The General Motors Design team has released a series of new photos showing some additional interior details in the two Cadillac Blackwing sedans.
These photos focus on the various intricate, high-quality interior details of the Cadillac Blackwing sedans, like the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing‘s available carbon fiber accented racing seats, which feature prominently in the newly released gallery.
The optional lightweight seats build on the vehicle’s motorsports-inspired feel and feature exposed carbon backrests with silver V-Series logos, stitched leather upholstery with perforated leather accents, white piping and contrasting red and white stitching. The seats are optional on the CT5-V Blackwing and will not be offered on the smaller CT4-V Blackwing.
Another component that sets the Cadillac Blackwing interiors apart from regular Cadillac V-Series models and also features in this new photo set is the high-performance steering wheel. The wheel, which has carbon fiber accents, a serialized plaque and magnesium shift paddles, comes standard on the CT5-V Blackwing and is optional on the CT4-V Blackwing. The available steering wheel is also good for those who want to do track days or other high-performance driving events with the vehicle, as it provides quick access to the V-Mode button and Performance Traction Management Switch.
This gallery also gives us an up-close look at the ways GM designers mixed different materials in the Cadillac Blackwing interiors to achieve a high-end look. For example, the high-performance steering wheel features leather, thick contrasting stitching, carbon fiber trim and brushed aluminum trim, all butted up together within a fairly small space. The seats also use two different kinds of leather upholstery (stitched and perforated), three different stitch colors (black white and red) and two different trim types (gloss black plastic and carbon fiber). This unique blend of materials was put together by Nault West and Dominic Dowling, who are both color, material and finish designers (CMF) at GM Advanced Design.
The 2022 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing will enter production this July at the GM Lansing Grand River plant in Michigan.
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Gorgeous. Well done on the attention to details on looking sporty.
Sharp contrast to the new BMW M3/4’s gaudy colors, looking like a Brazilian parrot exploded in there.
Unless you like that kind of thing, some do. What does seem cheesy to me is that Cadillac makes a point out the red seatbelts on the website like it’s a feature. OK….
I’ll take gaudy colors. Lots of ‘em. Baroque cloth seat inserts in true golden age Cadillac style would be a memorable juxtaposition to the severe sporting nature of the car. Evening Orchid or Emerald Rivar cloth on matched leather minus all the carbon fiber stuff would be grand. With dash and door panels swathed in real wood colored wood. Add some interesting classic GM Magic Mirror exterior colors to allow buyers to custom tailor the car. Break free.
what do Joe Manganiello, The Jonas Brothers, Tiffany Haddish and younger brother Justin, and dancers Stephen Boss and Allison Holker Boss think about this?
Just minutes before plastics sniffer squad arrive.
You know it’s funny GM uses plastic… people complian….GM uses vinyl or leather…. people complain….GM uses carbon fiber or fake wood…. people complain! Yet a fancy Hyundai can have cheap crap plastic in it for 30,000 dollars and no one complains! Just saying. I think the Caddy looks great inside and out👍👍
Yawn…. no one will know you spend $25K or more for this over the “ehh” CT5-V regular…. This will sell because there are folks who want this engine experience.. That said with gas going up to $10.00 pgl due to “Quid Pro ‘Stumbling Bumbling’ Jo Jo” Mary Barra will say no one wants these types of vehicles any longer, so it’ll be killed….
Xjug1987 if you can afford the price of this car I don’t think you to worried about the price of gas…I think Mary is doing a great job at GM, and these will probably sell in small numbers anyway. Remember for every ten BMW M3’s seven or eight are probably regular 3 series cars. Look at the Corvette they can’t build enough people are hungry for them I remember when I was growing up if you saw a Corvette it was something special to see.
Mary is doing a great job> Really? Is it because she is a woman who wears ugly sweaters? Under any comparative analysis she has done a mediocre job. Cadillac has become a dump under her watch.
stock price. as long as as it keeps going up, she can do whatever she wants.
True, but Cadillac as a brand and from a sales and market share perspective, is an absolute dumpster fire. XT6 is a complete sales failure.
Though I agree that the price of gas is going up, I think a lot of people are going to want this car. As the world goes electric, it will be one of the last great (likely *the* last great) sports sedan. This kind of car started with Alfa Romeo and got noticed here with the BMW 2002, reached it’s pinnacle in the late 90s through the naughts, and will likely end shortly when we’re all driving overgown golf carts. This platform – the Alpha 2 – with GM’s MRC and (holy cow) a stick shift transmission will be a great send off for sports sedans and with the greater driver involvement I’d certainly take it over the current BMW 3 or 5 series.
I just wish they’d put the actual Blackwing engine in it from the CT6.
It all looks pretty darn elegant and technically proper to me ….. a true CADILLAC
Looks nice but… cts v and ct6v had much better interiors. And the tablet display is brutal that they use now….talk about cheap.
I love ego sexist pig men who think women can’t do anything…I got news for ya my wife is smarter then me, makes more per year then me, has a four year college degree, and I would like to think that she do anything a man can do and possibly better! Well now let’s go back to the Bob Lutz days when GM was spewing out junk car after junk car including Cadillac oh do you remember the SSR and the Fake GTO how about the Cadillac pickup that was nothing more then avalanche…or better yet the 1990’s rubbermaid interiors that rattled like a jar of coins after a year of ownership, or how the about 1980’s when “the old Cadillac decided to turn a chevy cavalier into a Caddy, things where not better before Mary which is why GM, Chrysler and almost Ford went bankrupt. Enough said you hate GM then don’t buy them.