General Motors will premiere the 2007 Escalade for the European market at the Geneva Motor Show in March, with a
market launch planned for later this year.
Cadillac is positioning the Escalade as “an icon – the
vehicle many discerning customers aspire to own,” according to Jim Taylor, Cadillac general manager. Cadillac
already sells the CTS sedan, SRX crossover, STS luxury sedan , XLR luxury roadster, and the V-series performance
variants in Europe.
It will be interesting to see if Cadillac’s “Chrome Couture” advertising
campaign will make it across the pond along with the luxury sport-ute, but the Cadillac brand certainly posted
promising results overseas in 2005, with strong sales in China, the Middle East
and Europe, so prospects for the new Escalade certainly seem, uh…, bright.
[Source: GM]