The Cadillac Lyriq made its grand entrance on August 6th, debuting as a mostly production-intent show car that heralds the luxury brand’s rapidly approaching all-electric future. As Cadillac’s very first all-electric vehicle, the Lyriq is packed with cutting-edge technology, forward-thinking innovation, and futuristic design, all of which are highlighted in the following one-minute, 27-second video.
Titled “Coda,” this video includes slick shots of the new Cadillac Lyriq crossover with a polished soundtrack and voiceover narration from a few of the General Motors employees who worked on it.
The first thing to notice is the Lyriq’s new design language. Taking after the EV concept vehicle that debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in early 2019, the Cadillac Lyriq will inform the luxury automaker’s styling direction moving forward, and is characterized by broad, sloping body panels and an uncluttered aesthetic, blending sculpted surfaces and fluid lines.
The front end incorporates narrow lighting signatures and a broad grille section, as well as a V-shaped front fascia that draws the eye to the center of the vehicle. The roofline is low, and the rear end gets a hatch-like curve that suggests both sportiness and practicality.
The interior is replete with modern technology that adds comfort and luxury. The dash, for instance, features a 33-inch LED display that stretches left to right, offering a generous amount of screen real estate for both driver information purposes, and general infotainment duties.
Cadillac’s semi-autonomous Super Cruise drive system is also on board, easing longer journeys by taking control of the steering wheel.
Cadillac LYRIQ celebrates a new design language for the Cadillac brand, one that is assertive, expressive and modern.
Finally, the Cadillac Lyriq sports a cutting-edge all-electric drive system capable of propelling the luxury crossover over 300 miles between plugs.
If you’re a fan of the new Cadillac Lyriq, then this video is definitely a must-watch.
As a reminder, the Cadillac Lyriq will enter production late 2022 for the 2023 model year. Production is expected to take place at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan. Pricing will slot in under $60,000.
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how many more videos is there? the lyriq is the magic tube of toothpaste that never runs out when it comes to hype.
Agreed – enough already!
great looking, stylish and elegant with a wow factor…
just hope GM doesn’t go crazy 😜 making same veh. in the other GM divisions…
I’m pretty excited for Cadillac’s EV onslaught. I really love the design of the Lyriq. To me, it looks more like an “Allroad” style wagon than it does an SUV.
They need to up the release date of this car by 1-1/2 years and have it come out the end of this year, then they will have something good and up-to-date. In 2-1/2 years when this Lyriq EV supposidly will come out, it will be out-of-date. I can’t emphasize enough how a ridiculously long time that is away for them to be hyping this so much now. We heard that before with the Buick Enspire EV, which was first scheduled for world wide release at the end of this year. Now, we have not heard enything about the Enspire in 10 months. Instead, for some reason they switch to the Cadillac Lyriq. All I have to say now is the Bolt refresh and the Bolt EUV better have a 300+ mile range option or they will be way behind the competition. Oh and one more thing, GM better come out with the Buick Enspire EV with it’s promissed 370 mile range by the end of this year that they promissed or I will change brands! I’m really fed-up with GM slow time frame and no show Buick Enspire.
Dear Geoff, Sorry, I put this comment in the wrong pkace, should have been under general cooments.
all these videos were part of the intro for the Lyriq reveal event.
Dear Nebula, That right, and I don’t know why they keep rehashing them here. My Goodness, the Lyriq is 2+ years away!!!!!
They need to up the release date of this car by 1-1/2 years and have it come out the end of this year, then they will have something good and up-to-date. In 2-1/2 years when this Lyriq EV supposidly will come out, it will be out-of-date. I can’t emphasize enough how a ridiculously long time that is away for them to be hyping this so much now. We heard that before with the Buick Enspire EV, which was first scheduled for world wide release at the end of this year. Now, we have not heard enything about the Enspire in 10 months. Instead, for some reason they switch to the Cadillac Lyriq. All I have to say now is the Bolt refresh and the Bolt EUV better have a 300+ mile range option or they will be way behind the competition. Oh and one more thing, GM better come out with the Buick Enspire EV with it’s promissed 370 mile range by the end of this year that they promissed or I will change brands! I’m really fed-up with GM slow time frame and no show Buick Enspire.
The car could probably release in several months if they had battery cells. The battery cell factory in Lordstown won’t be operational till 2022. And it looks like the GMC Hummer will get first dibs on any production capacity outside of that (as they will be sourcing cells from other facilities for the Hummer’s initial launch).
The sad fact is that what Jeff3948 says is very true. Two years from now, this vehicle will have outdated technology and very much behind the curve. There are several all electric vehicles you can buy today from other brands……Jaguar, Audi, Nissan to name a few. By the time this Lyriq lands in dealer showrooms, every major brand, including Chrysler, will have vehicles already available. And….this is only the 1st of GM/Cadillacs EV onslaught…..
Some concerns that I have with the EV craze……When you currently do not have the electric grid capability to support the current demands of electricity…rolling blackouts, constant power outages due to demands, etc, there is no way that we have the capability to support 50-250 million EV in this country.
Power companies should have begun 40 years ago to place all electric lines underground. When you have powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, like the ones in California that completely destroy communities, and their electric grids for days, where does that leave you with an EV that needs to be charged everyday. Can you imagine if all the vehicles in Puerto Rico would have been electric, including the trucks, and it took them a year to restore all the electric grids. Where would that have left restoration with no running vehicles.
The sad fact is that the electric companies haven’t prepared for the onslaught. I recently stayed at a Marriott for over a week that had one 1 charger, and it seemed like the same Tesla was on it everyday. What if there were 25-30 guests with Teslas and most of them were only overnight, what a disaster that would have been. They need to be building charging stations by the millions right now, but they can’t, the electric grind simply isn’t there.
About 5 miles from where I live in Northern Va. there is a Tesla Charging Center with 20 charging terminals……one day last week there were Teslas in line waiting to charge……..amazing!
You are correct. California government pushed Utilities to renewable high cost energy and left out the transmission infrastructure. With more electric vehicles in homes and traveling the grid will not sustain that. If Green New Deal type of eliminating fossil fuels takes effect We won’t need cars because we won’t be able to move. That said, GM will lose with EV like Lyriq if it will not be available,for,2 years.
Nobody calculates the cost to charge the EVs. It is not free. Costs will be more per mile than gas powered vehicles from charging stations and high cost electricity such as California.
The present grid can handle over 100,000 new EVs because the home chargers use less energy than an air conditioner or a refrigerator. Second, there is a surplus of electrical power at night because the generators cannot reduce output so that is unused or stored when possible. This is why many utilities offer discounts to present EV owners using a TOU rate. And the cost of charging an EV is much less than the cost of refining, transporting, and pumping gasoline since electricity is already “piped” to every home. You have no proof that electricity will cost more than gasoline, but ask any utility and they have tons of data proving that electricity is cheaper.
100,000 EV’s is not what I’m talking about. GM wants to be ALL EV by 2030. Keep in mind that we usually sell between 14,000,000 and 17,000,000 vehicles a year, and if they are all EV’s where the hell does that leave us with ………charging stations, electric grids, power output/demand, when you have over 100,000,000 EV’s running around every day.
Electricity may be “cheap” now, but wait until later. There will be tremendous demand, and NO discounts. Gas by then will be about 10 cents a gallon….
And don’t fool yourself about “no pollution with EV’s” that’s bs. All that power has to be generated one way or another, and wind fans and solar won’t scratch the surface of what will be needed, especially if the trend is to all electric homes. Don’t forget to factor in the all American greed factor because everything is about “money”.
Best looking crossover now.
Nice imagery of the Tech Center which GM almost never uses in videos for their products. For a while there, Cadillac placed their products against the backdrop of gritty New York City in all advertising. Just as they’ve moved their headquarters back to Detroit now, so too is their Warren campus now serving as the setting for this promotional video. That may be because Lyriq isn’t street-ready but it’s nice to see glimpses inside the Eero Saarinen-designed campus GM has called home for 64 years now.
Lyriq article every day for the next 2 years.
By the time it’s released( if ever) it’s will be so far out of date, the likes of Tesla etc aren’t standing still. I wonder is there another American company as badly managed as GM.
FCA.