2016 Callaway Escalade SC560 Review: Photo Gallery

CARS.COM — Nailing its target demographic of luxury SUV shoppers for whom the Cadillac Escalade is just too darned subtle, the Callaway Escalade SC560 tunes it up and tricks it out to a much more appropriate level of ostentatious. We recently got to spend a little track time in this ridiculous thing at Roebling Road Raceway outside Savannah, Ga., and we gotta say, it’s ridiculous.

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Callaway Cars, the Connecticut-based aftermarket performance-enhancing design house closely associated with its work on Chevrolet Corvettes, took a mere mortal 2016 Cadillac Escalade ESV, and supercharged and intercooled its 6.2-liter V-8 for a 33 percent boost in horsepower and 20 percent boost in torque to 560 hp and 553 pounds-feet, respectively.

Why would you want to do this? For the same reason Fiat Chrysler Automobiles created a 707-hp, supercharged Grand Cherokee in the Trackhawk, and the same reason George Mallory said he climbed Mount Everest: Because it’s there.

Beyond unnecessary performance capabilities, the Callaway Escalade is also packed with abundant Callaway-branded stuff lest you forget you coughed up as much as $115,000, according to some estimates, for the privilege of a Callaway-ified Caddy.

We drove the 2016, but we can tell you that the 2017 comes standard with a Callaway exhaust, Callaway carbon-fiber engine covers with SC560 emblems, a Callaway underhood build plaque with VIN, Callaway exterior badging, a Callaway dash plaque, Callaway-embroidered floor mats, Callaway key fobs and a Callaway authenticity documentation package. That’s in addition to optional Callaway nine-spoke wheels, a Callaway suspension system, a Callaway Le Mans GT brake system and Callaway sport pedals.

Why, this bad boy couldn’t be more Callaway if you had a set of Callaway golf clubs in the back and friggin’ Cab Calloway crooning “Minnie the Moocher” in the front. Check out the photo gallery above to see for yourself.