The next-generation Cadillac XT5 crossover will be exclusive to the Chinese market, per statements made by GM President Mark Reuss last year. Meanwhile, the current-generation XT5 will be offered through the 2024 model year as well as the 2025 model year in North America before its discontinuation, per a GM Authority exclusive. Now, we’ve learned that GM China is in charge of developing the next-generation Cadillac XT5 for China.
According to GM Authority sources, the next-gen Cadillac XT5 is being “home roomed” in China. Essentially, this means that GM’s Chinese operations has responsibility for the crossover’s design and development.
All in all, it certainly makes sense that a vehicle sold exclusively in China is designed and developed in China. However, this is not always the case – for example, the XT5’s stablemates, the Cadillac XT4 and Cadillac XT6, were both developed and sold globally, but were homeroomed in Michigan. This also rings true for the first-gen XT5, which was developed globally.
Earlier this month, GM Authority spy photographers captured the next-generation 2025 Cadillac XT5 undergoing real-world testing as a camouflaged prototype. As seen in photos, the next-gen Cadillac XT5 is expected to introduce revised exterior styling that includes new lighting elements front and rear, including vertically oriented lights up front placed above a set of smaller, rounded lights. The profile view reveals new wheel designs and a set of roof rails, while the rear end will be reworked as well, offering up a set of twin trapezoidal exhaust outlets.
More changes will be found inside the cabin, while the overall size of the crossover will remain more or less the same. Under the revised body panels, the next-gen Cadillac XT5 will ride on the C1-2 platform, which is basically the second iteration of the GM C1 platform under the current-gen XT5.
Meanwhile, back in North America, GM will continue to offer the current-generation Cadillac XT5 through the 2024 model year, per a GM Authority exclusive. The current-generation Cadillac XT5 will be discontinued following the end of the 2024 model year. To note, the Cadillac Lyriq is considered an indirect successor to the XT5, at least with regard to segment positioning, specifically the luxury crossover D-segment.
As a reminder, the current-generation Cadillac XT5 is offered in the U.S. with two engine options, including the turbocharged 2.0L I4 LSY gasoline engine, and the naturally aspirated 3.6L V6 LGX gasoline engine. Vehicle production takes place at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee.
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So GM lied in 2021 when they said all new Cadillac vehicles from then on would be electric? Or are they skirting it a bit as this is “just a refresh”?
This makes no F’in sense. The XT5 is Caddy’s best seller in North America. Mary Barra and GM management want to discontinue it after 2024 because they want to make Caddy an all Electric lineup now when the plan was for 2030.? Are they serious? One more generation of the XT5 in NA should be the plan Mary. My prediction is they’ll realize how insane this is and bring the China only XT5 here. If they don’t want to spend the money, just give the curremt XT5 the same refresh as the XT4. Lets see what they do with the XT6, its due for a refresh.
I doubt it comes here and I doubt we’ll even want it. I expect it will be ultra boring like the new CT6.
I’m not sure how much better they are sales wise in Canada and Mexico but the Escalade outsold the XT5 in ’22 with 40,247 units annually while the XT5 only sold 27,340 in the US so IMO those annual volume is pathetic compared to the competition. Based on these numbers of Escalade vs. XT5 sales for Canada and Mexico could be similar if not, the XT5 may have been outsold by the Escalade in all countries as well in NA.
So the XT5 was complacent way too long, competition caught up with fresher and better products and consumers discovered that there were better product for the money.
I would love to see a brand new XT5 but what is the point of having a modest refresh if you are not willing to spend the money to go all out with a bang and knowing that sales volume going to be mid-pack to the competition if not worse? Cadillac had already planned that all gas models will end by ’26 model year except for the ‘Slade. The C1 platform is not on the same level like the Alpha, Omega & T1 platforms. Go ahead and discontinue the product and stop playing with the consumers’ emotions.
The Lyriq is the XT5 replacement.
GM needs new leadership now!
Why? Care to elaborate or are you just spouting the star spangled awesome? Profits are up, sales are strong, stocks are up especially compared to the competition. What is the problem? Why do the leaders need to go when it is ran well compared to previous leadership?
They said in 2021 no new Caddy vehicles would be ICE.
In 2022 GM only sold ~27,000 XT5 in the US.
Based on orders and production rates, they will probably sell about 36,000 to 40,000 lyriq this year.
Far eclipsing XT5 sales.
With tensions rising in China, why is GM associating with China? We don’t have the technology here? Am I missing something?
Cheaper to make over in China, no unions, cheap labor, less regulations than here in the US, there chasing the almighty dollar basically.
Ya,but the upgraded XT5 should be available here.
Understand companies these days are not as loyal to the good ole USA as they were, changing of the times and i don’t blame them to a certain extent, other than selling their soul to the Chinese government so they can sell and make there product. They have to make money, please investors, do what the central bank tells them to do basically. China is eventually going to overtake our economy and understand loyalty will take a back seat. I also imagine that China wants their own models or types of cars, trucks for them or kinda like they sell different models in other countries that never make it here
@Steve
They probably know whenever they can actually start to mass produce the Lyriq they can sell just as many as the XT5 if not even more. The issue is that GM as of right now seems to be completely clueless on how to scale up their BEV’s in any significant number that will make them a profit.
This is very concerning and if I was the board I would be asking some seriously tough questions to Barra. Main question would be why have you been talking down Tesla as they are not great at Mass Production any chance you get and we are out here embarrassing ourselves every quarter with our BEV’s while Tesla keeps breaking their record?
The demand for BEV’s around the World is massive and GM is just missing out and it is costing them Billions most likely.
It’s just about battery supplies. They have a couple factories being built and one still scaling up.
But reports here are they built about 3,000 lyriq in January. They might deliver around 40k this year, which puts the Lyriq pretty good place for Cadillac sales.
Who wants them? I don’t know anyone wanting an EV?
@Carl
You must run in a very small circle then HaHa
Millions of people around the World are on waiting lists waiting to get their vehicles from many manufacturers including GM.
The Hummer and Lyriq production is embarrassing. There is no GM Fanboy way out of that.
They need to do better and do so ASAP!!!
They cannot glitch up the Blazer and Nox this badly as those will need to be high volume to turn profits for GM.
Well, I live in a large US city and I don’t know anyone looking for an EV and can only think of one charging location that I’ve and it was a big box retail parking lot and it was not being used.
As a counterpoint to your anecdotal evidence, I live in a large US city and almost everyone I know is considering an EV as their next vehicle purchase (but may be put off currently by high up front costs).
EV charging locations tend to be pretty invisible unless you are an EV owner and looking for them. As they don’t have the same giant billboards and glowing neon price signs as a gas station.
Go look at PlugShare and put your city in, there are probably hundred if not thousands of charging locations within 100 miles of you, if you are in fact in a large us city.
But mostly, people charge at home. So public charging spots aren’t that big of an issue.
@rEVolutionary
Public DC Fast Chargers are pivotal to transition to BEV’s
Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to charge at home.
But I agree with you. Even States that are allegedly completely against BEV’s or so they say still have many Chargers throughout.
Batteries are not the problem. Charging locations and long Charging times are not enticing
Cadillac needs to change their minds about ending the XT5 in North America. Lyriq vehicle won’t be a conflict. Current XT5 drivers was anticipating a refresh XT5 model. (Especially with the bland driver dashboard).
Why oh why did GM not consider a step in between all electric…hybrid? They just want to destroy the Cadillac and Buick brands by going straight to all electric? I guess when the government bails you out of financial disaster you are required to be the one taking the risks and launching all electric products in 2025, sans the Escalade. Infrastructure will not be that drastically improved to accommodate all electric vehicles in 2025. Very disappointed with GM/Cadillac. My next vehicle purchase in 2025 will be with their competition.
This is the beginning to the end of one of the gas models as we know it. The XT5 is taking the first hit of product conclusion as ICE. It will be interesting if any more changes from the set decision made prior back will surface.
It will be interesting to see how many they sell compared to the ICE model. Good luck, I have no interest in an EV.
Why not? Have you actually test driven one?
What a pitty.
Want to replace my XT5 in a couple of years with a new one. Would love to see a refresh. I can’t afford the electric one… Don’t want it either.
WHY? We should be winding down relationships with China.
More marketing genius at play. Let your American customers know that their cars were designed in China… Idiots.
The next XT5 won’t be sold here.
How can GM leadership be so blind and misguided to reality? In 10 years GM may be a niche player in North America.
Why are you still doing business with China?????
Because it’s the largest automotive market in the world.
The bottom line, they want to push the Lyriq down the throat of American drivers. If they continue to keep the XT5 ,with new improvements inside and out ,in this country, it will hurt the Lyriq sales because more Cadillac drivers will pick it over the Lyriq. They can’t let that happen,even though it would be better for their bottom line than the EV. Instead it will drive more customers away.
😂
Cadillac is a dying brand in the US, and going EV will bring in younger customers and people new to the brand.
Dream on,EV’s alone will bring GM to its knees if they don’t keep gas vehicles.
I know I am not the first to voice this. With the current world situation, and China continuing to be more and more of an adversary, why is GM continuing to double down on its development and production plans in China? If China invades Taiwan will GM help produce vehicles for the Chinese military as they did for the Nazis in WWII? I was sincerely thinking that GM is/was a Patriotic American Company. I guess pursuit of profits will be their focus.
I agree with everything you said, but u also must know that they are doing exactly what they want. Its not bad management in their eyes. You see all your big investors and huge companies just simply love the China way of doing business. Their cheap labor, the communist/capitalist society they have, no huge unions telling them what to do, lack of green new deal bs over there, 1.5 billion potential customers and list could go on and on. The power players, huge investors and companies dont give 2 shots about the USA. Its money and power of patriotic duties for them now. They would sell their mother up the river if it made money sense to them. The god forsaken ev craze bs and esg for the companies is destroy our country, or at least how it was when it was on a stronger footing. China is our biggest threat, yet in their minds its not a big deal. They will just cozy up to whatever country wins out. Thing is their rooting for China, plain and simple.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Dear Mary: Blink twice if the CCP is forcing you to do this…..
omg im lmao, China Mary
I’m not surprised…Cadillac is walking away from the US Market and its loyal customer base. It hurts, but after 42 years and 19 new Cadillacs, I may have to switch brands.
I am just copying this from above as anyone can say anything on the internet, let me try.
I have bought 17 new GM vehicles in the past 2 years. I have friends that buy a ton as well, between us we have bought 6,291 new GM vehicles in the past 4 years. If GM imports one from China, I will no longer buy GM.
See how silly that sounds? No one cares about your few new vehicles, GM sells millions. You are in the minority on caring where your vehicle is coming from. Battery operated vehicles are coming, no way around that. GM is doing both as the ICE buyers are MUCH larger than batter currently, so a slow roll out is no big deal. They will sell tons regardless of what a few key board warriors say.
You want someone to be mad at for all this, be mad at the union for driving up the costs so much with their $50 an hour pay for putting a door on an assembly line (I am embellishing that some but you get the point). Unions are a huge reason costs are so high and production has to leave the country. It is a business. Either they produce them here and they are tons more expensive, and you complain, or they produce them overseas for a ton less and you complain. Can’t win, so might as well go the route that keeps the company the most financially viable…
I remember when GM was building factories in China to assemble Buicks for the Chinese market only no imports to North America well that’s a lie I am starting to believe that GMC stands for GENERAL MOTORS CHINA ITS VERY SAD
I have been a GM customer all my life from Chevrolet to Cadillac. I have bought seven Cadillacs since 2009. I will never buy a battery powered vehicle or a one designed and built in China! I have a 2023 Cadillac XT5 and it may very well be the last GM vehicle I buy!
Anyone can say anything on the internet, let me try.
I have bought 17 new GM vehicles in the past 2 years. I have friends that buy a ton as well, between us we have bought 6,291 new GM vehicles in the past 4 years. If GM imports one from China, I will no longer buy GM.
See how silly that sounds? No one cares about your few new vehicles, GM sells millions. You are in the minority on caring where your vehicle is coming from. Battery operated vehicles are coming, no way around that. GM is doing both as the ICE buyers are MUCH larger than batter currently, so a slow roll out is no big deal. They will sell tons regardless of what a few key board warriors say.
You want someone to be mad at for all this, be mad at the union for driving up the costs so much with their $50 an hour pay for putting a door on an assembly line (I am embellishing that some but you get the point). Unions are a huge reason costs are so high and production has to leave the country. It is a business. Either they produce them here and they are tons more expensive, and you complain, or they produce them overseas for a ton less and you complain. Can’t win, so might as well go the route that keeps the company the most financially viable…
Sorry to say you might be running on old info most unionized members are on the second tier wage system and make only about $20 to $25 dollars per hour with reduced benefits and no pension but cars have not gone down in price
With that thinking, how are the Germans able to sell their cars in the US and Europe and maintain profitability with European and US workforce assemblers ?
Lyriq is made in USA with USA battery FYI
GM will never recoup they’re EV investment