# 5 It’s got space
I refer here to the vehicle, not the cave. The first thing Amy wanted to bring up regarding the SUV is the three rows of seats it contains. Crucially, the middle row of seats can easily be moved out of the way to permit those getting into the third row to actually get in it. Even with that, though, those folks still need to negotiate the high entry threshold. Once in, the seats themselves are rough on the butt. On the other hand, headroom is such that the test sombrero on my head had plenty of room to breathe.
My lazy side – the dominant one, alas – also loved that it takes only a push of a button to send one or the other of the 50/50 fold-down last-row seats down or up. That’s standard equipment, by the way.
The Premium Luxury trim of the XT6 gets exotic wood accents, while the Sport version prefers to dress in carbon-fibre. Outside, the two variants are differentiated from the others essentially by the presence of chrome or black edges; the Sport gets to play with optional 21-inch wheels.
# 6 It’s luxury all the way
In addition to the physical buttons on the dashboard, console and steering wheels, a rotating knob allows you to work the 8-inch central screen without covering it in smudges from your finger. The Bose Performance Series audio with 14 speakers is crisp enough to make even Bob Dylan’s most muffled mumblings decipherable. As a bonus, you get six USB inputs, two per row of leather-clad seats.
You won’t be surprised to know that the XT6 comes with a host of drive-assist systems; you shouldn’t be surprised that half of them are options, not standard features. And what about Super Cruise, you ask? It would have been nice to call on GM’s AI system that delivers semi-autonomous driving capability as I drove the uneventful route that runs parallel to the Saint-Lawrence between Quebec’s two largest cities. This system, GM’s rough equivalent to Tesla’s AutoPilot and Nissan ProPilot, is currently available on Cadillac’s 2021 CT5, CT5-V, CT4-V and Escalade models – but not, yet, on the XT6. And no one, not Amy and not anyone else officially related to Cadillac, was able to tell me when the SUV might get it.