A sharp-eyed General Motors fan has filmed a pre-production 2023 Cadillac Lyriq driving on a public road in Michigan, giving us a better idea of how the vehicle will look in day-to-day traffic.
The YouTube user that uploaded the video, Reese Capone, says he spotted this white 2023 Cadillac Lyriq prototype trundling down the road in Warren, Michigan, not far from the sprawling GM Technical Center. The vehicle appears mostly production-ready, leaving the secret-concealing camouflage at home and sporting production front and rear fasciae, production alloy wheels and actual LED headlamps and taillights. The red-painted tailgate with a missing Cadillac crest emblem is a sure sign this is a pre-production vehicle undergoing testing, though.
This video should give those who have yet to see the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq in person a rough idea of the vehicle’s size. The Lyriq prototype passes a Chevy Blazer at one point in the video and appears about the same size as the crossover, with a similar length and slightly lower roofline. Overall, it appears about the same size as most mid-size crossovers, but with a longer and shorter roofline and lower stance.
As we already know, the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq Debut Edition will launch with a 12-module, 100.4 kWh Ultium battery pack, which will send power to a single rear-mounted Ultium Drive electric motor producing a GM estimated 340 horsepower and 324 pound-feet of torque. This setup should provide a GM-estimated 300 miles of driving range on a full charge.
Production of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq for the U.S. and Canada – and eventually other markets such as the Middle East – will take place at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee. Pricing starts at $59,990 in the U.S., including destination and freight, while prices in Canada start from $69,990 CAD.
Check out the video embedded below to see more of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq ahead of its market launch in mid-2022.
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Niiice! So it looks like the d-pillar is blacked out now? Before it was body-colored…
Did that I think to make the rear window look larger.
Personally I think the D-pillar looks better blacked-out. The upper rear lights look more natural this way.
This video is 2 weeks old. There is already a photo of ct5 2023 facelift.
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This Lyriq is driving down Mound Road past the Ford Sterling Axle Plant in Sterling Heights MI. You can see it in the video.
Yeah, the video is shot just about four miles north of the GM Technical Center, located In neighboring Warren, MI, so it’s likely the Lyriq just left the Tech Center for it’s test run.
Why is the hatchback red when the rest of the vehicle is white?
Preproduction vehicle, likely just took parts that were available to put together, or at one point this Lyriq had it’s rear hatch damaged and they swapped it out with another preproduction part.
Well now we know it will be offered in a dark red metallic color.
I wonder about those black D-pillars as well. I’m guessing like the red hatch, it’s just a collection of non-matching parts used on the test mule.
Probably, but not necessarily. Color palettes and wheel designs are usually some of the final choices of a new vehicle, when it’s developed. Remember, this is a test-mule, and if anyone has seen any “spy” photos of any company’s test mules, they’re almost always painted white, as white is the most generic and least noticeable color, or are covered with that op-art black and white camouflage wrap. Cadillac was not necessarily concerned with the colors on the vehicle, or the style of the wheels. The test run was to gauge the operation of the various systems in the car. The wheels may be finalized versions for a specific trim level, or they may be just a set of many wheels and tires they’ve used for previous testing purposes.
It’s probably a given there will be some shade of ruby red paint, but the preproduction cars can be painted in different shades of a color, for evaluation by the stylists. Automotive paint supplier companies, like PPG or Sherwin Williams, usually can cook up dozens, if not hundreds of shades and tones of any color, by mixing in varying amounts of secondary tints from other base colors. And early pre-production cars may be repainted multiple times with different shades of a particular color, or, even, a different color, entirely, for judgement by the Cadillac execs. The test-mules also can have various interior pieces, such as seats, carpeting and door panels installed and later replaced with different design levels and colors that may or may not make it into final production for a given model year.
For some reason it looks a lot nicer to me in these traffic shots than in the marketing photos. Don’t know if they made any changes, but the proportions seem a lot better.
To me it is the black d-pillar. It helps weigh down the rear creating a less busy more coupe-like profile. I thought the lyriq would have looked better with this change form day 1.
Lackluster wheels.
Ugly as all we have today in streets, prefer this green blueish Chevrolet Impala long with… it really did not excited us
Thought this was going to replace my wife’s 18’ boring xt5, but unless it wow’s us more in person going to have to look somewhere besides GM for the first time in my 60 years.Sad
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Would have been a profound moment if that Impala had been a same year Coupe Deville.
Just looks like every other suv now that I see it on an actual road