When you’re designing safety features on a very popular and well regarded model SUV, you never can be too careful. As a manufacturer you want to do everything possible to diminish any negative returns on your ride. General Motors is doing everything they can to help improve the 2012 Cadillac safety in their 2012 Escalade models.

Everybody wants to be liked; from their record of being stolen so much one could surmise that Escalades past were indeed very well liked. In the 2012 Cadillac safety is job number one. The Escalade in particular is going to be one model vehicle that thieves will learn quickly to pass up.

Some of the 2012 Cadillac safety features on the Escalade include things like

PASS Key 3+, an encryption system for the key, key cylinder and ignition system which is designed to deter drive-off thefts.

An improved steering column lock system. This system makes push away thefts nearly impossible.

Other available safety features include a sensor which triggers an alarm when the incline of the vehicle is changed (i.e. when the vehicles are towed away or moved onto flatbeds), shock sensors which triggers an alarm when the vehicle is “shocked” (i.e. broken glass; pushed away), and an available wheel lock system which ensures wheels and tires stay with your vehicle.

Cadillac Escalades also offer OnStar technology from GM so the vehicle can’t be started if a break in is detected.

All in all many of the new 2012 Cadillac safety features on the Escalade look to make stolen Escalades far less common.