{"id":36215,"date":"2026-05-31T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36215"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:35:52","slug":"payne-in-the-cadillac-escalade-theres-always-a-button-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/payne-in-the-cadillac-escalade-theres-always-a-button-for-that","title":{"rendered":"Payne: In the Cadillac Escalade, there&#8217;s always a button for that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PDTN\/90272007007-cadillac-escalade-premium-fr-34.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2026 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Sport combines peak luxury with the assured road-trip range of a gas, V-8 engine.\" width=\"506\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2026 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Sport combines peak luxury with the assured road-trip range of a gas, V-8 engine.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Sterling Heights<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 With 420 horsepower and a satisfying roar, the 6.2-liter pushrod V-8 engine under the hood of my 2026 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Sport tester would usually be my obsession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But eight is a trivial number in the Platinum Sport model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What has my attention in the Platinum Sport are the\u00a0<em>dozens<\/em>\u00a0of buttons that operate a cornucopia of automatic functions on this rolling condominium: auto doors, seats, tailgate, drawers, TV screens and Super Cruise hands-free driving. At $131K, Platinum Sport is an expensive automobile \u2014 but an affordable condo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/05\/28\/review-in-the-cadillac-escalade-theres-always-a-button-for-that\/90266784007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Sport combines peak luxury with the assured road-trip range of a gas, V-8 engine. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Sterling Heights\u00a0\u2014 With 420 horsepower and a satisfying roar, the 6.2-liter pushrod V-8 engine under the hood of my 2026 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Sport tester would usually be my obsession. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36216,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions\/36216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}