DETROIT — Cadillac is launching a efficiency variant of the Escalade for the 2023 mannequin 12 months.

The posh model teased the Escalade V-Collection in a video Thursday and confirmed the brand new variant on Friday.

The automobile is the model’s top-selling nameplate in the US and second best-selling automobile in Canada.

Cadillac will share automobile and efficiency specs when the SUV is formally revealed this spring.

The Escalade, redesigned for the 2021 mannequin 12 months, a Cadillac pillar for greater than 20 years and one among GM’s most worthwhile nameplates, is the highest vendor within the full-size luxurious SUV section.

It racked up U.S. gross sales of greater than 40,000 in 2021, in accordance with the Automotive Information Knowledge and Analysis Middle. It was adopted by the Mercedes-Benz GL/GLS, Land Rover Vary Rover Sport and Land Rover Defender.

It was additionally the highest vendor within the section in Canada, the place it bought 2,692 items final 12 months. The Land Rover Vary Rover Sport and Mercedes-Benz GL/GLS rounded out the highest three.

The V-series variant is a chance for Cadillac to drum up much more pleasure for the Escalade franchise, stated Paul Waatti, supervisor of trade evaluation at AutoPacific.

The Escalade-V will doubtless be probably the most highly effective three-row SUV when it launches, he stated.

“Escalade consumers have been clamoring over a V-series efficiency mannequin because it launched,” stated Waatti. “We’ve but to see a ceiling on how a lot shoppers will spend on luxurious SUVs.”

The very best-priced 2022 Escalade trim, Sport Platinum, begins at greater than $92,000 in Canada, in accordance with the model’s web site.

Cadillac has supplied a V-Collection possibility on the CT4 and CT5 sedans since 2020. The 2022 CT5 V-Collection Blackwing turned probably the most highly effective automobile Cadillac had ever constructed.

Cadillac declined to say whether or not the Escalade-V will get the Blackwing track-capable energy and badging.