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2025 Cadillac Lyriq To Use 24 Percent Fewer Parts Than 2024 Model

When it comes to mechanical simplicity, EVs tend to have their internal-combustion-based counterparts beat, with fewer components required to propel an all-electric vehicle down the road. This dovetails well with GM’s Winning with Simplicity strategy, with The General streamlining its product approach as a major cost-cutting measure. Now, GM says it will streamline its EV products as well, including the 2025 Cadillac Lyriq.

The 2025 Cadillac Lyriq will use 24 percent fewer parts than the 2024 model year.

During GM’s recent Q2 2024 earnings presentation, GM CEO Mary Barra said that the 2025 Cadillac Lyriq would incorporate 24 percent fewer parts than the equivalent 2024-model-year Lyriq.

“Winning with simplicity, which is our drive to eliminate unnecessary complexity in the way we engineer and equip our vehicles, will help ensure that we can continue to sustain and even improve our margins in the future,” Barra said. “For example, through smarter contenting and optimizing selectable options, we have been able to eliminate more than 2,400 unique parts on 10 vehicles we’re launching through the first quarter of 2025. On the 2025 Cadillac Lyriq alone, we’ve reduced the part count 24 percent from the 2024 model year with no compromises to performance or features.”

Barra went on to state that the simplicity strategy also includes the elimination of a laundry list of subsystems and the reduction of buildable electrical combinations, which, in addition to reducing costs, has the added effect of improving hardware and software.

“The work is helping us meet our $2 billion fixed cost reduction program this year, and the savings will be even greater in the future,” Barra said.

In addition to utilizing 24 percent fewer parts, we can expect the 2025 Cadillac Lyriq to offer fewer trim levels as well. Cadillac may opt to cut the base-level Tech trim given the forthcoming arrival of the Cadillac Optiq, which starts at an estimated $54,000 with all-wheel drive, as compared to a base price of $58,590 for the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq Tech RWD variant. By comparison, the Cadillac Optiq and Cadillac Escalade IQ will both launch with four trim levels, specifically Luxury 1, Sport 1, Luxury 2, and Sport 2, while the Cadillac Lyriq currently offers seven trim levels.

As GM Authority covered previously, the Cadillac Lyriq is also expected to launch a new high-performance variant dubbed the Cadillac Lyriq-V sometime during the 2025 model year.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. I wonder if any of those so called “savings” are going to be passed onto the customer?

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    1. Doubtful. “The consumer wins with reduced weight that improves efficiency”. 🙂

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  2. The vehicle already has a lot of value for the price. It’s cheaper than most of its direct competitors in the luxury segment (in some cases, nearly $30,000 cheaper).

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  3. Weight reduction bro…

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  4. “2025 Cadillac Lyriq To have 24 Percent Fewer Customers Than 2024 Model”

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    1. LOL

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    2. Haha ! Yeah !

      They keep screwing around. Like changing the perfected 2023 door handles in 2024. Now what are they going to change them to?

      Hopefully sooner or later they’ll put in a dashboard that works. In addition to my several earlier complaints at DUSK the thing is so dim I can’t see anything even though the brightness control is at max.

      Having a simpler trimmed vehicle is a good idea, whatever the model. I agree I bet they lose sales.

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      1. ” perfected 2023 door handles” ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL, no everyone hated those door handles, more like the 24s better.

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        1. One person doesn’t like them and suddenly “EVERYONE HATES THEM”.

          I like the 2023 because – although strange to someone who hasnt been in the car before, it is instantly obvious what you need to do to open the door. I’ve watched people take all of 2 seconds to figure it out.

          I went to my dealer’s showroom and all the 2024 door handles were sticking out from the car. I had no idea how to open the door. And I had the 2023.

          Perhaps that is why there is a GMA video on how to use the 2024’s door handles. If they are so great why do you need an instructional video to open the door ? No Rocket scientists here I surmise.

          Now I’m not necessarily making a brief in favor of the 2023’s door handles. But they are a completed design. Unlike the multitudinous problems with the Dashboard that supposedly “EVERYONE LOVES”.

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  5. Cost cutting lol

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  6. I’m in.

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  7. It didn’t say that the number of parts per vehicle are down 24%, but rather the parts available in the lineup. That can include reduced trim levels, color combinations, wheel and option choices as well as individual parts that may be consolidated as assemblies from suppliers.

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  8. The previous comment is correct. If you completely disassembled the 2024 and 2025 models, the pile of parts from each will be similar. In the 3 decades I spent in assembly engineering at GM, we were always focused on reducing the part NUMBER count in a product line. Reducing trims and options provided the bulk of the reductions. That said, we also re-engineered sub-assemblies to contain fewer parts to truly reduce the number going into a given vehicle for cost and assembly labor savings.

    I am sure the 2025 has some reduction in count, but it’s misleading to imply in the headline that the 2025 has 24 percent fewer parts as it drives out of the assembly plant!

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