After many months of rumors about the manufacturing location of Cadillac’s EV crossover in North America, General Motors has just confirmed that it will manufacture the all-new Cadillac Optiq in Mexico.
The automaker’s Mexican subsidiary has finally confirmed that the all-new Cadillac Optiq will be manufactured at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant, the company’s most advanced factory in the country that was modernized to produce next-generation fully electric vehicles. A pair of GM Mexico executives confirmed to Cluster Industrial that the Mexican plant is preparing to begin production of the Cadillac Optiq in the last quarter of the year.
“The Ramos Arizpe Complex received a $1 billion investment in 2021 for the production of electric cars, as the fifth General Motors North America plant to produce EVs,” said GM Mexico’s Communications Department to local press. “Recently, Cadillac announced in Paris the launch of Optiq, which will also be produced in the Ramos Arizpe plant in the last quarter of the year,” the company added.
Remarkably, the official confirmation of the Cadillac Optiq’s production in Mexico was made very discreetly during the local debut of the new 2024 Chevy Equinox EV, which has been manufactured since the beginning of this year at the Ramos Arizpe plant. In fact, the announcement was made at the end of a presentation event in the interior of the country and as part of a statement that GM Mexico sent only to some Mexican media.
As such, the new Cadillac Optiq will become the third all-electric crossover based on GM’s Ultium architecture to be built at the Ramos Arizpe facility following the Chevy Blazer EV and Chevy Equinox EV. The facility will primarily serve North American countries and is the second production site for the new Optiq worldwide, following the Cadillac Jinqiao plant in China, which serves the Chinese market exclusively.
Production of the all-new 2025 Cadillac Optiq will begin during the last quarter of the year at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant, strategically located in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. From there, the model will be exported to a dozen international markets that, in addition to the United States and Canada, include regions such as the Middle East, Europe, Oceania and some countries in Asia. The Optiq has also been confirmed for the domestic market of Mexico.
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Even if it is built in Mexico, it is still American because Mexico is in North America, together with Canada and the U.S.
Of course, how else will they get the gov handout? I think I saw already this year 1B has been tossed to EV’s via the pre-paid EV subsidy. No need to wait for your refund anymore…
Nothing says Standard of the World like a made in Mexico Cadillac! But if you don’t like that I’ve got a made in China Buick /Geo for you. gm management as pathetic now as ever!
So because it’s being made in Mexico and not China, we should all be elated, and get mortgage to buy one.
GM has made some blunders lately, namely all electric fleet aspirations and zero hybrids. It’s getting hot here in the Midwest and traditionally the electric company asks consumers to conserve electricity on high heat days. Imagine what will happen when a large segment of the driving public is trying to charge their EVs and ComEd is telling us to shut down our home AC to lower the demand for electricity.
We should be happy because of the tax credit, yeah. The all electric (one day) fleet is a great thing. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it, but the demand for EVs is growing and there’s nothing you can do about it.
GM plans to bring in hybrids, so that line is covered.
Nothing will happen when a larger percentage of drivers go electric…the grid will grow along with it. You can charge at night, when likely your air conditioning is off. You really don’t have a logical argument…pure emotion.
You have got be kidding me made in Mexico is not American made. The only reason they assemble in Mexico is because it’s NON-UNION and they are paying the workers a lot less money and no benefits but the price of the car is still high. At least Canada is CAW Cadillac and all the other American car makers need to think back to where and who gave they there start
File under “duh” for that was obviously going to be the case.
This is yet another reason not to buy this vehicle. It seems Barra is becoming more like Jack Welch every day. GM is evening implementing an old GE ploy of stock buybacks. like GE, GM is headed for disaster. It is amazing how history repeats itself.
The Equinox EV that this is based on has been getting excellent reviews. Can’t wait to see the Optiq in-person. The interior looks way better than the NoxEV.
The downside to any of GM’s EVs is lack of CarPlay. Apple just showed some cool new features coming to CarPlay at their WWDC event.
Honda Prologue has that, also attractive pricing without excessive gobbledygook, and the Blazer EV power train.
The Prologue is bigger than I want and the interior is not as nice.
This is a disgrace! Another Cadillac built in Mexico because labor is cheap and then shipped to USA for sales and profit. GM closed down factories in the USA and said that they didn’t have the sales. This is supposed to be an American company that is only loyal to Money, not the country or the workers or the communities where the jobs used to be. They used to make SRX and Cadillac XT in Mexico until they became a bust and were discontinued. At one point in time I was proud of GM for providing about a million USA jobs until they built in china, Korea, Mexico and any other location that didn’t pay a living wage. Shame on GM hope this fails too!
I recall somebody said “Bloodbath.”
Thanks to the UAW more cars are being made outside the US. I can understand Chevy making cars in MX but not Cadillac.
For Builds their Mustang Mache E there too.
Yeah, it sucks when people want to be paid a decent wage for doing Mary’s work. Maybe she can buy a couple new pantsuits with her 29 million a year.
But, but, didn’t the UAW win a massive contact deal with lower case gm? Who didn’t see this coming?
So when ever we are given presentations about the quality of the product that each plant produces, the Ramos plant in Mexico is always dead last. Yet some how they are always given new contracts first.
That’s just another reason not to buy GM. I was a 40-year customer of GM, now I have a 2019 XT5 and a 2021 RAM 2500 (made in the US). The next one we’ll trade is the XT5. It’ll most prob be a Toyoda/Lexis
David Erwin you might want to check your vin on your Ram 2500 most if not all heavy duty Rams are built in Mexico. I am pretty sure your vin starts with a 3.
GM: still screwing the American worker.
I have questions about the plant since if their pay is $2 an hour, you end up with a vehicle that seems like it was built by someone making $2 an hour.
Canadian products are fine since they have high-priced assembly workers.
As far as the worry warts worrying that their ICE cars are going away, don’t worry about it. Even though my 3 cars are all plug ins, I can’t see more than about 1/3 of the buying public in the states ever going for them.
I believe most will purchase either full ICE, or non-plug-in hybrids. The price of electricity I do not think will rise any slower than the price of gasoline, so I don’t see any super bonanza for fueling cost for electrics going forward. They already have a big advantage here, I just don’t think it will get to be a bigger advantage.