Cadillac Lyriq Among North American Utility Vehicle Of The Year Finalists
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The all-electric Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover was recently announced as a finalist in the 2023 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) Awards. The Lyriq will next face off against the Genesis GV60 and Kia EV6 for top honors in the North American Utility Vehicle of the Year category.
The annual NACTOY Awards recognize the most “outstanding” new vehicles of the year based on a variety of criteria, including innovation, design, safety, handling, driver satisfaction, user experience, and value. Winners are determined via three rounds of voting by a collection of jurors plucked from the world of automotive journalism, including journalists from the U.S. and Canada covering print, web, radio, and television. Jurors previously narrowed down an original pool of 47 eligible vehicles to 26 semi-finalists, and again to a group of nine finalists, with three finalist vehicles per category.
Those categories include North American Car of the Year, North American Truck of the Year, and North American Utility Vehicle of the Year. Notably, the Chevy Silverado ZR2 is a finalist in this year’s Truck of the Year category.
In the Utility Vehicle category, the Cadillac Lyriq will face two other all-electric crossovers, namely the Genesis GV60 and Kia EV6. The latest 2023 NACTOY Awards mark the first time in the awards’ history in which EVs made up the three finalists in a specific category. Three other EVs also made the final round in separate categories, including the Ford F-150 Lightning and Lordstown Endurance in the Truck category, and the Genesis G80 EV in the Car category.
The NACTOY jury will hold a final vote to determine award winners between December 30th, 2022, and January 5th, 2023. The award winners will be announced during a special event set to take place in Detroit on January 11th, 2023.
As a reminder, the Cadillac Lyriq features GM Ultium battery tech and GM Ultium Drive motor tech, while the GM BEV3 platform provides the underpinnings. The Cadillac Lyriq is produced at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee.
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The Cadillac Lyric is the ONLY winner because the other two are South Korean, not North American.
It is an honor for Lyriq to be nominated with the leading vehicles. No other company has the technology to make electric cars look as good as GM or Hyundai yet.
Retains the wacky Caddy lights and the name of the vehicle is just plain dumb.
Cadillac deserves to win with the LYRIQ. Hope they get the award.
Nice, but wish they could deliver them to order holders.
How is Lyriq even in the running? They have barely delivered any. Customer satisfaction how? Who drove them. Can’t deliver the debut addition. This is a joke.
Customer satisfaction isn’t a criterion, driver satisfaction and user experience are. For this award, it’s the journalists that evaluate these things, not customers.
Hey we just delivered one yesterday! They wasted no time on vote! It is a very nice EV can’t wait for the EV Yukon
Greatness
Will be a winner