Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas-guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams? What was the target customer-segment for these beasts of the road that were seemingly designed without the slightest regard for prevailing environmental or geopolitical circumstances? If these historians had to choose one vehicle as a typical case study in this endeavor, they could not start with a more suitable candidate than the 2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT..



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