GM will launch the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq – the luxury division’s first electric vehicle – with a very limited range of options. For example, as GM Authority exclusively reported last week, only two wheel types and two exterior colors (Satin Steel Metallic and Stellar Black Metallic) will be offered at launch.
It’s highly likely that the move is intended to lower initial production costs by streamlining production and reducing complexity. However, it’s also likely that General Motors will expand the range of Cadillac Lyriq colors at some point in the future. As a result, we decided to render the Cadillac Lyriq in other colors (and from two different angles), just to see what it would look like. Here are the results.
Red
Light Blue
Dark Blue
Green
Brown/Maroon
White
Black
If GM decides to follow our lead in offering more exterior colors for the Cadillac Lyriq, it might also create more interior colorways. However, that seems unlikely to happen any time soon: when the vehicle goes on sale in the United States and Canada in early 2022, customers will have only two interior color choices – Sky Cool Gray and Noir.
The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq made its world debut last week at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show. It will be priced to start at $59,990 in the U.S. and CA$69,898 in Canada. Reservations will open in September of 2021.
The Lyriq will be built at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, following a $2 billion investment to support production of electric vehicles. It will ride on the GM BEV3 platform and be fitted with a GM Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive motor that, in the first iteration of the Lyriq, will be rated at 340 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. A high-performance version, similar to the V-Series and Blackwing variants of the 2022 Cadillac CT4 and 2022 Cadillac CT5 luxury sedans, has not been ruled out.
Should the Cadillac Lyriq be offered with more than just two exterior colors? Let us know in the comments, or by voting in our poll, and then be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac Lyriq news, Cadillac news and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
Comments
This is an exceptional case that it doesn’t matter what color it’s painted, you know it’s a looker.
Desicisons…decisions…
That’s true Don’t Tread On Me, BUT if I could afford one, it would NOT be in the two colors they now offer. My choice would be some shade of “candy apple” red, NOT fire engine red! The color on my current 2020 Chevrolet Malibu premier is called Cajun Red. Of course with the way things are going now in this country, I would imagine that word Cajun will be disappearing from that color, but it’s a beautiful shade of red like I’ve had on my last several reds on my Malibu with a slightly different take to each one of them. The other thing I would want with this red is what I now have in my Malibu and I believe it’s called light beige but to me it’s white. Nothing like a looker with a red exterior and white interior. What could Mary Barra possibly be thinking of in only offering two colors? Would it have been a big deal to expand the color palette? I don’t know how the paint booths work, but I would think if you could spray those two colors you could have a combination of other colors also, but what do I know Mary Barra seems to know it all! Is she even a car person or just someone with connections?
I’m sure they are planning to introduce more colors, white is one of their most popular colors and that isn’t on offer in the first 2 color options. Love the blue Hues!
When Lyriq starts production, I am not sure if the new Spring Hill paint shop will be completed (Gallagher Kaiser just started construction last month) So it might be starting in the old paint shop and hence the limited colors.
Absolutely right! More colors=more buyers. Also if it were to be offered with AWD it would bring more buyers. Especially in snowier states like Colorado.
I’ll have to wait for the white.
I wish gm would offer green on more of their vehicles. My 2014 silverado is this gorgeous green. I did and would pay extra for it.
Dont givem any ideas on up charges but yes GREEN! Hahaha.
There will be more colors. The lack of colors now is often a marketing deal and soft start up.
When the Fiero came out they offered Red or White. It matched the marketing and made it look like these cars were everywhere. Often when limited models are out. The same color cam make one car seen 3 time be three cars.
GM is going soft start as they can not afford any foul ups here. They can only get this right the first time. Amy failures on the early models will taint any EV to come.
Love the blue ones!
Looks great in communist red. Hopefully they won’t mute it. They need bold colors, not boring Tesla colors.
EXACTLY!
That green one would love great in my garage. I mean all of them would, but that green is perfect. Definitely have this on my wish list of next cars.
Of course the Lyriq needs more colors .Choice is what luxury & exclusivity is about .
The colors ,should go from black to bold ‘ electric ‘ ,choices. though white ( like Cadillacs traditional ‘ Cotillion ‘)….
I am NOT into SUVS & sick of the ubiquitous calls for one ….but the Lyriq has that Cadillac swag ,so important for Division.
However ,could it hurt them to build a sedan ,coupe or convertible ?
The later would be the only electric drop top in production !
And lets see some ‘ flame throwers ‘,in an updated ‘ fin ‘ kind of way !
EXACTLY! This whole SUV craze is ridiculous! Enough is enough. There are some of us who don’t need or want an SUV no matter how many thousands of $$$$ you take off the price! Give me a CAR and not some puddle jumper EV Bolt or whatever the electric car is called!🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I wonder if this thing will ever sell. They will be lucky to sell 10,000 in the first year.
Did you miss the Bronze/Gold,Silver family ? and Metallic blends ?
What interior colors are offered Lyirq
Start up interior colors are black (naturally…let’s see how boring we can get) and a cool gray, which I think is called sky gray. I don’t know if the interior is leather or something else like a woven fabric maybe. I hope it’s leather since that is a Cadillac standard, unlike Mercedes which goes for an upcharge to get away from vinyl or whatever M-Tec is.
Absolutely would love better colors. Today it’s white, black, gray, blue, red. Be more creative with color. Metallics are wonderful. But let’s see some two tone color. Interior color is blah, too. Spice it up.
The green one is pretty sick 🙂 But if I could ever buy one of those, I’d put something totally custom on it anyway… Probably a dip or a wrap.
Agree with GREEN – a nice, medium-deep Emerald. Exudes class and… it’s not white, black or silver!!!
If everyone is blacking out their cars, XT folks too, then they are telling you something. Creative wheels, calipers, etc all need more color. If not, buyers are taking the creative in hand. That indicates too much repetitive colors from year to year. One year looks like the next.
Jean – Spot on! I’m aware that in auto-color popularity: white is #1; black’s #2; and various silvers & charcoals #3.
These colors serve the dull, ultra-conservative, okay, and somewhat unimaginative corp types (and, ladies like white, so that also drives it’s popularity).
FOR THE REST OF US, YES! Interesting, unique and exclusive colors (for two-to-three yrs), then new unique ones introduced with older custom colors “retired”, with at least ONE new custom (NOT a shade of black, grey, silver or white) COLOR introduced every year and oldest “custom” color dropped off.
Would allow for a robust used market with a variety of unique and limited selection of colors. Would have the potential to drive a more robust demand for the available limited quantities of any given (short-production-run) color.
White needs to be added now. Black is to much to keep clean and the silver color is tinted for a green hue. How hard could it be to add white initially.
I’m in love with the Green and the Brown/Burgundy. You don’t see those two colors a lot on the roads. The blue is beautiful as well, but I have a blue car now, so I need to change it up. I don’t think I can wait for the other colors though, so the Satin Steel Metallic would be my choice if I get one at the launch. I am very excited about this gorgeous car!!
The green exterior is awesome! An accompanying light silver interior would have me sold. Great looking car. However, I’m wary about the hands-free feature because of documented mishaps in other manufacturers. I would not buy a vehicle with sticky leather seats, which are also cruel. Velour would be great.
A deep purple would be AMAZING!!! DARK METALLIC AMETHYST is sleek and would be an exceptional look.