Cadillac's 2027 Escalade-V anniversary series is capped at 252 units

Cadillac has confirmed the 2027 Escalade-V 125th Anniversary Collector Series, a limited-edition SUV marking the brand's founding 125 years ago. Production is capped at 252 units, orders are open now, and pricing starts at around $239,000. The car is sold only in the United States and Canada.

The run is built around exclusivity rather than extra hardware. Buyers get almost no choice over the exterior beyond paint, but Cadillac does let each one select their own VIN and serial number, a personalization move that turns every truck into an individually numbered piece.

Two exterior colors are offered: Midnight Stone Frost and Vibrant White Tricoat. What is fixed includes forged 24-inch wheels, blue brake calipers and dark-finish badges, plus puddle lamps that project a heritage V-8 graphic when the doors open.

Carbon-fiber details run across the grille surround, the lower rear fascia, the mirror caps and the engine cover. It is a dress-up exercise around the Escalade-V's existing mechanical package, and Cadillac makes no claim of extra power for the special edition.

What is under the hood is unchanged and already forceful. The supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 makes 682 horsepower and carries the large SUV to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds in testing.

Cadillac is one of the luxury brands we track in our garage coverage, and the Escalade name has long anchored the top of its range. The anniversary edition is the brand's way of connecting that flagship to a history that reaches back to a 10-horsepower single-cylinder model in 1903.

That first car, the 1903 Runabout, sold for $850, the equivalent of roughly $33,300 in today's money.

Inside, the special edition ties Cadillac to its racing past through Santorini Blue. The color shows up in the stitching and the seatbelts, set against a black-and-gray cabin that also carries Collector Series floormats, exclusive interior badging and a matching blue key fob.

The blue detailing is the one deliberate nod to history in an otherwise monochrome interior. Cadillac frames the anniversary as a celebration of luxury rather than a performance tribute, even though the V badge and the 682-horsepower engine are the model's defining numbers.

What the limited run changes

The 252-unit cap is the production figure for the run. Cadillac has chosen scarcity as the selling point, and the self-selected VIN is the only way a buyer can leave a mark on a car whose specification is otherwise decided for them.

The two paint options are the only buyer-facing appearance choice. Everything else comes as standard, from the forged wheels to the carbon-fiber engine cover, which means every one of the 252 trucks rolls off the line visually identical except for its exterior color and its chosen serial.

Cadillac's parent is General Motors, and the brand has spent recent years repositioning itself around electric models such as the Escalade IQ, which we ranked among the electric SUVs now holding five of the top ten places in our guide to the best luxury SUVs.

At around $239,000, the Anniversary Collector Series prices well above the standard Escalade and lands Cadillac in a bracket it rarely has. The figure is a statement as much as a price, aimed at collectors rather than the family buyers who dominate Escalade sales.

The United States and Canada restriction narrows the audience further. Cadillac is keeping the run in its home markets, which fits the anniversary framing around American luxury heritage rather than a global push of a model that already sells widely elsewhere.

In our ranking of the most popular luxury car brands online, Cadillac has slipped outside the top ten, displaced by Aston Martin, McLaren and Bugatti as Chinese newcomer BYD and the Range Rover-led Land Rover both gained ground. A collector series like this reads as a move to reclaim attention.

Other anniversary editions have taken the same scarcity-first approach this year. Toyota limited its Land Cruiser 75th anniversary model to 75 units, and IWC marked 140 years with an anniversary special edition watch, each leaning on a small run rather than a new product.

Cadillac has not said how long the run will remain available, nor how many of the 252 units are already spoken for.