Escalade Sport Platinum Rental in Los Angeles
The black Cadillac Escalade Sport Platinum with the black and dark wood interior is based in Los Angeles. It is the car you book when the people in the back matter more than the person driving, 7 seats, a quiet cabin to take a call in, and a silhouette the valet waves to the front. Black on black is the working spec, the airport car, the studio lot car. Delivery runs through Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
How It Drives
The air suspension is the mechanism. Platinum adds Air Ride Adaptive Suspension on top of the magnetic dampers, and together they read the road 1,000 times a second, so the expansion joints on Wilshire and the grooves on the 405 arrive as sound, not as movement. You climb in, not step in, and the 38 inch curved screen runs across the dash in front of a high, flat hood. The 6.2L V8 starts with a short chuff and goes quiet. At a cruise it shuts down half its cylinders and the cabin is near silent. Floor it and 420 hp comes through as a low, distant rumble, 0 to 60 in about 6 seconds. Steering is light, tuned for parking. Its element is the freeway, the 405 from LAX up to the Westside. Chauffeur service available on request.
How It Photographs
Black on black photographs best at dusk and under garage light, which is where these photos were taken, in a downtown parking structure and against a bare concrete wall. In direct sun the gloss black turns into a mirror and the shape disappears. In open shade the machined 22 inch wheels and the black mesh grille carry the frame, and the vertical daytime running lights are the detail to shoot close. After dark the long vertical tail lights do everything, so a hotel entrance at night is the picture. Take the front three-quarter from low, with the hood above eye level. In Los Angeles, shoot it at the Downtown LA Proper Hotel or on the Sunset Strip at night.
Why This One
We run 7 Escalades and this is the only standard-length one based in Los Angeles, the one that fits a Beverly Hills parking structure and a valet lane. The others are in Orange County and Palm Springs, Sport trims from $295 to $595, and the white ESV Sport Platinum is in Orange County. The Escalade-V in Los Angeles is $895 with the supercharged engine. For the full Platinum interior, the air suspension and the massage seats, in black, starting in Los Angeles, this is the car at $495.
What's On This One
This is the Escalade in Sport Platinum trim on the standard-length body. Sport brings the gloss black face, the black mesh grille, black trim and roof rails, Magnetic Ride Control and an electronic limited-slip differential. Platinum adds Air Ride Adaptive Suspension, semi-aniline leather, 18-way front seats with massage, the 36 speaker AKG Studio Reference audio with speakers in the headrests, dual 12.6 inch rear screens and soft-close doors. The body is black on 22 inch machined wheels with dark pockets. Inside it is black leather with dark open-pore wood across the dash and console, the 38 inch curved OLED display and the push-button gear selector. 6.2L V8, 420 hp, all-wheel drive, 7 seats with second row captain's chairs.
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