G'day Flow Plane. Here we have a Cadillac Escalade because Cadillac was like,
do you want an Escalade for a week? And we were like, yeah, we do. So here we are. First test.
We have a bunch of people and we need to take the lab before we go and shoot our short. So
let's just do that. How many dudes can you fit in here? All of them. That's the answer. It is
freaking massive. Oh, did you see that? The sill auto retracts. It is so sick.
Hello guys. This is Cadillac ASMR. I'm going to whisper into this.
Okay. It has running boards, running boards that just pop out. That's so sick.
It's got captain seating. This is a great camera vehicle.
How low does it go? It doesn't go very much lower.
Does this thing have ventilated and heated seats like even in the back here?
I don't know. We've confirmed you can fit five very large guys in here. No problem.
Are you calling me heavy? Is your nickname?
It's okay because he's very strong. All right, come around here to the front.
This thing is freaking massive. I think that I saw a test a little while ago where you can
fit 16 kids sitting down in front of this before you can see them. It's brutal. Like
you hit someone in this and they die. We can go on a long conversation about safety regulations
of SUVs and why it's absolutely just terrible. But anyway, it go fast. Well, it doesn't go fast.
It's 6,200 pounds, but we do have a 6.2 liter V8 in here that makes a wonderful 420 horsepower.
Very nice. Now, this isn't the most powerful version that you get. We only got the 140
grand version. They do have a 160 grand version that has a supercharger that has like 600 horsepower
or something stupid like that. Anyway, headlights work real good. And at the nighttime, I don't
know if you can tell now, but the way this thing is lit is so impressive. All around the sides
light up when you go to get in at night. It looks so thick. Right here is where you fill her up.
Premium fuel only. Oh, recommended actually. I guess you'll probably just lose some horsepower
if you put in regular. Fun fact, if you buy this in BC, you need to pay a gas guzzler tax of $2,000
because the efficiency of this thing is just absolutely horrendous. I think combined 16.5
liters per 100 kilometers, brutal.
Yeah, you press on the logo, trunk goes up, and we have rear seats that electronically go down.
Heck yeah. It's quite satisfying, I do have to say. You can do this from the front as well if,
I don't know, you want to prank your friends in the back. As for trunk space,
it's not quite as much as I was hoping for. Like you'd think there'd be a bunch of spots down here
to chuck stuff. You can't. But that said, if you want to store things, again, you can get all of
this space right here. And it is, yeah, you can fit a lot of PCs in this. We can also have a quick
little gander at our speakers. Well, a couple of them. This thing has 36 speakers in it. It's
ridiculous. And I think back here somewhere is an a 10 and a half inch sub. Yeah, I think it's
this guy. And all of this side here is the enclosure for it. So you have like a 20 liter
volume for the sub to, you know, do it stuff. It bumps pretty hard. One thing that's pretty stupid,
you have your key, you know, you double press this button right here to release the whole thing.
Whereas this one right here, you double press to release the glass. Now let's see what happens
when you do double press it. Oh, it worked. Wow. Okay, never mind. That's exactly what I was expecting
it to do. When I did this in the past, it would release this and then the whole thing would come
up. I wonder what happens if I double press and long? No, it's just working now. Okay,
so that's what I would expect to do. It wasn't the other day. Well, good job, Cadillac.
You do what makes sense, except for when you don't, because your software is probably trash.
Anyway, should we get into it? This thing's frigging luxurious.
I didn't get, don't go into this. First thing you get in here, these seats are very comfortable.
Now we fortunately have adjustable bolsters right here. So that can come in and hug me nice.
Now that said, the bottom of the seat is, um, it's pretty American spec. So
you know, I sit on it, it feels just fine. If your arse is like twice as large as mine,
you're still going to be very comfortable in this. Whereas like you get in my golf and it's
not going to be fun. We also have a massive panoramic, we have a massive panoramic sunroof.
And what's very nice is a lot of the time when you have huge pieces of glass like this,
you don't get an actual sunroof, but here, boom, you get a sunroof as well. I absolutely love to
see that. We have Android Auto, which is excellent because Cadillac software leaves a little bit to
be desired. It's not the worst. It's not the best. Uh, you control all of it through here.
Oh, just have a little look right here. It does kind of suck how this is like,
it doesn't occupy the whole screen. Whereas you go to the Cadillac interface
and it just looks way nicer when you go to the little knobby here.
This is my favorite way to interact with it. You just go in here, press sick,
play crab rave on title.
So we do have some options here. This has the AKG 36 speaker studio reference sound thing.
And we have the option. So you put it to stereo here and you get no surround and I don't know,
it sounds very stereo. You can go all the way to surround 3d and
basically what you're doing is sacrificing clarity for more effect. So
if we get it all the way over there, it's fully enveloping me, but at the same time,
I feel like you lose a lot of detail. I like it somewhere in the middle.
Okay, let's uh, let's just go full gross.
One thing that is very unfortunate about this is that you only get options for travel,
mid range and bass. I really wish that they had a subwoofer option because I don't like
bumping the bass because that starts somewhere around like 200 Hertz and goes down. I find that
that just kind of muddies everything. Whereas like, I want a subwoofer one so that somewhere around
like 40 Hertz, we can pick it up because when you're driving around all of the bumps on the road
and stuff, I feel like they kind of mask the low frequencies. So like, I really like it when in a
car, you can from 40 to like 15 db, just have like a five db tilt or something like that.
So like when you get those like big old bass drops, it just feels like it continues on forever.
I love it. That said, it's very hard to complain about this system. It's not,
I find the treble a little bit tiring when you listen to it at high volumes because like we've
got like speaker here, two there, couple there. I'm guessing that there's just a whole bunch
of nodes because you have, you have 36 freaking speakers. Like there's no way that they're going
to be able to perfectly match everything to where your head is. So you're going to have like
this one and this one and that guy and I don't know, there's a whole bunch of speakers right here.
I think those are mics, but maybe there's speakers too. It's hard to tell. There's so freaking many
of them, but you're going to have issues with the waves from like this speaker and this one and this
one constructively and deconstructively interfering depending on where your head is. And I'm guessing
that's why I find it a little bit tiring after a while. That said,
you can really feel the rumble as it goes down. I'm just going to go straight to my
frequency generator app here. There we go.
Sorry, I had a Lord of the Rings on on Spotify here. Let's go back to frequency generator.
42 Hertz. It loves that. No problems. 42 Hertz. Let's go down 32. Again, 32. It's not even stretching.
20, 22 Hertz. It loves it. You can hear some rattling in the back. That's just the not rubber
floor mats. They're just back there for whatever reason. Now, can we go just 15? Okay, that sounds
like it's not actually doing 15. This might just be simply a problem with the frequency generator
app and Bluetooth and how they communicate. There's a good chance that like, yeah, something's just
not quite right there. But I can tell you that I've felt lower than the 21 Hertz in this thing.
It goes frickin' low. Can we just put on a song that we aren't really allowed to?
Sure. This is Bass I Love You and it has like seven Hertz tones in it. It's stupid.
We'll just crank it.
Yeah, so like, yeah, so that does have seven Hertz notes in it, which we don't feel here, but also
I would never expect a car to reproduce seven Hertz. That's just stupid. But like, it's able
to go sub 20. Like, it can go lower than your hearing actually can get and you're just feeling
it in your arse, which is incredible. I wouldn't say it's as good as the Volvo. That like,
really frickin' went. Like, that would go so far down and deep and it would just keep on digging.
It was incredible. This can't quite do that, but this is probably more accurate at those
low frequencies. Like, it feels like this has a sealed sub that is very accurately going down
past 40 Hertz, whereas the Volvo I think was, you're getting a fair bit of distortion because
the whole chassis is bonded to the sub and just being like, one thing that's nice got a 360 camera.
I have no clue how you would park without it. That said, like I have parked very large like
Silverados and ship before without a 360 camera and man is just fine. But like,
this right here, you can easily put into like a small car parking spot and just fill it side to
side and be completely accurate. You're not like that douchebag that's like taking up two spots.
Well, unless you want to be, you can do that in this. I'm sure many people do. So yeah, when you
come up, you get a light all the way underneath there and also the Cadillac logo being projected
from right there. So you can see it moves along. Are you being able to pick that up on the camera?
Nice. Especially with the way that the lights and the taillights and this right here comes on
when you walk up to it. It is friggin impressive at night time because the whole thing like whole
360 is just illuminated. It's so sick. Yeah, when you're in here, it is pretty standard interior
lighting stuff, but it is just incredibly well done because while the whole car is just very
well put together, you can see we have a light strip that goes along the edge here goes all the
way across. We've got another one in the door and down there as well. I'm guessing it's RGB,
but I haven't tried. Aha! Yep, full RGB. Sick. I think I want pink. That looks so bad.
You have a lot of color options here and most of them do not match the interior at all. How about
this? Oh, that's not too bad. I can maybe dig that. Oh wait, there's a demo mode. Oh man,
demo mode just goes like full bore, full like... It's a rage. Yep. I'm leaving it on demo mode
from now on. That's hilarious. This is 100% teenager just got their first RGB PC and super
stoked about it and I love it. So first of all, you come in here, heaps a room. You want to get
in the back? You just wait. No, wrong one. You pull that up. Boom. Two presses. You can easily get
back in there. It goes down. These seats, unsurprisingly, are very, very comfortable.
It's not as comfy as the front seats and you don't have the same kind of, you know,
adjustments and crap, but at the same time, for a rear seat, you are not going to be complaining.
Now, what also is quite a bit of fun is that say, well, for one, the sound system, you can take it
so that it is, you know, focused on the rear passengers so they have the best experience,
but if they don't like the music that you are listening to, it comes with two sets of headphones
for the rear passengers. It's so stupid and I absolutely love it. Like, look at these things.
It is so dumb and so gimmicky and well, those are not very comfortable, but at the same time,
how many cars come with their own special like Cadillac branded earphones? That's hilarious.
I have not given them a listen and honestly, I don't care too. We also, of course, have screens
for the rear passengers, you know, so we have HDMI input down here as well as USB-C. Well,
honestly, I was kind of hoping for a bit more than that. I figured that there'd be like a DVD player
or something. I guess fair enough, no one actually uses like DVDs in 2022. It would be so hilarious
to just like have a PS5 in here though. Just go on a road trip and just came the whole time.
I would really want to do that. I guess what else do we have? Rear rear seats?
Okay, not bad. It's definitely not as comfortable as the ones in front of you,
especially if they move their seat back a little bit like I have here, but at the same time,
I wouldn't complain about this. Does the center thingy come down? Oh, darn.
Okay, no armrest on the right, so that's a bit of a disappointment, but at the same time, like
this is pretty good. You could definitely stash some kids back here.
Actually, can you turn back on bass? I love you. I want to feel the sub.
Crank it. Okay, yeah. So subwoofer is without a doubt on the left here and you can really feel it when you
are in this seat. It is. That's a powerful beast. How does it drive though? Let's take
it for a little spin. Oh, it has auto tensioning seat belts. Kind of surprising sometimes.
The first thing you notice while driving this thing around is that it is freaking huge. You are
so high above everything. Like normally I have trouble in my golf seeing over this stuff. Not a
problem in this. You can just look over the top of even like SUVs and most trucks. It's pretty
nice, if I'm honest. As for the handling, if you're trying to do handling stuff, just don't buy
this. Like, have you seen it? It's 6,200 pounds of literal truck. It does not handle very amazing.
This is body on frame. So compared to some of the other SUVs that we've been driving around,
like particularly the BMW ix, the chassis control is just not there. Like we do have,
like, well GM's done their best. The best that they could do with a body on frame thing. We
have air suspension. We have their maglev stuff. It has a bunch of adaptive modes and they have
done an exceptional job with the tuning. All right, slow down here. 30 kilometers per hour
for the children's zone. I'm going to go 25 just because this thing's like
instakill. One hit, one shot, for sure. Like especially at lower speeds or when you get like
the bumps that aren't so much like bumps, but like the impulses, like right here where you just
have a bit where they tore up some of the road. Those right there really get transmitted through
the chassis. It's like kind of like a like, again, if you've driven a truck before, it feels like
you're driving a truck. That said, it does have all of the truck things that you would want. We
have the whole tow package. You're able to adjust your trailer brakes over here. Love to see that.
If I was very rich and owned a bunch of dirt bikes and dune buggies and wanted to drive across the
U.S. and did not care about gas mileage, I would choose this. Okay, flow plane. This is our one
corner that we get on our way to the super cruise destination that I'm going to be doing a short on.
So you're put into sport mode, which it actually does work fairly well. The maglev does an excellent
job at like taking out the wallow of the touring mode when you put it into sport. Actually, let's
put it into four high as well. Oh, we're going to do our one corner behind a bus. That's kind of
disappointing. Oh, wait, no. But there's people that stop. You don't have to stop there. It's a merge.
You're in an Audi. Our one corner.
Okay, we're doing it at 47 and that felt pretty fast.
For context in my golf, I can do that at 90 and it feels totally fine.
Okay, let's look at the acceleration. Here we go. We're going 65, floor it.
It takes a moment. It does take a little while, but once it downshifts and, you know, gets all of
that natural aspiration on the go, it's not that fast. Can you look up the zero to 60, Arthur?
I'm guessing it's like 7.4 seconds. That's that's my guess.
5.25. Does this have like an incredible launch? 5.0 way. Hot damn. Okay, so we confirmed it.
The zero to 60 of this is 5.1 seconds. So this must have an absolutely insane launch. I haven't
actually like launched it yet. Like brake boosted because like, I don't know.
This isn't exactly the type of car that you do that in,
but I guess we maybe need to try that out. Okay, bonus, bonus. We get one more corner.
Now this right here, I would normally do, this feels pretty good at like 100 in my golf. I can
do it at a little bit more than that. Coming in here, I would normally be at about
somewhere around like 80. We are currently at 58 and it feels way too fast. We are, she's right,
right over. Oh, no, no. I hit the gas there. And the second that it started to pitch back,
the front wheels just lost all of their grip. Oh, there's no one behind us though.
Should we just try and launch it? Yeah, that's good. All right. We have to be fast. There's a truck
behind us. Okay, someone, someone can clip that and figure out exactly what the time was. I need to,
I really need to go into my golf and properly time it. We do have a draggy. So I think my
golf is way faster than I thought now that I've tickled it with some modifications.
Because it's way faster than this. Either that or Cadillac was just lying. Anyway,
super cruise. We'll just go here. I'm going to press the button.
Super cruise unavailable. Driving it nuts off. Okay, I need to get out of the exit lane.
It is pretty impressive though that it knew which lane I was in. Okay, super cruise. Driving
next, I'm not in the exit lane anymore. God damn it. Okay, go over here. We're definitely not in
an exit lane anymore. Super cruise. Okay, we got super cruise. Hell yeah, here we go.
It honestly works incredibly well. Like I consider Tesla's autopilot stuff to kind of
be like all of the stress of having a 17 year old drive your car while you are driving it.
This right here is much more like a 22 year old that's like not super horny driving your car.
Like they're still not amazing, but at least you're not like scared for your life.
And like the biggest thing is just I feel really confident with their like adaptive cruise and the
way that it goes up to other cars and sort of goes the the one thing that I don't really like is
that it's not super good about like lane placement. This thing is really big. So if someone's kind of
cheating over on either side, you might want to like move a little bit. But that said,
it's very excellent as job right now we're driving with super cruise on and it is really freaking
good. Now it only works on the very few highways where it is mapped. But when it does work, it
works really freaking good. Like I am not concerned at all that we're going to run into that G 63
right there, which uh, what a loser. Jeez, what a cheap car that guy has. He probably wishes he
was in this thing. But as you can see, just no hands. I actually kind of trust this. I don't
super duper trust it. Like I trust myself a lot more, but compared to like autopilot or
the vast majority of lane centering things. Oh, someone just cut me off. It got really mad
the last time that happened. Nope, it's fine. Yeah, it didn't hate it that time.
But it's doing a really good job of just safely slowing us down. Yeah, it was,
that still wasn't too bad. Oh, it looks like there's an accident up here. I'm gonna take over.
Look at that idiot in their big old Land Rover. Not only do they have a poor person SUV, but they
got pulled over too. Yeah, the Cadillac Escalade. This thing's a hundred and forty thousand dollars
Canadian. Do I want it? No, absolutely not. It's so large. It's unwieldy, but it's undeniable that
has presence unlike any other vehicle on the road. You get in this thing and like you just feel like
you know that Ultima in front of us. You try and break check us. They die. You have power in this
thing unlike pretty much anything else. And like you combine that with the insane sound system.
It's just a level of it's a level of just you to everyone else that does not exist in any other
vehicle. And I kind of love it.