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Cadillac Escalade vs. Monster Truck
http://www.theweeklydriver.com/articles/1400/1/Cadillac-Escalade-vs-Monster-Truck/Page1.html
By The Weekly Driver News Service
Published on 05/4/2009
 
The Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is most at home in the hills of Hollywood, Calif., or cruising next to South Beach in Miami, Fla. It's a big, luxurious sport utility vehicle, with 22-inch wheels, leather everything, and a gas and electric engine. So how will this biggest and most luxurious of American SUVs do when it is pushed beyond what it was originally designed to do? To find out, Roman Mica, a car reviewer in Denver, Colo., raced it against a monster truck — sort of.


Escalade

The Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is most at home in the hills of Hollywood, California, or cruising next to South Beach in Miami, Florida.

It is a big luxurious SUV with twenty-two-inch wheels, leather everything, and a gas and electric engine.

So how will this biggest and most luxurious of American SUVs do when it is pushed beyond what it was originally designed to do?

To find out,  I raced it against a monster truck — a remote control Traxxas T-Maxx monster truck, to be exact.


The challenge was a simple: to see which car would do better tackling the rough and tough mountains and dirt roads of Colorado.

To find out just watch the video below to see which car won the challenge.And as a bonus take a look at the new off road sport we created in the process:


To read more of Roman Mica's car reviews and other automotive news, visit: thefirstlemming.com.