Cadillac Celestiq May Be Priced From Around $300,000
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The Cadillac Celestiq will be a hand-built, ultra-premium luxury sedan with an extensive options list and impressive technology like GM Ultra Cruise and a SmartGlass roof. It should be no surprise, then, that this full-size four-door will also carry a steep asking price of around $300,000.
Cadillac Celestiq exterior teaser
While previous reports pegged the Celestiq’s price at around $200,000, a more recent article from The Wall Street Journal indicates it will actually cost around $300,000. This will allegedly depend on the options and features chosen, so it seems possible the starting price will still be closer to $200,000, with a pricy features menu capable of easily pushing the transaction price closer to $300,000. Customers that shop at this end of the spectrum are typically quite eager to load their vehicle up with options, as well.
Cadillac Celestiq interior teaser
GM plans to build fewer than 500 examples of the battery-electric luxury sedan a year, with production set to commence in a new high-end facility on its Warren Tech center campus in late 2023. The main purpose of the vehicle will be to showcase the latest Cadillac technologies, the Wall Street Journal report said, such as GM’s Ultium modular battery design and Ultium Drive family of electric motors. The Celestiq will also debut GM’s new Ultra Cruise semi-autonomous driving tech, which enables hands-free operation in 95 percent of all driving scenarios.
The exterior of the Cadillac Celestiq will pull inspiration from the Cadillac Escala concept that debuted at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, while the interior will adopt a spacious 2+2 seating arrangement and a pillar-to-pillar central display screen. The sedan will tap GM’s dedicated BEV3 electric vehicle platform and will come standard with all-wheel drive and four-wheel steering.
The Cadillac Celestiq is expected to make its debut in show car form later this year. In the meantime, be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac Celestiq news, Cadillac news, GM electric vehicle news, GM technology news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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Please ask US$ 30,482,629.89 for the thing ! You could win more money
Cadillac needs a sedan priced between the CT5 and $300K (maybe $100K?). Sometjing to compete with Mercedes and Lexus. A $300K car isn’t going to save the brand.
Great.. and it will be available in Obsidian Black and Majestic Silver.
Thank god we have a nice recession coming.
Good luck selling $300,000 cars in a recession.
Remember the recession is coming because build back better agenda gave out trillions to the elites. The “stimulus” bill cost every taxpayer 16k and most of us only saw 1400 come back, so we’ll connected old money now have plenty in their pockets to buy one, maybe 2 of these 😡 oh yeah, and the fed announced that they’re going to stop inflation on the backs of the working class through interest rates instead of the government class reducing spending, so there’s that as well.
I believe it should be referred to as Build Back Broke.
I’m sure “Build Back Better” was not in fruition when the stock market crashed in March/April 2020 and the feds pumped $4 Trillion into those good people over at Wall Street.
But I’m sure you’ll kneel and be okay with spending taxpayer money if only the Orange Commie does it.
Joe Biden is the worst president of all time!!!!!!
Build Back Better wasn’t passed. I’m sure you were OK with Trump giving away $2 trillion in tax cuts to the rich who didn’t need it and printing 40% of all US dollars in existence in 2020?
Maybe it will debut in the next Ray Donavant movie like the CT6-V did , or the next Tom Cruise blockbuster .
Wow! Are we going a little over the top for a vehicle on a small platform?
I just cannot see anything head turning exceptional about this model other than lots of jewelry and cosmetics. The mechanical guts are the same as other models. Mechanical guts is what makes a vehicle. All this gee whiz electronic gadgetry and jewelry is over the top.
Now, a loaded 1968 Buick Electra 225, that was a car extraordinaire.
This is why gm is plunging head-first into EVs. They are the ultimate in platform and parts sharing. All they have to do is create a few skateboard platforms, a scalable battery pack and some electric motors and gm theorizes they can build everything. All the same internal parts will be shared and produced cheaply. In the ICE age, if gm expected to sell a $300,000 Cadillac, they needed a V12 and a unique platform with all exclusive parts. With EVs, it’s the easy money Escalade formula with a bunch of common parts, a flashy body and a big price tag with hefty profits.
I’ve used the analogy many times of a fine watch. It isn’t just the beautiful case that makes a Patek Philippe a fine timepiece. It’s the precision engineering and marvel of its mechanicals hidden behind that case. GM too often has tried to put a fancy case on Timex mechanicals and figure their buyers are too dumb to know the difference. The Cadillac Cimmaron is Exhibit A. The thing is, they did know the difference and Cadillac lost all credibility and prestige. In the all-EV all-the-time world Barra has planned for us (Everybody In), they apparently believe they’ll get away with it.
I’m confused. I thought EV’s were about saving the world and that everyone should be driving one. So far GM had offered the Bolt ~$36k and is garbage. Then the Hummer ~$100k. Then eventually the Silverado EV ~$75k and now this Cadillac ~$300k. Looks like the normal people will have to keep their ICE vehicles a little longer and pay $10.00 a gallon for gas. I pray we get a guy like Trump or DeSantis in 2025, otherwise the middle class and poor people will be taking busses or walking.
Neither of those two can do anything. Until putin is gone, the world has a big problem, a hitler level problem.
So in your hypothetical Trump/DeSantis scene, you want government telling business on what to do? There’s already tropical country 90 miles south of the US called Cuba that runs just like your utopian dream.
George Carlin – I want energy independence. I want what we had before the child sniffer took over.
You could/should have stopped after your first sentence.
Everything that you said after only cemented it as absolute fact.
At $300,000 Cadillac will be lucky to sell one Celestiq…to Mary Berra.
I know everyone here thinks that won’t sell a one, but if they only plan on selling 500, there will be a line. The ultra wealthy are not going to have a recession, and they like to be seen in something ultra exclusive. 500 copies means exclusive.
Like getting people to buy a 400k Lexus LFA and that was a supercar
Last I checked the lfa’s are going for 700k+ now. So I’d say they did ok. You could get a brand new caddy or a 10 year old lfa and spend more. Which is kind of my point. Exclusivity for the ultra wealthy.
I don’t think Toyota is making anything off those used “$700K LFA’s” but ok…..
They’ll be sure the starting price is less than 300K, it will be $299,999.99
Plus destination charges. LOL
Let it be clear that these are not automobiles. They are hoped to be investment grade placeholders to be placed in large collections. Very few will ever see the light of day. Most of us mere mortals will never see one. I guess I really don’t understand how this helps the brand or actual Cadillac buyers.
love it. where do i send my $100 reservation?
No one is going to pay 300k for a Cadillac you people are out of your mind. It’s not a rolls it’s not a Bentley it’s a Cadillac.
I smile to myself every time I read a comment like this…I cannot wait for everyone to see this car.
You’re not going to believe that Cadillac was capable of building something like it 😉
Can’t be standard of the world when all the rest of the brands cars aren’t the same quality. Do the people at GM understand how luxury brands work? Quality of a 60k Porsche is just as good as the 200k Porsche. $100 Louis Vuitton keychain has the same quality of the $2000 handbag. Unless there is gonna be cheap plastic buttons and turn signal stock from a xt4 on it.
That $2000 Louis Vuitton handbag only cost about $40 to build in a Chinese sweatshop. I know because I saw a place in Chinatown that sold original handbags at a discounted price. My wife bought one for $200.
You are clueless if you actually believe LV keychain has the same quality as their handbag. Only a fool buys LV scarves. key chains, etc. and get suckered into paying premium and then spouting off nonsense about their perceived quality. I am guessing you are that guy who one a years plops down 400 dollars on a tie, and is so proud of himself – while the tie is made in China for 20 dollars.
A car is a different item than a clothing brand. Design sells. I hope GM succeeds, but the CELESTIQ needs to be a design homerun.
Am really surprised that GM / Cadillac did not go into a collaboration with Tiffany & Company to produce a Cadillac with the Tiffany turquoise color, and a Tiffany themed trim level. This would be a huge head turner on 5th Avenue, Worth Avenue, Rodeo Drive, Shaker Blvd., Wilshire Blvd., Michigan Avenue, the Las Vegas Strip, Sunset Blvd, Constitution Avenues in Boston and DC.
You need a real head turner in a thing like this special Cadillac release. You want a vehicle where the pedestrians and sidewalk folks think the Messiah or Mohammad has arrived. Rolls Royce captured this.
Contact me for further vehicle marketing suggestions gratis. This is a fun business. Maybe see you guys at SEMA.
Don’t abandon SEMA for the Consumer Electronic Show in Sin City. The world will not be inherited by Geeks despite all the Elon Musk and Tim Cook followers.
So far this is just vapor ware like all the other Cadillac “show cars” in the past decade. I’ll believe it when I see an actual launch of the pie-in-the-sky.
Bring the US back a full-sized sedan (read CT6 second generation being developed in the US for China) and really market it. I own 2-CT6’s and have had a CT4 and CT5 as loaners for a few days when I have taken the CT6’s in for service. They are crap to put it mildly.
while everyone is complaining, I for one is excited about this. If it is priced around 300k that means gm is truly going to go all out with this. you can literally by a house for that money, so given the fact it has a speculated 100k price jump means that cadillac will truly be competitive and offer something cool. I’m sure cadillac knows that if their pricing something that has a base price of over 100k then there can be no compromises
So, I have not seen the article from WSJ because it requires a subscription. I’ll have to find another source similar to this article like MSN.
Look, this is a low volume car so for a vehicle costing around $300K needs to be priced as is. High bespoke packages will increase the vehicle’s price tag. Even if the vehicle was to start at $250K; if the owner wants expensive options or optioned up with everything, it will be at over $300K so not sure why people complaining and crying about this car who can’t afford one care or give a damn in the first place. It is for people having a net worth of 8 figures.
There are millionaires and wealthy people buying Escalades so this car will not have issue being in the same garage less so.
Too early to tell whether this will work out well. It is destined to be a successful venture if Cadillac has…. 1- a personalized sales approach where the customer is top priority; and 2- a well-planned in advance customization strategy with many choices available in areas like color, interior materials and design.
Personalization is key. And after the sale, Cadillac should have a good plan to support clients with follow up measures to ensure their enduring satisfaction.
Another affordable EV. Hits GM’s goal of selling and us buying all EV’s from them in 20 years. $110,000 Hummer and a $300,000 Celestiq. Can’t afford it??? Drive a Bolt. Oh wait…they catch fire don’t they (the Pinto of EV’s).
My call is that the Celestiq will be popular with wealthy women, either big time female corporate CEO’s, wives of big time male corporate CEO’s, females of wealth by inheritance, girlfriends and /or wives of NFL, NBA, and top baseball players, and wives / girlfriends of top professional golfers.
The car does not breath male swagger, testosorone, and moxie like an Escalade or Corvette. Even the name is something a male would see in the female cosmetics department of Nordstroms or Dillard’s, when shopping for gift perfume for his wife or significant other.
I’ve seen just as many women, if not more seen in Escalades. What are you talking about?