General Motors unveiled the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq production car last October, pulling the sheets on the luxury marque’s all-new four-door flagship. Unsurprisingly, the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq is absolutely jam-packed with features and high-tech goodies, as befitting a flagship model. Now, GM Authority has learned that one of those features is a deployable rear spoiler.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq is equipped with a deployable rear spoiler that will automatically lift at higher speeds. Although pictures of the spoiler in the raised position are currently unavailable, the spoiler is located just aft of the rear window, and is concealed under some trim. The spoiler raises and lowers mechanically.
A deployable rear spoiler can also be found on certain German vehicles, including a handful of Porsche models (911, Panamera, Cayenne Coupe), but also on certain Audi and Mercedes-Benz models as well. Deployable spoilers serve to increase downforce at higher speeds, thus increasing vehicle stability, all without the added styling impact of a fixed spoiler element.
Indeed, the rear end of the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq would look dramatically different with the addition of a fixed rear spoiler. The four-door presents a streamlined silhouette with a gently curving roofline that falls into a tapered rear end and extended rear overhang. The profile doesn’t even show any door handles. Any sort of large fixed spoiler element would, well, “spoil” the look somewhat.
As for performance, the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq certainly isn’t lacking. Motivation is sourced from a 111 kWh GM Ultium battery pack and two GM Ultium Drive motors, the combination of which dole out 600 horsepower and 640 pound-feet of torque. Properly unleashed, the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq will spring from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.8 seconds.
Under the body panels, the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq rides on the GM BEV3 platform. The suspension setup incorporates a five-link geometry front and rear. Assembly takes place at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
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Has any Celestiq been delivered?
No. The first one is scheduled to be built in Decemeber.
Will also be the last one ????
The first hearse mobile with a rear spoiler.
Rear or front 3/4 view not bad, straight on side view, not so much. When those lighting elements in the rear are not illuminated, oh boy…
It will sell but in very limited numbers, just like most “coach-built” vehicles. I have 3 clients already asking what we can do to make theirs very unique. I know Caddy is building them to order, but mass customization has limitations.
Not feeling this. Agree front 3/4 view is attractive , rear is Aztek ugly. A better use of funds would have been a new CT6 variant or larger sedan, at a more accesible price point.
Cadillac should be focusing on cars it can actually sell. If Cadillac wants to regain its title of “Standard of the World”, it should develop and market cars that compete with Mercedes, BMW and Audi. That is exactly what Lexus did and Genesis is doing now. The CT6 and CTS were both GREAT cars, but they were never appropriately marketed. Cadillac needs to hire a Marketing person who understands marketing/ advertising, the car business, is a car person and loves Cadillacs. For Cadillac to be successful it needs to offer everything Mercedes offers, but at a price point 5-10% lower and shout it to the world. I hope they figure this out before China eats their lunch !!!!
The Lyriq and the Escalade IQ are very strong entrants into the electric space. If Cadillac gets its manufacturing and delivery model down they will be in a good position.
So, the CT6 was a very nice car at the wrong time. GM did not go all out on this car with crappy interior materials and design which did not help matters either. I went to a Cadillac dealership years ago which is no longer around and I sat in the Platinum with beige interior but the steering wheel was an eyesore and the center of the steering wheel had that ugly black plastic cover over the airbag that was totally out of place for the beige steering wheel and interior which GM corrected for Cadillac a year later with color-matched leather covered airbag on the steering wheel. Might as well have an all black interior if GM had supplier issues and introduce the beige interior later on during its lifecycle.
More and more premium luxury flagship and mid-size luxury sedans where the CT6 competed between segments are going away like the dodo bird.
If you look at sedans that are still around like the BMWs, Mercedes, Porsche, Jaguar and LS Lexus to a lesser degree, there is a reason why they are still around because more effort put into each model and the market sees that. It is hard to convince a buyer to put money on a luxury vehicle if it does not surpass customer’s expectation in a major way. GM failed with the CT6 because what I mentioned before about the interior and the CT6 competed against the CTS and XTS that killed them also.
Also, don’t be surprised if the LS sedan from Lexus be next on the chopping block soon due to less than competitiveness and unappealing product from that segment.
There might be an electric sedan that will be far superior than the second gen. CT6 that will be a little low volume costing near $100K perhaps with another vehicle costing in the mid $50K-$60K in another segment below the CT6 successor. The market had moved on and the CT6 will never come back to the states at all because 10% was unfinished from 90% effort put in in the first place that should never happened at all.
Good to see GM building station wagons again.
It is about time GM joined the deployable rear wing game…..they are only about 30 years late to the party HaHa
Glad to see this happening though. The C8 should’ve had one!!!