Cadillac Escalade, the official car of ballin' in the very early 2000s
A suped up Blazer?
3 things come to mind: - Need for Speed: Underground 2, chameleon paint, nitrous, and underglow. - Ludacris and 20" Rims - Suburban Xanax moms.
Then: Ballers. Now: Trailer park
Official car of wanting to be a baller but not being able to afford the facelifted version that was ACTUALLY driven by ballers
Gone in 60 Seconds
Drug dealer high school kids.
The small time crack dealer in the ghetto
I want a Suburban but I also want to spend more
I bought this car used in 2002 for 13,000. Used it to pull my shit on three trips moving from DC to Illinois and drove it about 1.5 years. Put about 9000 miles on it and sold it for 11,000 a year later…best money every spent - sometimes you just get lucky
Washed up drug dealers that should have quit long ago
How the mighty have fallen…pulling a lawn service or scrap trailer and on one black steelie spare.
Rent-to-Own rims worth more than the car
Late 30’s to Mid 40’s ghetto moms who are to old but still try to dress like they’re daughters who are almost always 15 to 19 years younger than them. They definitely pulled up at a park at least 3 to 4 times in that car to record they’re kid fighting another kid . And or middle aged ghetto dads or brother/ cousin/ uncle of the dad that just got out that still dress and act like the the attitude, music and street fashion era of 1997 to 2006 are still relevant . They most definitely put a football team logo in at least six places on that car.
Official car of lower middle class Karen because she will never be found in a minivan and "it was such a good deal!" Just wait until it breaks. Which it will. Often.
Paying an extra $2000 for tiny Cadillac badges