There is nothing subtle about the Escalade IQ, and that’s the entire point. This is a full size electric luxury SUV that weighs more than nine thousand pounds, produces up to 750 horsepower, travels up to 465 miles on a charge, and costs about as much as some people’s homes. It is enormous, extravagant, and…
Most three row family SUVs are built around a simple, sensible mission: carry seven people and their stuff in comfort, get decent fuel economy, and never, ever attempt anything more adventurous than a gravel parking lot. They are appliances, and mostly good ones. The Rivian R1S looked at that entire category and decided to do…
Cadillac’s full size electric flagship, the Escalade IQ, is a magnificent, enormous, technologically dazzling machine that also costs about as much as a small house down payment and weighs more than nine thousand pounds. It’s spectacular. It’s also more SUV than most families could ever reasonably use or afford. Which is precisely the gap the…
For years, buying an electric SUV with three genuinely usable rows of seats meant one thing: spending a fortune. The only options were expensive luxury models like the Tesla Model X or the Rivian R1S, which put electric family hauling out of reach for most people. If you needed to carry seven people and wanted…
Some cars try to dazzle you with a single standout feature, a headline horsepower number or a party trick, while quietly falling short everywhere else. The Kia EV9 does the opposite, and that’s exactly why the automotive press keeps falling over itself to praise it. It doesn’t have one flashy thing it’s best at. Instead,…
When Lucid built the Air, it proved a startup could out engineer the entire luxury sedan establishment. The obvious question was whether the company could do it again in the far more popular, far more competitive world of SUVs, where most people actually shop. The Gravity is the answer, and it’s an emphatic one. This…
The EQS Sedan had one persistent problem, and it wasn’t the luxury, the technology, or the comfort, all of which were excellent. It was the shape. That swoopy, aerodynamic, egg like silhouette divided opinion the moment it appeared and hasn’t quite won over traditional Mercedes buyers. Then Mercedes took the same superb underpinnings, the same…
The Volvo EX90 arrived carrying the weight of enormous expectations. It was meant to be Volvo’s electric flagship, the three row luxury SUV that would define the brand’s electric future and take on the best in the class. Then it launched, and the reality didn’t quite match the ambition. Early examples were plagued by software…