2023 Cadillac Lyriq To Get Front Seat Massage Feature
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The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will come standard with massaging front seats, GM Authority can confirm.
The standard front massaging seats in the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq carry RPO code AF6 for the driver’s side seat and RPO AKE for the passenger-side seat. Both of the massaging front seats will also come with heating functionality as standard.
The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will come standard with an abundance of other technology, as well, including Super Cruise, a 33-inch widescreen display, Cadillac’s next-generation Active Noise Cancellation system, an AKG Studio 19-speaker audio system with headrest speakers and a dual-level charge cord, among more.
Power in the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will come from a single, rear-mounted Ultium Drive permanent magnet electric motor producing 340 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. A 100-kWh GM Ultium lithium-ion battery pack will provide an estimated 300 miles of range per charge. As we reported previously, the battery-electric crossover will tip the scales at a significant 5,610 pounds – nearly identical to the two-wheel-drive version of the 2021 Cadillac Escalade.
Pricing for the entry-level 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will start at $59,990 in the United States. In addition to the U.S. and Canada, the electric crossover will also be available for purchase in China early next year, as well as in the Middle East in mid-2023. The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will begin rolling off the line at GM’s Spring Hill, Tennessee assembly facility in May of 2022 following a $2 billion investment in the facility to support all-electric vehicle production there.
In addition to these markets, the Cadillac Lyriq will also be built and sold locally in China. Somewhat surprisingly, the Chinese market will actually receive the vehicle ahead of the United States, with a launch expected sometime later this year.
U.S. and Canadian order books for the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will open on September 18th.
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That’s nice for long journeys.
Sounds like this vehicle is going to be quite the bargain at $60k.
except it’s assembled by GM. They manufacture nothing, they assemble stuff now, The old American companies are gone.
I remember Cadillac quitting Art & Science because China found it too angular but Lyriq has sort of brought the design language back. Lyriq is daring in much the way Hyundai and even Kia have used design to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
Steve Colmar
Work hard. Save your pennies. Keep your head down. Keep your nose to the grind stone. And one day you’ll be able to afford a Hyundai or Kia.
I can afford the Cadillac Lyric with a single cash payment, so why do you need to sponsor the cheap Koreans cars that cannot even match up to a plain Chevrolet?
At least Korea is not a communist country. The Lyric battery platforms are all made in China so go ahead and support a communist regime.
So your suggesting the Ultium battery going into the TN made cars are coming from China? or is that intentional mis information.
Sorry, Kia does far better interior and exterior design. K5 looks blow Malibu out ou f the water!!
I’ll always like GM handling best (even though both FCA and Honda are good) but Chevy has mediocre styling.
I actually could waste my money on a luxury car but would never be so wasteful. My uncle taught me about depreciation (never buy anything but a car that’s at least 1.5 years old) & he school me on why luxury cars are generally an over-rated way to show off.
I’ll stick with Honda Accord, thank you very much! Once in a while a VW Golf as a second car gives me wood but repair costs are too high. No overpriced and pretentious CUV for me. And, BTW, Chevrolet has crappy interiors. Last generation Regal/Insignia was the only GM sedan to interest me.
Did your uncle taught you that luxury is a want item, not needed? Even though your uncle gave you advice on things in life, seems like he wants to mold you thru him. Seems like a form of brainwashing to me.
@Steve Colmar: “I’ll stick with Honda Accord”. You’re comparing apples and oranges. The Lyriq is an EV with Level 2 self-driving. Consumer Reports ranked Super Cruise 1st at 69% and Tesla’s Autopilot 2nd at 57%. (CR ranked OpenPilot even higher than Super Cruise at 78% but OP is not in production.)
Honda doesn’t even offer an EV now that it’s discontinued the Clarity, and CR scored Honda Sensing at 40%, ranking it 12 out of 17 production Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, ADAS.
For those of us who are keen to reduce our carbon footprint and also have a use case for which effective ADAS makes good sense (I’ll be 80 soon and drive the 90 miles between Palo Alto and Monterey once a week), there aren’t that many good options in the used car market. Heaven knows I’ve tried.
If I can get the Bolt EUV with Super Cruise before the Lyriq, great, but if not I won’t mind driving a car whose front seats can massage the driver and passenger. Super Cruise promises to wake me up if the massaging puts me to sleep; Tesla’s Autopilot is happy to let me sleep as long as I can convince it I have one hand on the wheel.
Gotta please the chinamen!
Am i the only one that thinks it looks like a station wagon?
It will be interesting to see what it looks like in person. Often I find pictures don’t always do cars justice. For instance the BOLT EUV which reminds me of my old pointiac GM made with Toyota in Freemont now Tesla but when I saw the BOLT EUV in the flesh at the dealer it did not look as bad as the pictures showed and reminded me of my 2004 pontiac! But I am hoping not.
great car for funeral directors
Welcome to the station wagon of the future. I liked the 2012 CTS-V wagon.
Why not, put you to sleep while driving, between distraction of GPS, Phones and other stuff this just makes perfect sense for all those that want to end their life or someone else.
Looking forward to first Lyriq test-drive report.
China isn’t communist. It’s State Capitalism with a genocidal streak.
Starting not to fear communism after Trump’s fascist regime. We looked like Hungry, Poland, Brazil and Philippines which was shameful!!
I still cannot believe that GM didn’t utilize a Frunk on the Lyriq. What a wasted opportunity with that long Hood.
Sandy Munro is most likely correct, Legacy Automakers are utilizing too many OEM off the shelf parts in their upcoming EV’s.
But the Lyriq is great inside and out. By miles the best executed Cadillac in my lifetime.
Something tells me the frunk is used for elements of charging why not available. Which makes sense not to offer one in the first place. If size of the frunk was on the small side, why bother with it in the first place.
Am I the only one confused and shocked that it has standard massaging seats but not standard ventilated seats? WTF – and don’t tell me that they aren’t needed in all cars because they aren’t needed in all climates. If that’s the case, it shouldn’t have standard heated seats either. Just massagers.
The write-up of this article is poor. The vehicle does have ventilated seats according to the order guide and sources from the Hollywood event when the LYRIQ was there shown to journalists.
Looks like the standard Lyriq will be loaded for 59,900. My question for CEO Mary Barra is why is China going to get the Lyriq 6 months before America gets it? I thought GM was an American company that puts America first? I would love to buy the Lyriq the end of this year instead of May of next year. What is going on with GM that they are putting China first in line? I just don’t understand that. That is really bad marketing and publicity for an American car company that we the tax payers bailed out in 2009.