Here’s What Cadillac Celestiq VINs Will Look Like And What They Mean
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The Cadillac Celestiq serves as the luxury marque’s range-topping ultra-luxury sedan, offered as an exclusive, highly customizable all-electric four-door for well-heeled buyers. However, the Cadillac Celestiq is also meant to be driven on public roads, and as such, it requires a VIN, or Vehicle Identification Number, which is a unique combination of numbers and letters that provides basic information on what the vehicle is. Now, GM Authority is dissecting what the Cadillac Celestiq VIN looks like and what all those digits actually mean.
Essentially, the Cadillac Celestiq VIN is composed of 17 numbers and letters in a specific configuration. Each Celestiq VIN will look something like this:
- “1G6MG5R1XSU123456”
The first three digits relate to the World Make / Manufacturer Identifier, or WMI, which includes the region of the build (1 for the U.S.), the manufacturer (G for General Motors), and the vehicle brand and vehicle type (6 for Cadillac passenger car).
The next two digits indicate the vehicle line / series, which is perhaps the most interesting part of the Celestiq VIN. MF indicates a Cadillac Celestiq Tech trim, which is likely a “base-level” trim that GM may or may not actually build. MG indicates a client-commissioned vehicle, MH is a Cadillac-commissioned vehicle, and M8 is a non-U.S., non-Canada build.
The sixth digit is the body style, with the number 5 indicating a four-door, four-window, notchback extended sedan. The seventh digit is the restraint system in use, with R indicating active manual seat belts and a slew of airbags, while the eighth digit is the propulsion type, with a 1 indicating a dual-motor all-electric powertrain with a 10-module 111 kWh battery pack. The ninth digit is the “check digit,” used across North American VINs to authenticate that the VIN is not a forgery, while the tenth digit is the model year, with an S indicating the 2025 model year.
Finally, the eleventh digit is the manufacturing location, with U indicating the Artisan Center at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, the same production location as the 2024 CT5-V Blackwing Special Edition cars, while the twelfth through seventeenth digits represent where the particular vehicle is sequentially in the production process, with lower numbers indicating earlier production.
As a reminder, the Cadillac Celestiq features GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium Drive motors, while the GM BEV3 platform provides the underpinnings.
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The VIN# and what is behind the reasoning means very little to the client of this car. If it was a customized VIN# selected by the client is different. The client wants the car, period and could care less the sequence of the numbers and letters mean and stand for.
I will forget what each number and letter stand for in less than 30 minutes after reading this story.
People DO care about this VIN. Vins are very special.
It is only special if the client requests a custom VIN# for this car, not the standard VIN#.
VIN’s cannot be “requested”
…,and it’s not “made” in Detroit.
It’s made in a suburb of Detroit.
Oh sweet baby Jeebus calm down
Detroit is spelled wrong or the stamping is bad.
Bill, the Stamping is sloppy… You can tell that there is just a whiff of the 2 missing lines of the E….
Notice that it is *NOT* union-made…. All my GM evs have an American Made UAW logo on them, and the manufacturing location is prefaced by “PROUDLY MADE”.
That is a reassuring statement to the prospective customer that the people who assembled them have done a fine job. I can state that while it is a bit early to tell on my 2023 models, the 2022 bolt euv made in 2021 has been rattle free after 50,000 miles. In fact all of my GM EVs have been expertly assembled, even at over 100,000 miles when I traded them in.
Other companies such as FORD have had all kinds of trouble with south of the border assembly, probably because $2 an hour labor gets you a vehicle that seems like they only paid $2 an hour to make it. So I personally think twice about Equinox and Blazer.
While I respect and believe in the UAW I have to say I have a 2020 Blazer made in Mexico with 75,000 miles. It is one of the best vehicles quality wise I have ever owned.
That doesn’t mean anything. If it’s a GM car made here it’s a UAW built car, plain and simple. Doesn’t require a logo or a stamp or a sticker, they just are.
Since the early 1980’s, all VINs have been 17 digits alphanumeric format, so the VIN breakdown is not new NEWS and apart from some vehicle basic identification information for authorities, insurance companies etc, the VIN break down provides little useful information.
However, while most people likely simply do not care much about their vehicle VIN information, it does provide important information for those of us servicing and repairing vehicles.
The VIN serves to identify the vehicle for ordering parts, by linking to Regular Production Option (RPO) codes related to the vehicle build, (engine, trans, braks, HVAC etc, etc,) which for service entities is the important aspect. For those interested, there are VIN decoders available on the internet.
Until 2018 MY, GM RPOs were found on the Service Parts IDentification (SPID) label located in the vehicle glove box, or other location such as under the spare tire cover in the trunk.
Since 2018 MY, there are no SPID labels on GM vehicles. However, the Vehicle Conformity Decal at the base of the drivers’s side “B” pillar has a QR code, which if decoded using a QR code reader App, will identify 48 of the vehicle RPO’s.
Many GM vehicles can have approximately 120 RPOs, so not having a SPID label and the QR label limitations, means that the VIN is very important for service facilities.
Internally, GM Investigate Vehicle History provides the RPOs via the build sheet, but more accurately the GM GDS 2 scan tool provides more complete RPO information about verified on vehicle component build data than IVH.
The VIN should have started with the letters UGLY.
Anybody know how many Celestiqs have been sold and delivered?
The year’s allotment has sold out, no deliveries yet….due to the uniqueness of each car it will take weeks to build each one.