>>28510216 (samefag)
Dependability is yet another part of cachet IMO, and though the Escalade has had a few bumps with AFM and the 4L60, you largely still see 20+ year old Escalades rolling around, even if they're half rotted out with pieces missing. The Navigators, on the other hand, don't seem to last nearly as long. Once the suspension causes them to collapse like a lowrider, it seems their owners almost never fix them back up. They used the 5.4 long enough for me not to hate on it, but it's also a fact that GM trucks and vans with Vortec V8s can easily go 500k+ miles (or easily 500hp, hence the LQ9 6.0 being an immensely popular "LS swap").

Add all that together, and yeah, don't forget that the Navigator dropped the V8 and doesn't even have it as an option anymore while you can get an Escalade with a supercharged V8 (and a diesel until recent), and as I said earlier I don't think the Navigator has ever been able to keep pace. Even if we wanted to go as far as muh infotainment, the Escalade offers one of the industry's first and only OLED, curved screens. The Navigator still has yet to even have OLED.
>inb4 muh reddit spacing
Didn't want a wall of text.