With contemporary styling, more than 300 miles of pure electric range and an available all-wheel-drive performance model, the Cadillac Lyriq offers up a lot for General Motors fans to get excited about. If there’s one thing that has tempered excitement over the arrival of Cadillac’s first-ever electric vehicle, though, it’s the predicted arrival date.
While GM pulled the veil from its new Cadillac Lyriq show car during a live stream last week, the production version of the electric crossover will not enter production until late in the 2022 calendar year. The EV’s scheduled arrival was confirmed by ex-Cadillac president and current GM North America president Steve Carlisle during a recent media conference call that GM Authority executive editor Alex Luft was on.
“We’re looking at a late 2022 introduction as a 2023 model,” Carlisle responded when asked when production of the Cadillac Lyriq was slated to begin.
While the Cadillac Lyriq seems as though it’s a competitive battery-electric offering from GM, its scheduled arrival may leave some Cadillac fans feeling disappointed. The electric vehicle space is rapidly changing and highly competitive, so in an ideal world, the Lyriq would be going on sale in late 2021 or early 2022 instead. That said, GM is planning to transition almost entirely to battery-electric passenger cars, so it will want to take the time to get some of its first EVs right in order to establish a good reputation as a manufacturer of EVs. It’s also worth noting that a two-year launch timeframe is par for the course for today’s highly advanced EV programs. Just look at Tesla and the long development lead times it has experienced thus far.
The Cadillac Lyriq that GM showed last week is not a production model, but rather a show car that is 80 to 85 percent representative of the final product. Base Lyriq models will have rear-wheel-drive, while a performance all-wheel-drive model will be available at additional cost. Certain models will feature a 100 kWh battery pack with more than 300 miles of range and will come with the option for DC fast charging at rates of over 150 kW. Interior highlights include a 33-inch LED display, available 19-speaker AKG stereo and GM’s semi-autonomous Super Cruise driver-assist system.
We’ll be paying close attention as GM continues to develop the Cadillac Lyriq in the coming months and years, so be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac Lyriq news, Cadillac news, and 24/7 GM news coverage.
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every day, this futuristic vehicle becomes less so.
the design and specs aren’t impressive enough to keep the consumer’s attention for two and a half years.
showing this vehicle now is nothing more than a pathetic attempt by gm to garner some EV attention from wall street.
What are you talking about, the design looks striking and emphatic and specs beyond imagination, they offer tech and interior design that the brands you’ve been fanboy can’t even fathom.
If you don’t impress with that it’s on you, not Cadillac. They made a dazzling heck of a vehicle. Find me a 33-inch-advanced curved LED display in any luxury vehicle that capable of displaying over one billion colors, 64 times more than any other vehicle.
Very modern interior design and quiet in there with active noise cancellation, so no tire or wind noise , 19-speaker best in the business AKG Studio sound system with sound reproduction. Augmented reality-enhanced head-up display with multiple 3 dimensional layered setup, enhanced version of the Super Cruise, the best hands-free driver-assist system hands down.Plus infotainment screens for back passengers.
And my personal favorite Wooden floor, why still automakers across the board push impractical dirty anti-hygienic carpet floors beyond me,
As regards to exterior, illuminated crystal front grille is futuristic as it gets and those fancy wheels, fastback style rear and roof and refreshing very original split taillights in this copy-cat circle, concealed and illuminated door handles low fastback-like roof-line, what else you want, seriously.
Also extremely wide, imposing sporty looking vehicle screaming great handling. Actually i wonder the dimensions. Any idea, anyone?
But it doesn’t come out for a couple of years. Even the Nissan has a fancy all LCD dashboard like that. It will be out a year earlier, and it’s nowhere near as expensive.
That “refreshing” back end looks downright idiotic to me. I guarantee they change that before it goes into production.
Wife said eew to the back end, front says is no better. I agree looks like the Predator coming and going
most of those things you listed, can be found in cars today.
if cadillac is about “art and science”, this design pulls hard towards science.
it is automotive brutalism. what it lacks in beauty, it tries to compensate with technology.
it hasn’t even been one week, and the bloom is off the rose. gm’s marketing department is going to have to work overtime to keep this vehicle from fading from our collective memory.
in two and a half years, this will finally come out and be nothing more than an afterthought.
Direct hit… presenting this now and making the market wait a min of 2 more years was once again, folly on GM’s part. They literally do nothing right or well… they’re idiots…
I’m guessing they wanted to float it out and get some feedback before they are too far along in the design process to change. It’s a new market for them that they aren’t familiar with, their only product really close to it was the ELR and we know how that went. So to me it’s encouraging that they are showing designs to the public and listening to their customer’s feedback. I agree it’s a long time to wait and it sucks but also can understand that it’s going to take time to spin up the supplier base for something like this. I think it’s more important that they get it right rather than get it out next year. They understand that if this fails they are gonna be in the hotseat.
The ELR was mismanaged with an unrealistic price tag w/ some obvious cost cutting and non-marketing support. The ELR is far from the LYRIQ.
The LYRIQ will stand as is.
While two years may sound like a long period to wait, one has to remember that a change in battery formulation could mean the savings of tens of thousands of dollars because we’re talking about a $200K price for what is essentially an electric CUV which is more than twice the price of a top model from Tesla.. being right is more important than being first because no one wants the Cadillac Lyriq to be the next CT6 or Pontiac Aztek where everyone said was hot and yet there was no real market for the vehicles.
The lyriq is going to start under $75k. The 200k vehicle is a bespoke model that’s going to be hand built at a rate of 1.2 vehicles per day and will be nothing like this car.
He knows!
He’s just trolling again….
….and again, and again…
bruh
Dear Omegatation, I read that the Cadillac Lyriq is estimated price at $75,000 not $200,000. And based on the looks of this Lyriq, I have to say it is not growing on me. It is down righjt ugly outside but really nice inside. The gorgous Buick Enspire EV announced ln March of 2019 was suppose to be released the end of this year. Where is it?
He knows it’s not 200k. Or he ignores the dozens of responses telling him that for the past week or so.
I agree that this thing is ugly, but really, it doesn’t matter. This is obviously a concept car and probably won’t look like that anyway.
2 years? Two months would have made the impact Cadillac needs to make.
Another 3 years?
You’re not starting from scratch
What have you learned from Volt and Bolt programs?
GM should have held off on this announcement
Seems like vapor ware almost
The Ultium battery plant is currently underway and the Detroit Hamtramck plant is being modified so it will take approximately two years for the vehicle to come out. I don’t like the long wait either but that is the norm from a show car to actual production car transitioning period.
Look at how long it took Acura w/ the NSX from concept to production form? It took them at least a decade for the production version to be ready from concept. Of course this car was a halo but Acura was making excuses.
I don’t think that the Lyriq will be built at DHAM since that plant will build only trucks. The Lyriq will likely be built at Orion or Lansing Grand River.
……and look at how big of a failure that NSX proved to be.
Cadillac has had a chance before with the ELR, and recently with the CT6 EV. They should be ready. So what if the demand outpaces the inventory? At least there will be a demand. The ELR took way too long to come out. The CT6 EV was horribly marketed and made in China of all places.
If it’s going to take two years,( really just a year and a half of you think about it) they need to address the non Cadillac rear end. It looks too much like a Honda Insight in the back, bring back the long vertical caddy taillights. Connect the top and bottom lights. Re-situate the awkward top portion of the tail light.
I don’t think you know what really Vaporware means.
It’s a year later than Hummer. That’s quite a gap in the new GM EV onslaught. Will others be released between then?
By then, will anyone even care?
It’s too far out. Hey let’s show everyone what we’ll have in 2 years so you can benchmark it now and beat it the following year.
Maybe there are valid reasons for the long gestation period. We won’t ever know unless we work in the program itself. But releasing this info so early does nothing more than tell competitors what Cadillac’s up to. And in all likelihood, 2 years from now, everyone else will have something just as beautiful and innovative. I’m seeing now that this was more of a marketing exercise than anything else.
Textbook GM. Introduce a model years before it’s on sale, then reveal it’s actually just a concept, so 2 or 3 years later you start selling a lame watered down version and nobody cares. So at this rate I guess Celestiq and Diaboliq and all those will be what, 2030 models?
Not interested in it today, tomorrow or 2 years from now.
This should be the next XT5. Sharp styling, but give it a gasoline motor. Not everyone wants an electric vehicle.
Or do something really “outside the box” and offer both plus a hybrid.
This is fake news. GM is really releasing it in 3020.
I think it’s difficult making an SUV look like a sedan but in this case they succeeded.
Hyundai just announced its new EV brand name, hang on to your hat and “Ioniq” ,boom! Thus essentially ended Cadillac’s ev model name scheme with names end with iq, without even starting to sell. From now on customers always gonna associate Cadillac and Hyundai , of course it’s a good thing for Hyundai but you bet higher segment brand not gonna like this.
A solution would be to import the early chinese models which will come sooner. Otherwise, it’s not a good sign, particularly with the promised features.
The hideous Tesla Cybertruck’s production is 2 years out from its reveal. Regardless of the time span, and how ugly that truck is, it has managed to build a ton of hype for them. Tesla enthusiasts are not painting doom and gloom.
I suspect GM is also sandbagging the range, since it is 2 years out.
Contrary to what the arm chair ceo’s are saying in these comments, the Lyriq and GM will be just fine.
You know this is just plain silly.
GM holds the info back not he Hummer people here complain. They move forward with the info on the Cadillac EV and they complain. They rush a product to market and have issues and people complain. They hold it up till the problems are sorted or they get the pricing down on say batteries they complain.
Let’s grasp the true reality here. There are things that take time and GM is not able to move in the time line. #1 some of you need to consider the plant to make the batteries is just now going up in Lordstown. No plant no batteries. Well they could buy them else where but then the price goes up etc.
GM would have loved to have had this car last year more than anyone but they have things that limit pace and things that just have to happen before they go to market.
Now sit down but odds are this will be out in China first. Yes they will get the first models. Why because over there if there are any bugs the public there are just happy to have a car and don’t revolt against a MFG if a problem arises. Here if Cadillac has an issue that could deal a major blow to all coming EV products at GM no matter if it was related or not,
The coming EV products are not a race this is a long term program that needs to be done right. Being first to market may garner the headlines but it does not produce the best products in the long run.
So sit back grab a cold beverage and and enjoy watching history made.
Note too that some of the gear that is going to be used is still being developed and what we get at intro may be even more advanced than the numbers we have been given to this point. Like computers things are improved right up to and even after intro with firmware etc,
To be first wins nothing here but too get it right can make a worked of difference when moving forward,
I wish they’d have said it was just a concept car to begin with. If it’s over two years out, they must have a ton of work left to do.
In the meantime, if you want an electric crossover with 300 miles range, the Ariya will be out next year.
If you wanted something a lot fancier that’s electric, the Lucid Air will probably be out before this also.
So it is currently scheduled to enter production in two years, which is subject to delay. Actual on-sale date is probably realistically Spring of 2023 and the design that we see here is 80-85 percent. That means the wheels and tires that give it an aggressive stance probably will not make it to production. So what does that leave us with? A vehicle that’ll be late to the party and look fairly ordinary.
I’m not especially impressed with the Lyriq overall. Cadillac needs a home-run that’ll reset their brand and I don’t see Lyriq as anything more than Cadillac’s late entry into a by-then crowded field for luxury EV SUVs.
if biden wins they know he will make EVs mandatory so they will wait to see who wins.
While I am very excited about this vehicle I think they might have dropped the hammer way too soon on that full blown reveal. Perhaps a teaser but you can get the public all worked up about this and then having a 2+ year wait is just too long. We have a culture with a VERY short attention span. Time will tell.
It isn’t just the short attention span they should worry about. It’s all the other new products being offered in this growing segment over the next couple of years.
By showing this off 2+ years early, it might seem like old news by the time it launches, and they’ll end up trying to sell something nobody is excited for.
The 5th gen Camaro took about 5 years From show car to market and it did just fine.,
If it is a totally new and interesting product it will do just fine. If it was just another small car then no,
GM reveals an EV, and surprisingly its production is two years out! Hmmmmmm, how did that go? Oh yeah, GM and EV’s, blah, blah, blah, blah!
This is a best looking suv now, but again. Ive been saing it for a long time. Cadillac is too slow.
2 years from now? this is a joke.
Mary Bara wants to turn Cadillac into a granola brand. She will move the headquarters to Portland. Rent will be cheaper now I hear.
We all thought detroit was the bottom of the barrel, and therefore a perfect match for cadillac.
But portland has won this race to the ultimate bottom of sh|t h*les, so a move would be logical and very cheap!
I do not care for the rear end sides. I do love the interior. The major problem is not the outside looks, the design or specs, it’s the timeframe. The fact that it will not be available for sale for at more than two more years is absolutely deadly for GM, because Ford and Tesla already have 300+ mile range SUVs. Unless GM is going to come out with the Buick Enspire which promised 370 mile range and promised to come out at the end of 2020, GM will loose the race. What the heck ever happened to the promised 370 mile 2020 Buick Enspire EV SUV that was just announced with big fanfare in March of last year (just do a search for it and you’ll see)? There has not been a peep about it since the announcement except for rumors that it turned into a for China only SUV. Now the Buick Enspire was a gorgeous SUV!!! What the heck is wrong with GM?
The Enspire was also a concept.
Reminiscent of the protracted Chevy HHR “Public Revel to actual Production” timing.
It would be different if they were trying to make it better or refine it in some way.