Cadillac Escalade became a trendsetter in the re-emergence of a world-class luxury vehicle brand. Its sharp exterior appearance coupled with great styling design plus a luxurious, comfortable, and accommodating interior, creates a brand that will be known to Cadillac Escalades. After 5 years, more features were added for 2004. The Escalade is built on GM's excellent full-size truck platform that makes it a great fine truck and an excellent towing vehicle, nonetheless, its road performance is still smooth, and stable. In 2002, it was introduced as an all-new model, and two trim models succeeded it, the EXT and the ESV which shares interiors, refreshed for the 2003 model year.