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Model guide

Importing a Cadillac Escalade

Two metres wide before the mirrors. Measure your garage, then read this.

Not sold here — and the engine decides everything.

The petrol Escalade has no European homologation, so the CO₂ substitute is the risk that dominates the price. The electric Escalade IQ is a completely different proposition: exempt from NoVA, and the only version where we can quote a landed figure with confidence today.

Why the CO₂ figure decides the price

Austria charges NoVA on a car's CO₂ emissions, and it will not accept the American EPA number. The law works down a ladder: a WLTP figure if one exists, otherwise a European NEFZ figure multiplied by 1.27, and failing both a substitute of engine power in kilowatts × 2. That last step is not a formality — on a powerful car it can add tens of thousands of euro, and it is the single largest variable in any American import.

Because this model has no European homologation, that figure may not exist for the exact car you want — which is why we establish the basis in writing before anyone commits to anything.

What we will not do

We will not send you a landed price for a car whose CO₂ basis has not been settled. A number we might have to raise by fifty thousand euro is worse than no number at all. Ask us about a specific car and you get the basis, the calculation and a firm figure within one working day.

In the order book

We can source the 2026 Cadillac Escalade IQ Sport to order.

See the car & what it includes

Work it out yourself

The import calculator runs the same engine we use, at today's ECB exchange rate. Put in the US asking price and it will show you the duty, the VAT and both NoVA outcomes — with a figure, and with the substitute — so you can see the size of the gap for yourself.

Thinking about a Cadillac Escalade?

Tell us the car and we will establish what Austria will actually charge on it, in writing, before you commit to anything.

Describe the car