The Cadillac Lyriq show car has a very futuristic-looking and contemporary design that is sure to turn heads when the battery-electric crossover goes on sale in late 2022.
One major contributing factor to the Lyriq’s commanding presence are the large, ornate alloy wheels that it was shown with. These directional, fan blade-style wheels are much more complex and intricate than any wheel design the automaker currently offers – and there’s a very interesting reason for that.
GM Design recently shared some more information on the Cadillac Lyriq wheels in a post made on its official Instagram page. According to the post, the wheels were inspired by the work of renowned German sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae and were designed by GM’s Ryan Skelley. The initial digital sculpting for the wheels was done by Chandan Gupta and Craig Oxley.
“Inspired by the sculptures of Julian Voss-Andreae, the fins in the Lyriq wheel shift from hard to soft surfaces as you move around the vehicle,” the Instagram post reads.
The post also notes that the “Cadillac Mondrian pattern can be found in all aspects of the Lyriq including the custom-designed tire tread.” The ‘Cadillac Mondrian’ pattern refers to the detailing in the Cadillac crest, which is inspired by the instantly recognizable work of famous French painter Piet Mondrian. It’s worth noting that the production vehicle will not feature custom tires with the Cadillac Mondrian pattern and will likely use a regular road tire from a major supplier.
The Cadillac Lyriq wheels also feature the new monochromatic version of the Cadillac logo. Notably, the Cadillac Lyriq features exclusively monochromatic Cadillac logos, trading the main front and rear emblems for a backlit LED version of the crest. We expect this monochromatic Cadillac logo to be used more frequently on the automaker’s products going forward.
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There’s a lot of hype surrounding Cadillac’s Lyriq; but this puts a lot of pressure for the Lyriq to succeed because failure is not an option as General Motors needs to be prepared in prevention from building what might be a new Pontiac Aztek.
Seem to recall the last Cadillac president saying the exact same thing prior to the debut of the CT6, and look how that turned out. . .
Sold the 3rd most in its competitive set in 2019.
The Cadillac logo, like the brand itself has been pared down to nothingness. Some years ago, they dropped the seven crown jewels atop the crest and the merlettes (ducks). Next they dropped the laurel wreath and reshaped the body of the emblem. Now they’re abandoning the colors each of which had meaning. The black represented superiority, the gold signified riches, the red denoted boldness, the silver connotes virtue, and the blue equates to valor.
The new colorless, ductless, jewelless, wreathless logo is, like Cadillac itself, a shadow of its former self. I know Tesla has a plain logo as does Lexus and M-B so the folks running GM think they need to follow suit but their are other brands like Porsche and Ferrari, for instance, that’ve maintained their historic emblems. I also know that most logos evolve and the Cadillac logo has evolved throughout their history but, in my opinion, in recent years, it’s been pared down and evolved too much; evolved to the point of being meaningless.
They could just write “Cadillac” on the trunk and it wouldn’t make any difference to me.
The logo neither makes not breaks the vehicle.
It’s about as important as the name of a sculptor that they based the wheel design off of.
Clearly, a slow news day.
But the wheels… some sculptor none of us care about…
Well, at least it isn’t another rendering of a lowered car with giant wheels.
Enough talk, Just release the damn car
It doesn’t come out for two years. They showed it off super early and have to keep people excited.
It’s sad really. Nobody cares about this thing compared to the Mach E or the Cybertruck.
I predict sales that reflect that lack of interest.
For now I am interested because there are no other domestic luxury electric vehicles offered. The closest is the Buick Velite 5 and it is assembled only in China.
You should check out a company called Tesla. I understand they build a few electric cars.
Tesla is the only American company offering competition to the likes of Lexus, Audi, BMW etc, Cadillac and Lincoln dropped the ball on this years ago
How are those wheels attached? I don’t see any lug nuts..
They have to be very close together if they’re behind the center cap. Maybe the wheels are glued on.
He is a woke sculptor thats why this was chose for the wheels. If you look closely it will say BLM on the lug nut. They gay flag will shine on the inside of the car when you put it in park.
Lol, I watched the Lyric video, and you’re only exaggerating a little bit.
It counters it out with White Power steering…..
Folks all these stories and info was given at the intro. The media outlets and web forums just spread it out over time as they have time and space to fill when there is no other presssing news. It is no more or less hype than most other vehicles. Much of the press on other vehicles never gets posted as it is just more of the same.
As for this vehicle how it does will come down to how well it is put together. How it performs and how it looks.
No one is going to choose this vehicle based on the emblem. It will come down to the quality of the interior, the feel of the door shutting, the final styling of the entire vehicle.
People will be more about ride and drive quality.
Finally it will be about image. Cadillac needs to reset the image starting with this vehicle. This vehicle needs to share no parts bin parts from Chevy. It need to really be a Cadillac and not cross breed with any other GM product.
Finally being a Cadillac and EV the challenge will be how quiet it is in side. EV products have road/wind noise. In ICE it gets masked with engine noise. GM needs to get details like interior sound right the first time.
My hope is the lack of effort in the recent products has been channeled to this product. The details we hav3 lacked at Cadillac for years need to return. That is what made a Cadillsc a Cadillac not a name or emblem.
You’re only ignoring how it does against the competition, which is also going to be critical.
Nate even a troll like you would understand if you get the vehicle right then it should do will against any in the market.
A well done vehicle does not compare to others but others compare to it.
Right now there is little competition and Tesla is getting stale in styling inside and out.
The market will be the determining factor.
But the Lyriq isn’t out right now.
I’m just pointing out that how it will do in the market depends largely by how well it stacks up against the competition. The competition two years from now.
If you think that is trolling then you haven’t read any of the actual EV sites or even Jalopniks take on this vehicle.
With so few EV products out and so few that will enter the market in the next two years that is not the same kind of issue as if this was a ICE product.
Th3 strongest EV company on the market is Tesla but their development time is often long and delayed. Their next product is the truck and the plants is not even broken ground. It will be lucky to be ready in two years.
The Cadillac will appear first in China and will come here next. It will have a chance to be perfected before our market. GM needs a perfect launch here to drive desire for the rest of the products to come.
Let’s face it any major issues will damage more than just the Cadillac.
The Ford is one vehicle and they really have nothing solid to follow it soon. Odds too the profits will be limited there too.
GM also had contributions to the Mach E in some way as they were seen testing the prototype.
As for responses most people on the web are clueless. This includes some of the contributors.
Piet Mondrian was Dutch, not French