Here’s What the 2025 Escalade Will Have in Store

• Cadillac updates the Escalade SUV for 2025, with the model featuring a new front fascia based on the style of the brand's latest electric models, in addition to a slightly revised rear fascia.

• A number of interior elements have been updated as well for 2025, including a new steering wheel spoke design, and a 55-inch pillar-to-pillar infotainment screen making its way into the Escalade from the electric Escalade IQ.

• The current-gen Escalade was introduced for the 2021 model year, with the 2025 update retaining the powertrain lineup.

While the current Cadillac Escalade still feels new—the latest generation arrived on the scene in 2021—it's already time for a major mid-cycle refresh. Cadillac did just that, revealing exterior and interior updates to its flagship for 2025, as part of an effort to keep the best-selling full-size SUV crisp and modern for another few years.

The updated front fascia takes inspiration from Cadillac's latest electric models, bringing it closer in line to the current family look by embracing a vertical lighting arrangement and an illuminated front crest. The rear fascia has been tweaked as well in a more subtle manner, with new rear lighting elements added in a vertical pattern.

Three unique grille textures will be offered depending on trim, with the Luxury model adopting a pointillized appearance, while the Platinum model will offer horizontal chrome bars. The Sport flavor, meanwhile, will offer a muted, black honeycomb look to the grille.

An illuminated grille surround will be on the menu as well, but will be offered solely on the V-Series and Platinum Luxury trims, lending the Escalade a bolder and more modern look.

"The 2025 Escalade continues the design story introduced in the 2021 Escalade, but with thoughtful and dramatic updates that showcase the best of what Cadillac has to offer," said Vicente Beire, lead designer of updated Escalade.

When it comes to exterior appearance, Cadillac is going big for 2025 with 24-inch wheels in three styles—the largest ever offered on this model straight from the factory. But these will still be an optional extra, so buyers will have the choice of more sidewall with 22-inch wheels in a choice of five styles.

In addition, three new exterior colors will join the menu including Deep Sea Metallic featuring a blue hue with a touch of gold, Aegean Stone with a deep green gray appearance, and Latte Metallic offering a bronze look with a metallic finish.

On the inside, the 2025 model will feature a subtly restyled steering wheel design, but the star of the show will easily be the 55-inch infotainment screen stretching from pillar to pillar. This item replaces the earlier 38-inch OLED screen that debuted with the 2021 model, with the larger screen being an item we saw introduced on the electric Celestiq and Escalade IQ.

Ultra-wide screens like this becoming the hallmark of the top luxury sedans and SUVs, whether electric or not.

Coupled with an executive second-row package, middle-row passengers will get their own 12.6-inch screens, in addition to other goodies including massaging seats, stowable tray tables, and dual phone charging pads.

Speaking of items that are now commonly found in luxury flagships, 126-color ambient lighting will be offered in the 2025 as well, in two distinct zones.

In addition, two new interior palette options will join the menu, including Renaissance Red offering quilted and perforated seats coupled with a dark open pore wood veneer. Another new palette choice, dubbed Jet Black and transparent Gray, will serve up contrasting leather and gray fabric along with a high-gloss wood veneer featuring linear marquetry.

"The 2025 Escalade continues many elements our customers expect, including both ride and seating comfort, passenger seating capacity, and cargo space and flexibility, as well as Cadillac's ride and handling philosophy," added Martin Hayes, Escalade chief engineer.

The 2025 Escalade will enter production later this year, with detailed pricing for the six trims set to be revealed closer to the model's market launch.

Should Cadillac keep the electric models as stylistically separate from its internal combustion offerings as possible, as Mercedes-Benz has done, or should the entire Cadillac lineup have a more cohesive, family look? Let us know what you think in the comments below.