Representing the second model year of Cadillac’s first-ever all-electric vehicle, the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq introduces new trim levels, new features and new paint colors over the introductory 2023 Cadillac Lyriq. Now, GM Authority photographers have captured a Chinese-market 2024 Lyriq undergoing validation testing around GM’s facilities in Michigan.
To begin, it’s clear that this particular example is a Chinese-spec model due to the Chinese-market badges on the rear liftgate. That being said, this 2024 Lyriq is coated in Radiant Red Tintcoat (color code GNT), which is a new paint color for the North American-market Lyriq.
Despite being badged as a Chinese-market unit, this 2024 Cadillac Lyriq is dressed up as a North American Lyriq Sport, which includes dark window surrounds, body-colored door handles, dark lower-body moldings, and clear-lens taillamps. As for rollers, this ensemble rides on the new 20-inch Dynamic 12-Spoke alloy wheels with the Diamond Cut/Satin Dark Android finish (RPO code RD4), which are equipped as standard fare on North American Lyriq Sport 1 and Sport 2 trims.
It’s unclear why GM is testing this Chinese-market Lyriq in North America, which is built at SAIC-GM’s Jinqiao assembly plant in China, using locally manufactured battery packs and electric motors. In fact, the Lyriq is said to use battery packs composed of cylindrical cells instead of the pouch-style technology used by Ultium Cells in our market.
As a reminder, the Sport trim level, along with the “base” Tech, are new for the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq, completing Cadillac’s Y-trim trifecta. In fact, GM Authority was the first to spot a Lyriq Sport variant in the wild.
Under the skin, the all-electric luxury crossover rides on the GM BEV3 platform, and draws motivation from GM Ultium batteries paired with GM Ultium Drive motors. Production takes place at the Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, while full pricing for the 2024 model is also available.
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Heart beat of America, built in China..
SAD..
The Lyriqs sold in North America are made in North America.
It is too bad that Cadillac is abandoning the American market and its loyal customer base.
Since Caddy has forgotten how to run a production line, and now, forgotten how to run a paint shop in the States, where the only color available is Black, its nice that the Chinese can still make nice colors.
Since they are using a totally different battery pack, it makes me wonder if this Ultium stuff is a real advance or just GM Hokum….
After all, after a few years people ALWAYS have problems with SOME of the new ICE engines which GM has bragged at the time were the greatest invention since Sliced Bread.
So I’m not looking for trouble, but I’ll have to check the warranty very carefully on my new Lyriq should the same thing apply..Up until this time GM batteries have been pretty good…. Here’s hoping the Ultium stuff is at least not worse.
Would really like to see more real pictures of the ’24 Lyriq in any model in the new colors. I selected my AWD Lyriq with the Opulent Blue bc I found a video on Cadillac SUV with it. Still would like to see the new colors in the wild and not computer generated.
I would have liked to have been able to see the color options in person myself. I think the pictures of Radiant Red Tintcoat look great. I would have put it on my ’24 AWD Sport 3, but dealer could not produce any samples or examples on other models. I chose the standard Argent Silver Metallic, at the risk of seeing myself on the road more often in a few years over paying another $1200 for a color I couldn’t see in person.
They also couldn’t show me a sample of the Nappa leather. Again, not willing to pay another $4K if I can’t touch and feel.
Oh well, I’ll likely be doing it all over again when they announce availability of the Lyriq-V.
I noticed in the posted images that there isn’t any “pull tabs” on the front doors. Has there been any updates on the improved doors handles lately?
Wow! Leave it to Cadillac and China 🇨🇳 to reintroduce the Station Wagon. Is Caddy really going to sell China made crap 💩 in the USA? Just think- you drive a car that has all that Chinese Tech, and it (the Lyriq) possibly sends spy information back to the very country who may be our greatest threat to war and our country’s national security and possible takeover some day in the (near??) future. We already know that they are spying on us, and even our stupid and incompetent government knew enough to not allow Chinese companies to build/install Chinese spyware in the form of 5G, and shoot down obvious spy balloons gathering critical information on US intelligence and security.
GM, what are you thinking? And why is our government (again, stupid and incompetent) allowing this to take place at all???
As long as politicians are paid $$$ there will be corruption and bribery….fact of life..its just that it has accelerated in the last decade.
Maybe the US will eventually end up with Chinese batteries and motors….which may be a better deal. The Chinese version has more HP and torque along with a 25 to 30 percent longer range from the articles I have read. I would rather have the Chinese batteries since range is the deal breaker for me. There are very few high speed chargers available in the northeast for fast charging. EVGO hasn’t installed a single additional one from what I can gather from their phone app. Maybe they are having financial issues. I wonder if the original Caddy offer of two years of free charging even applies anymore since I haven’t seen a single article about it for months now and every Pilot and Flying J station I have been at had no idea about any future planned EV charging at their sites. So much for the bug EVGO rollout.
What I did find is that TESLA HAS converted some of their superchargers to support standard CCS charging. Very few in the US but there IS ONE 5 miles from my house in NY that has 8 chargers and allows non-Telsa cars to charge at what I think is the full 190 rate for the Caddy. Bad news is that it costs 51 cents a KW so it will be like $53 to charge a dead Caddy. Where’s the big cost savings here versus paying for gas????
That LYRIQ in red is absolutely gorgeous. Wish that particular test model had a black roof and it would give it a huge pop even more.
Lyriq looks better with a black contrast roof