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Upcoming 2025 Cadillac Optiq In Gray: Live Photo Gallery

Officially unveiled for the North American market back in November 2023, the upcoming Cadillac Optiq is set to be positioned below the Cadillac Lyriq at launch. While the all-electric luxury crossover has already launched in China, it will still be some time until the Optiq begins rolling on American roads in production form. That being said, we’re taking a closer a look at a 2025 Cadillac Optiq unit spotted testing in the following GM Authority live photo gallery.

This all-new 2025 Optiq unit is painted in a gray shade – such as Argent Silver Metallic (color code GXD) – and is likely outfitted in the Premium Luxury trim level.

Side profile of 2025 Cadillac Optiq.

Starting with the exterior, this Optiq follows Caddy’s newest design language, which can also be seen on the Cadillac Lyriq and the Cadillac Escalade IQ. More specifically, the rounded front fascia is accentuated by prominent vertical lighting signatures on the outer edges, while horizontal lighting elements stretch from the front quarter-panel to the illuminated grille. The Cadillac crest sits front-and-center.

Moving around to the side, there’s a set of multi-spoke wheels, along with color-matched door handles, bright upper DLO trimming as well as black-painted mirror caps and roof. Of course, the Optiq’s beltline remains just too busy for our taste.

Out back, we can spot the Optiq’s vertical taillights, which are situated on either side of the hatch. Moving up, the vertical center stop lamp is mounted between said hatch and the top roof spoiler, as the luxury crossover actually boasts two spoilers. Finally, there’s no apparent rear wiper.

As a reminder, the 2025 Cadillac Optiq will be underpinned by the GM BEV3 platform, and will utilize GM Ultium battery and GM Ultium Drive motor technologies for motivation. In regard to availability, the Optiq is expected to be sold the United States, China, Canada and Mexico.

It’s worth noting that at least two more Caddy EVs are expected moving forward, the Cadillac Escalade IQ that debuted in August 2023 and the Cadillac Vistiq three-row crossover revealed in December 2023.

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  1. Nice looking but I like the orange color better then this grey.

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  2. Back-end looks like it got hit and bent the entire body / frame down….

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  3. I still don’t get the rear quarter glass design.

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  4. As with all Cadillac EVs, I think the front looks good, but I am not a fan of the back. At this point, I don’t think this quirkly styling is something I will grow to like.

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  5. I love this little baby Escalade… the interior is a little sporty but overall, I think this will fair well.

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  6. They aren’t unwanted. More and more people want them every year… Yes there may be a slowdown but it is still growing. Once one person in a family gets an EV others are exposed to it then more of the family loves em and then more want em and so on.

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    1. Not true at all, most people who have owned a EV unless they are die heart believers in so called man made climate change, would go back to a ice car. They just to let that get plaster over internet because it won’t follow the narrative.

      I don’t care if we have them, but they are not going to be for everyone and never will be. When the repair cost start adding up things will go south. Only way around it will be manufactures will only lease them and you will never own it. HMM sounds like what the current idiots in office want, you to never own anything, but rely on someone or some entity like the government.

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      1. LMAO LMAO LMAO I know several people who are not EV diehards who test drove EVS bought them and swear by them now.

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      2. You’re incorrect. It’s an unfortunately high number, but it’s less than half of all EV owners who go back to ICE after an EV owner. That number is under 12% for Tesla. The reason they leave is because of the shyte charging infrastructure for non-Teslas. Once other brands are regularly using Tesla’s Supercharger network, those customers will become much stickier. That’ll increase by another significant margin when their are some affordable EVs to choose from.

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  7. the ass end looks sad ,froun not a clean look

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  8. Why because there are people unlike you Beachy29579 who want EVs they just don’t want to pay $70,000, $80,000 or $100,000 thousand dollars for the EV car. Well anyway it should be you can buy ICE or EV people should have a choice not one thing or another….that’s not fair

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    1. Then go buy a junk ugly Subaru then why are you even on this post comparing a Subaru to a Cadillac? Next think you know you’ll be comparing Corvette visibility to a Camry! It’s a Cadillac it’s supposed to be different and designed this way I like it and I see some other people on here like it to…I just don’t think that back end is real because if you zoom in and look at picture closely the cutout for the lift gate look weird it should just be one rectangleular piece this has an odd shape to it that makes no sense and also look at the side view and rear end pictures look at how the from wheels seem to have more wheel gaps then the rears like the front is lifted a little like is said I think this a test car for the US and these to me look like spy shot photos. Yes I looked it again from the rear the front tires look higher in fact the whole car looks like it’s crouching on its rear I just can’t see a production model looking like this also the little triangle in the back windows what’s that eitherlines or triangles please. Like I said this is a pre production US spec car that’s not available to buy yet.

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  9. Look at that droopy butt, like a full diaper. And lo and behold, look at that big piece of quarter glass with a teeny, tiny daylight opening.

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  10. ocnblu you do know that this is a “pre production” test car model right…this isn’t final yet and if your kids diaper is dropping that much your neglecting your child….or yourself! And who the heck looks out that back back window anyway the dog or the kids not strapped in?! I have owned four SUVs and never ever used that window it could be painted for all I care! Great job Cadillac 👍🏼👍🏼

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    1. You’re funny. This vehicle is production-ready. Your friends in CHY NA can already buy it. It is not going to change one bit between now and the time it gets shipped to us from Mexico.

      The giant D-pillar blind spot is clearly a safety concern. Electronic nannies to help you see out of these bunkers (and the ironically named Optiq is not the only offender) are not to be trusted. Not sure why you can’t see that.

      Sit in a Subaru Forester and see me prove my point. Rated as one of the safest vehicles on the road. It does NOT need all that coffin-like structure to provide protection. It has WINDOWS to SEE OUT OF.

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  11. The car looks great and i too like the orange color we see in the pic.
    Will be anxious to see one in the flesh.
    I think this will become the best selling Caddie as the size will suit a wider demographic.

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  12. The rear design is terrible

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  13. ocnblu a Subaru Forester….and your talking about an ugly vehicle the d pillers look fine. Ya know years ago up until the 2000s in this country when everyone became a BIG WIMP… people would drive a car because they liked how it looked (personal opinion), how it drove, things like that safety was measured in how it handled an accident! All you WIMPS needs to grow some balls and just DRIVE MAN you want a car get in it and drive it I like this look I will adapt my driving style accordingly because I have driven everything box trucks, cars, SUVs, pickups. Reading your replies makesy head hurt!

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  14. Genesis stole the grill. Hyundai and Kia copied the Kenworth marker lights. Other than that it’s one of a kind.
    lol … you can’t make this stuff up .

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  15. Too much money for a smaller car…. I’d prefer the larger LYRIQ which I already have…. Now if they offered a reduced cost 2wd model, I’d consider it…. I like that my LYRIQ is 2wd.

    I’ll have to check out the future base Equinox’s or future BOLTs for a more basic model.

    I like a car with nice seats and silence… My extra cheap BOLT is very good, but it is much noisier.

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  16. Per photo 58 of the charger door open, can someone explain what that plug format is? NACS? It looks like a side by side plugin of 2 parts! Or is that a picture of the Chinese market version?

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    1. The fast charging port in the picture is for Chinese compatibility. Surprising they only have Cameras to take pictures in the Chinese factory.

      I have heard no news recently since TESLA decided to severely downsize their ‘Supercharging’ efforts. I would think that FORD, and GM, etc. would wait until changing from the fairly well researched CCS1 / J1772 jacks that were SUPPOSED to be a non-changeable standard, that can currently do high voltage charging.

      Changing the jack on 2026 models means those of us with 2025 or older EVs must purchase otherwise needless adapters, and supposedly the new NACS jacks would not allow high voltage charging – so people who have paid extra for superfast high voltage charging will now have found they’ve bought more vestigial features.

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      1. Bill I was reading yesterday that the 2026 Chevy Bolt will use a Tesla style charger so I can only imagine that a Cadillac which costs much more then a Chevy Bolt will use the Tesla plug! Yes that could change but even if Tesla downsizes I also read about this GM EV charging island it looks like a gas station but with chargers for EVs if that’s the future and we can charge fast then it looks pretty good. I’ll put it this way I live in Sussex NJ even if I had to go to Hamburg or Franklin to it’s only 10 to 15 minutes away and I could also shop at Walmart or ShopRite or get lunch while is charges up the ideal thing to do would be to hook up with a Walmart style store where you could easily waste a half hour to an hour or more shopping around while your EV gets a charge with all the back spaces I see empty they easily put an EV charging island there…. we’ll see I guess

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        1. Well Okay GMGUY…..

          It looks like I’m talking myself out of an OPTIC. At least with the current group of features….

          GM’s pronouncements from ‘on high’ seem to be easily changed…. At first – Absolutely NO HYBRIDS, which meant discontinuing the Malibu Hybrid, PHEV CT6 (a bit of a convoluted mess, although people seemed to like them… I test drove a used one (no new ones EVER in my area) and it drove like a boat), the sporty low-maintenance ELR was discontinued by that idiot Johann de Nysschen, the genius who spent all kinds of cash moving Caddy HQ to NYC, and then after he was fired more cash to move it back. No VOLT GEN 1, nor the vastly improved and low cost GEN 2 – absolutely no station wagons or trucks or vans using these reliable drive trains.

          Since it takes 3 years to come up with a new model, every discontinued vehicle (readers can probably think about ICE Impalas, Malibu, Camaro, Escalade pick-up, Natural gas fleet Trax, and dual fuel (gasoline and methane) Silverados and Impalas), the ICE and PHEV former models represent $millions of wasted design dollars to bring things back.

          Looking at YouTube Videos, to me the American Vehicle sales going forward seem to be in serious trouble. People simply are running out of cash and cannot afford food, nor rent. Let alone new or used high end vehicles… And Black Swan events which many economic experts are expecting haven’t even been factored in yet..

          We will have to see how nimble upper management at these companies are…. In view of the $millions wasted in the past, I can’t say I’m particularly optimistic.

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          1. Bill I agree but we’ve been in worse times before and they’ve been talking about financial gloom and doom for the past two I hope it doesn’t happen but you never know. We can blame the companies all we want it’s also people’s fault for wanting the best of everything and not having enough money to pay for everything I mean we have to live like people did decades ago and not the biggest house on the block and the best car in the driveway the American way of bigger is better is outdated…yet on the northeast where I live forget about GMC and Cadillac for the economy not doing so great I see new BMWs, Lexus, just today I was behind a Porsche 911 turbo I don’t know if people can afford these things or not but what’s wrong with a Chevy, Buick or Chrysler product? Or even Ford? I am 45 years old when I was growing up to see a BMW or Cadillac was a rare sight it ment the person driving it had the money to afford it. Also to GM said they bringing hybrids here what model though is the question the Equinox should be a hybrid, there should also be a hybrid Trax IMO the share holders running GM are in control Mary is like a puppet doing what they say they want high end expensive vehicles to line their pockets with money, the same thing is happening at UPS where I work they cut everyone’s hours full and part time but the CEO still has to make some many millions a year again it’s a share holder owned company and they don’t care about the customers trailer drivers tell me that if the customer wants UPS to wait for a pickup they tell them no that’s a good way to lose business and that’s the car companies are being run into the ground to. My point is we can’t keep up this high on the hog style of living but want things cheaper and doesn’t work out. GM’s hybrids are in China why they can’t use the technology here is silly people want hybrids so build them the volt should have been the new Malibu by now and Cadillac should have had hybrids by now but your right to many mistakes by bad management hopefully the car companies and I mean all of them Japanese, Korean, American European had better start listening to what people really want enough of this ICE free by 2035 that’s a pipe dream you can’t rush this it’s going to take time.

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      2. I thought that once GM delivered with NACS, the older models would get the adapters and could work on Tesla chargers v3 and up but not v1 or v2 Tesla chargers. So if I understood your point about not allow high voltage charging…thats not what I have been reading once GM and Tesla are in bed and GM is turned on the Tesla chargers to allow charging.

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  17. Those tail lights do not look Cadillac.

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  18. Its a glorified expensive Chevy Blazer EV. They both look the same with different trims.

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    1. I think it’s more Equinox EV sized. The Equinox EV looks kind of small in pictures, but it’s actually a pretty decent size car — much more so than the Blazer EV abomination.

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