Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 15:22     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly ugly.


I don't know if it's ugly, as in offensive, but it sure isn't $100K pretty or $100K impressive. I'm not sure what motivates people to want this. What do they suspect it signals? Or is it just the current biggest SUV available, so that's why it sells?


Well I suppose they're the type of insecure people who feel the need to have very large and recognizably expensive items so they can bolster their self-esteem. And a subset of these people are indeed horribly nasty people, as a previous poster pointed out. But not all of them are. However, they're all insecure, and in terms of climate-change, monstrous polluters.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 15:20     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Anonymous wrote:In New Orleans a black woman in an Escalade tried to run me over because she wanted to enter a hotel parking lot and I was apparently in her way (I was a pedestrian crossing with a valid walk signal) and she yelled out “you better watch out because you’re gonna be underneath these tires!” At the silver spring Whole Foods (terrible city), a white military mom with her kids in the Escalade threatened to both shoot me and let her dog attack me because her Escalade was hanging over in MY parking space and she claimed my car was too close to hers and demanded I back it up ( I refused which apparently warrants my death). Right after the bridge from VA to MD it was moving a little slow one evening and a 40ish white guy was driving his Escalade at 70mph on the SHOULDER for like half a mile. The Escalade trashiness transcends race, gender, and socioeconomic status. It is the single best indicator I have ever personally encountered that someone is an absolute piece of crap


Not surprising. And that SS WF parking lot is lethal. I was nearly run over with my toddler.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 15:17     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly ugly.


I don't know if it's ugly, as in offensive, but it sure isn't $100K pretty or $100K impressive. I'm not sure what motivates people to want this. What do they suspect it signals? Or is it just the current biggest SUV available, so that's why it sells?


it sells because to certain demographics, Cadillac is still associated with luxury and class. If I wanted something like that, I'd get a spec'd out Suburban. It's 20k less, but if I really wanted that kind of an SUV I would pay a premium to not have the Cadillac badge
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 15:14     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly ugly.


I don't know if it's ugly, as in offensive, but it sure isn't $100K pretty or $100K impressive. I'm not sure what motivates people to want this. What do they suspect it signals? Or is it just the current biggest SUV available, so that's why it sells?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 15:11     Subject: Re:Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
72 month note is still a $1,500 monthly payment. You still have to make decent money to be able to afford that note, especially since this is likely 1 of 2 or 3 cars in the driveway. Just seems like such a large sum for a truck I don't know who would be impressed by? I would assume 99.9% of the people who see this thing have no idea it's a $100K car.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:57     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Incredibly ugly.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:56     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
In New Orleans a black woman in an Escalade tried to run me over because she wanted to enter a hotel parking lot and I was apparently in her way (I was a pedestrian crossing with a valid walk signal) and she yelled out “you better watch out because you’re gonna be underneath these tires!” At the silver spring Whole Foods (terrible city), a white military mom with her kids in the Escalade threatened to both shoot me and let her dog attack me because her Escalade was hanging over in MY parking space and she claimed my car was too close to hers and demanded I back it up ( I refused which apparently warrants my death). Right after the bridge from VA to MD it was moving a little slow one evening and a 40ish white guy was driving his Escalade at 70mph on the SHOULDER for like half a mile. The Escalade trashiness transcends race, gender, and socioeconomic status. It is the single best indicator I have ever personally encountered that someone is an absolute piece of crap
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:47     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Everyone I know who loves Escalades is over 60. I think they ride like traveling living rooms and older people really value that.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:47     Subject: Re:Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
I don’t care.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:46     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Anonymous wrote:CNBC reports the average sales price for these was over $100,000 (!) a few months ago. How can this many people afford a $100,000 rig?


Bonus season was really really good this year. And lots of people vested RSUs.

Also lots of leases and 72 mo loans.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:43     Subject: Re:Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
I think the black one looks like a Hearse
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:41     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
CNBC reports the average sales price for these was over $100,000 (!) a few months ago. How can this many people afford a $100,000 rig?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:39     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
Maybe a signal a heck of a lot of people made a boatload off PPP and are pulling equity out of their houses?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:38     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
I think people buy it more for the interior.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2021 14:37     Subject: Does this luxury SUV actually impress anyone?
I see so many of these. The newest generation, which came out late last year, people are paying over $90,000 each on average (so it's not like these are heavily discounted "deals"). The long daytime running lamps on the front are super obnoxious, so you can't miss seeing them from a mile away. And it's not "rappers" buying them, all I see are UMC white people driving them, often soccer moms, often elderly pensioners.

A full spec Tahoe and Yukon are just as good, far less tacky, and probably $20,000 less. So why are people buying these? I'm not against gas guzzlers or large SUVs and totally get people who may be drawn to an American assembled car (I think these are made in Texas), but I really just don't see how this thing is so popular.