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Top 3 Celebrity SUVs

There are tons of celebrities who choose to drive sport utility vehicles rather than compact sports cars and convertibles. Owning big rides is a part of Hollywood’s materialistic culture, especially ones that patent their status symbols and swag. Here are the top 3 SUVs celebrities drive:

3. Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon

You might think that the boxy body would attract mostly the younger male celebrities, but it’s the up and coming female stars who are seen around driving the Mercedes G-Wagon. Disney starlets seem to be in awe of this car because most of them own one including Ashley Tisdale, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Brenda Song. Fashionable A-listers Ashley Olsen, Emma Roberts, Hilary Duff and Audrina Patridge were also spotted driving a G-Wagon, and it definitely adds a touch of edginess to their sweet and classy images. Other stars who proudly own a G-Wagon include Britney Spears, Joe Jonas, Nicole Richie, Megan Fox, Kanye West and Joel Madden. One last thing, Arnold Schwarzenegger owns one too.

Megan Fox hopping out of her G-Wagon

Megan Fox hopping out of her G-Wagon

2. Cadillac Escalade

It’s been mentioned on rap songs, shown in movies, and has become a celebrity car stereotype because of its luxurious and expensive vibe. Athletes, musicians, actors old and young as well and public figures go nuts about this car and here’s proof: superstar athletes Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, Brett Favre, Tiki Barber, David Beckham, and Anna Kournikova has one. Talk about being a Sport Utility Vehicle! Veterans such as Dennis Quaid, Teri Hatcher also drive one, and reality star Whitney Port,  punk drummer Travis Barker and legendary actor Andy Garcia all own one– not to mention the huge number of rappers who have gleaming Escalades in their garages. Oh, and how could we forget Paris Hilton and her Escalade Hybrid.

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NBA star Dwayne Wade and his custom Escalade

1. Range Rover

With over 100 spotted in Hollywood alone, it’s no doubt that this popular ride is the number one celebrity car not just in the SUV category, but overall.  I love to hate them and the truth is I really like the looks.  Personally I would never buy one since the prices drop like a rock and I actually like the G-Wagon and the Cayenne GTS far more.  If you want to know which celebrities own and drive a Range Rover, here are some of them and boy the variety of their chosen fields overwhelming: host Ryan Seacrest, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Piven, Nicky and Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Michael Phelps, Olivia Wilde, Angelina Jolie, Kiera Knightley, Daniel Craig, musician John Mayer, Nicole Richie, Kate Walsh, Brody Jenner, Jennifer Lopez, Pamela Anderson, David and Victoria Beckham, Miley Cyrus, rapper Bow Wow, Grey’s Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl, and yes, even legendary NBA players Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant seem to nod on this vehicle. We guess anything that’s good for Michael Jordan and Kobe is good for anyone else.

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Miley Cyrus and her Range Rover

Detroit and My Failed Attempt To Find Celebrities at NAIAS

Last week I got the privilege of going out to Detroit and to spend the time with various members from the General Motors team. This entailed visiting the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) where Chevrolet even won “Car of the Year” for the Chevrolet Volt (more to come on the Volt later), a tour of OnStar Command Center and some exclusive interviews with top GM employees.  Just as cool as meeting the people that are behind the scenes of GM like Chris Barger and Mary Henige I also got to make friends was some awesome bloggers like Jewel’s Fab Life, Stacey from The Mom Renewal Project, Miss Motor Mouth, Gary from The Garage Blog, and even this un-named really old guy who doesn’t really believe in the internet.

But enough about that for now, I was really hoping to see some snazzy celebs rubbing elbows with the OEM’s and introducing new cars. You see car shows like this and especially in Detroit are all about introducing the newest cars to the media and to the public. That said it’s not too uncommon for these car manufacturers to hire celebrities to introduce their cars.  But as luck would have it the two introductions that had celebrities attached to them were not introductions I attended.

Case and point, the introduction of the 2012 Civic Concept car was introduced by Pete Wentz.  The second one was some singer but since it wasn’t Justin Bieber I really didn’t care (seriously just kidding).

 

Stay tuned for more about my trip to Detroit and an invention I found that will save celebrity lives! cough cough OnStar

 2012 Civic Concept car introduced by Pete Wentzall

Adam Sandler Slumming In His Cadillac

Apparently Adam Sandler wasn’t all that excited about running errands. Look at that outfit!

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Mel B Hoping In A Sick Escalade

Most of my readers know I’m a sucker for completely blacked out cars and a murdered-out Escalade is really the way to do it. The only better is a murdered-out G-Wagon from Platinum Motorsport but enough of that.

Here we see Mel B hoping into an Escalade after a nice gym work-out.

Mel B in a murdered out Escalade

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Paris Hilton Laying Low in Her Escalade Hyrbid

We’re glad to see that Paris has put the Pink Bentley down for a bit and is stretching the legs of her Cadillac Escalade Hybrid.

Speaking of the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid I got the chance to drive it last week at the North American International Auto Show and man was I impressed. Having tested a few of the various hybrid SUV’s I must say that if you’re in the market for a Hybrid SUV I personally think the Escalade Hybrid is the best bang for the buck. If it’s good enough for Paris…

Paris Hilton In Her Cadillac Escalade