Just a few months ago, GM Authority reported that the Cadillac Lyriq had officially launched in France. Well, the Lyriq is continuing its introduction to the European market, and now, Germany is the next country to receive the luxury marque’s all-electric luxury crossover.
Currently scheduled to make its long awaited debut in Summer 2024 for €80,500 (or roughly $86,600), the German-market Lyriq will boast similar specifications to that of the North American model.
With that in mind, the Lyriq will be updated to appeal to European tastes. More specifically, the German-spec Lyriq will feature unique suspension tuning, high-performance summer tires, Brembo brakes, and revised steering. In addition, four driving modes – Tour, Snow/Ice, Sport and My Mode – will allow the Caddy to better adapt to its changing environment. At launch, the Lyriq will be offered in Luxury and Sport guise.
In the interior, the cabin will be highlighted a 33-inch curved infotainment center, along with a 19-speaker AKG Studio audio system.
It’s worth noting that the Cadillac Optiq could also debut for the European market later this year.
The U.S.-spec Cadillac Lyriq is offered in RWD and AWD form, both with different output ratings. The Lyriq RWD utilizes a single motor mounted on the rear axle and is rated at 340 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque, while the Lyriq AWD boasts a pair of electric motors – one on each axle – and develops a combined 500 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque. Both feature GM Ultium battery and GM Ultium Drive motor technologies.
Range figures come in at 314 miles on a full charge for RWD variants, while the AWD version features 307 miles from a full charge.
The Euro-spec Lyriq is available exclusively with the two-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain, rated at 528 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque. Although that power figure would appear to be 28 ponies higher than the 500-horsepower rating attached to the North American-spec Lyriq, the difference is actually down to the EU’s engine power measurement procedures
In regard to structure, the Lyriq is underpinned by the GM BEV3 platform, while production for all markets except China takes place at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee.
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This is a start. With GM losing market share in China the writing is on the wall that they cannot take that market for granted anymore and only underscores the need to diversify their markets. I get that pulling out of Europe was necessary to better focus on EV development but putting half of your eggs into an adversary’s market basket (while the other half is at home) is foolish and dangerous to say the least. Again, I am not saying GM should abandon the Chinese market, it is their second largest market and doing so would be shortsighted to say the least, but every wise investor will tell you to diversify your investments to hedge against possibilities and a souring of relations is certainly a possibility that can be disastrous for China-dependent GM.
Had to look that up. Until last year, China was gm’s largest market starting in 2009. Last year China was 2.1M versus US 2.5M. Agree gm should start selling in EU again, but carefully. I’d hate to see them lose money in Europe again. Giving up on China is like throwing in the towel though. China is the largest market for autos.
Which is why I am trying to be clear in that they shouldn’t abandon China. It can always turn around. But given the geopolitics they can’t take that market for granted and should diversify. I don’t get why I get alot of downvotes for this all I am saying its foolish for GM not to diversify their markets and focus on only two markets of which one is at the whims of the government. Companies like VW, Toyota, Hyundai, and SAIC can be global players in multiple countries why can’t GM?
Those companies you mentioned are subsidized by their governments directly with cash and investments and they’re markets are protected by tariffs.
You’re entirely correct 85Z and who cares about down votes?
The reality is gm is no longer a true global automaker because they’ve abandoned so many countries, regions and even entire continents. That’s how you go from selling 10M vehicles globally in 2016 to 6.2M last year. Seventy six percent of those sales in just two countries. This year they’re on track to do about 5.8M units. The only question is…where’s the bottom as China sales decline rapidly for all foreign automakers. Not just gm.
Much more concerning than sales is the fact their road to profitability is even narrower than their shrinking global sales totals. Per their recent earnings report, gm is now losing money in every single region they sell in except NA and the US accounts for 91% of those sales. And within that, you can bet most of that profitability is focused on trucks and large SUV’s/crossovers. So essentially that’s their profitability window.
If I’m running an automaker with a business model so reliant on a few core products in one core market for my entire profitability I wouldn’t be sleeping well at night.
I just don’t get what is so hard to understand they need to make globally competitive vehicles. Toyota gets it, Hyundai gets it, SAIC, their partner gets it, GM seems to be the only one with their thumb up their @** with no clue. “Oh we have a problem selling this product? Ditch it. Oh we have a problem selling in this market? Ditch it.” Instead of “What can we do to make it better?” Look at the competition and see what they are doing to succeed and maybe adapt their model. Hyundai and Kia struggled at the beginning in the US. They offered a better warranty and made their products more appealing than even the Japanese. And now they are killing it. Even VW made changes to their US lineup and while they aren’t killing it like the Koreans are here, they recognized they needed to focus less on the premium twist of their cars and make affordable crossovers with the 2nd gen Tiguan vastly improving US sales. Don’t give me this “Oh we just can’t compete.” Because at that point you may as well close up shop indefinitely and save yourself the effort and us tax payers the cash bailing you out.
I’m with you 85Z.
I have no respect for the “when in doubt, pull out” style of management. That’s not leadership and it takes no special skill to do that. It’s a quitter’s mentally that inevitably leads to a dead end when they run out of things to cut.
Just think, for what Musk paid for Twitter ($44B) he could easily have bought out gm in it’s entirely (not that he’s interested in legacy automakers). Still, it shows what could happen if a truly global automaker wanted a well established and very profitable truck presence in NA. The rest of their operations aren’t worth much. Again, the risk of being on such a narrow path.
But isn’t Germany experiencing a slowdown in EV adoption at the moment?
Did I say something that is untrue?
Cadillac has had too many failed attempts to sell in Europe to have any credibility left with the consumer.
Looking forward to see a Caddy Lyriq in my street…
I wonder if our European readers can confirm that their Lyriq’s will have a CCS2 (MENNEKES) charging port, as well as a 16 amp 3-phase utilization charger which would give the same charging speed as the standard 48 ampere single-phase unit in North America, seeing as such power drains are not allowed in Europe.