Following a teaser late last year, General Motors has given the all-new, all-electric 2026 Cadillac Vistiq its full reveal, adding a fresh three-row crossover to the luxury marque’s growing EV portfolio. Highlights include a 33-inch infotainment screen, standard Super Cruise, and a 0-to-60-mph time under four seconds. Pricing starts under $80,000.
The most recent episode of the Cadillac Society Podcast, featuring GM Authority’s Alex Luft, tells us all about it in the video embedded below.
Outside, the 2026 Cadillac Vistiq takes after Cadillac’s established EV products, including the Cadillac Lyriq and Cadillac Escalade IQ, with highlights like a Black Crystal Shield grille flanked by vertical lighting elements and thin upper lighting signatures. Also notable is a signature D-pillar design with horizontal styling elements. A set of 21-inch wheels is standard, while 22-inch and 23-inch wheel options are offered as well.
Inside, you’ll find a 33-inch diagonal high-resolution LED screen on top of the dash. Trim options include carbon fiber on Noir upholstery, Lumen open pore wood, Black Ash Cluster wood, and available patterned accent fabric using 100-percent recycled materials. There’s also five-zone climate control. The GM Super Cruise semi-autonomous driver assist system is standard, as is a 23-speaker AKG stereo with Dolby Atmos. Road Noise Cancellation technology provides an even clearer listening environment.
Motivation is derived from a standard dual-motor drive system, with peak output rated at 615 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. A 102-kWh battery provides the juice, while range-per-charge is estimated at 300 miles. Vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging capabilities are unlocked with the optional GM Energy V2H Bundle. With Velocity Max mode activated, the Vistiq will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds.
Keeping it between the lines is standard chassis damping control, while Air Ride Adaptive suspension is optional. Active Rear Steer is offered as well.
The trim level lineup will include Luxury, Sport, and Premium Luxury. In addition to availability in the U.S. and Canada, look for the new 2026 Cadillac Vistiq to launch in various global markets, with production expected to ramp up at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee early next year, and an official launch in the summer of 2025. Pricing will start at $78,790, including destination freight charge, but excluding tax, title, and dealer fees.
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This is looking more like a smaller Escalade IQ than a bigger Lyriq. I can see this as being the new Bread and Butter
Cadillac’s directory of marketing, Brad Fanz: “”This is an outstanding platform that’s a heck of a lot closer to an Escalade than it is to the Lyriq.”
Mechanically, the Vistiq is a Lyriq. It’s the same BEV3 platform and wheelbase and same battery, but with a longer rear and modified roofline to accommodate the third row, plus more powerful motors.
The Escalade IQ is a completely different platform (BT1) with a much larger battery pack.
That obviously doesn’t matter to the marketing team. They want buyers to associate this with the most upscale model possible. “Baby Escalade” sounds better than “Lyriq’s older brother” and the general public will eat it up.
This will be basically the Global Escalade, in terms of scale and opulence.
The Vistiq will be sold in markets where the Escalade is too large.
Another EV that will pile up on Cadillac dealership lots.
The Lyriq has been of the top ten EVs in the United States the last three quarters and second in sales only to the Escalade.
If it wasn’t those heavy incentives, Lyriq wouldn’t have been in the same position. Check out how Lyriq sales went from late 2023 – early summer 2024. It wasn’t not selling until dealers were willing to dump them under MSRP.
The sales were low in late 2023 because there wasn’t any inventory to speak of in late 2023.
That’s not saying much.
I like it. Looks good, decent performance, and the price doesn’t seem too crazy. Although I do expect it to increase by a ridiculous amount.
“…and the price doesn’t seem too crazy.”
I guess it’s all in your perspective. A BASE PRICE starting at $78,790 seems like a lot me.
They’ll be leasing a huge percentage of this product which is how most people buy EV’s now. No smart buyer wants to face the downside of the very low residual values EV’s currently have. Given that, they will have certainly baked in a large lease subsidy into the pricing upfront.
Consider that the Escalade IQ is larger and significantly more expensive (starting at $128k) than the gas model (starting at $88k), so introducing a new model that is essentially a “baby Escalade” makes a lot of sense.
It is a bit smaller but retains similar styling, still offers three rows of seating and generous cargo space, has more power and faster acceleration, and is considerable cheaper than the gas Escalade (especially if the base trim qualifies for the tax credit).
Volume on this could be huge.
Unfortunately in this new political climate, government rebates might soon be gone. We’ll see…
Thats a good thing. Taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidising vehicle purchases.
Thing is that steering wheel is just awful!
Nobody has not bought a car because of a steering wheel. Besides I don’t see what’s so ‘awful’. Now a Tesla with the weird steering wheel that’s not round, yea that would be awful
I beg to differ. The new Lincoln Nautilus is a very nice vehicle but its not the Made in China I find to be the biggest turnoff. Its actually the oval steering wheel. Its one thing to change a shift lever that I only have to touch twice during a single drive but the wheel will force me to fully have to change the way I drive. I am a typical one hand on top of the wheel driver and these oval wheels will be annoying to deal with. Enough to be a dealbreaker for me.
This should have been pumped out sooner.
I can hear the auto critics already. “ANOTHER one?”. I agree.
You’re agreeing with a criticism that you made up in your head.
I agree Beachy. Is the auto industry almost completely comprised of wine moms now? Crossover, after crossover, after crossover.
Exactly. Makes a person want to barf all over these soccer mom/wine moms and their over-sized boxes. You know, they need these large SUV’s to carry little Marcus and his one friend to soccer. They need the AWD/4WD just in case there’s dew on the grass and it’s super slick. They need all the room in the back to haul that one box from BestBuy once a year or maybe that Costco run so they can carry the 400 rolls of toilet paper.
Too bad the Ultium platform is so limited. This is essentially a 3-row Lyriq. Same size battery pack as the Lyriq (102 kWh) and same range (300 miles). It’ll be a miracle if it can get 300 miles on a full charge given how heavy it looks.
You mean the platform that underpins everything from a Hummer to a BrightDrop to a Celestiq, an Equinox and even a Honda?
They really are suffering from the platform’s limitations….
You missed the Blazer EV which is the favorite of many auto reviewers, and the Optiq which began sales last month.
It is the “Favorite” of precisely 0 auto reviewers. Blazer EV is the laughing stock of the segment.
Too bad the Blazer EV won Motor Trend car of the year.
These are two different platforms.
Hummers, Escalade IQ, Silverado EV, Sierra EV are on BT1:
https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/gm-platforms/bt1/
Everything else is on BEV3:
https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/gm-platforms/bev3/
Cruise Origin and BrightDrop are on another variant, while Celestiq is on a special version of BEV3.
You are thinking of ‘platform’ like it’s 1990. Platforms today involve a very different set of engineering parameters. Essentially, it’s not just the two rails that components sit on. A platform is about systems integration across different engineering requirements, market segments, and product lines, as well as the processes and capital investment in plants, software, and people that bring these to market.
This is why you can have a Chevrolet Equinox produced on the same floor as a Hummer EV
Looks like an XT6 in EV form
Exactly, and it brings the same boring vibe with it.
Try going from 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds in an XT6.
Beautiful vehicle. Too bad it’s not offered in hybrid form.
Seems like this gives us a good hint of what the Lyriq V will have: dual motors with over 600 horsepower with available air springs.
If had the 3.0l Twin-Turbo, it’d sell like cold canned beer on a Troop Ship…
Disappointed that this will have the CCS charging port and not that NACS port. If this is a 2026 model, they should have planned better for the charging port and location, so that it would fit better with the Tesla superchargers.
Why sign a partnership with Tesla, but then continue to use the CCS ports and not think of the future and make your clients happier?
the switch over to NACS isn’t going to happen until the 2nd half of 2025.
copy of Volvo and own copy of XT6, nothing special, did not understand 30 commentaries for a normal SUV, another one
This is just going to eat into the start ups market. Rivian, and Lucid cannot possibly compete with the Cadillac brand
Clean, chiselsed, good looks. What the XT6 should’ve been. Not too late, GM. What’s wrong with an ICE version of the Vistiq?
Another EV Cadillac. Wow. My dealer has Lyriqs plied up and even with the bribes nobody is buying them. This company is as good as dead with its all EV and let everything else wither on the vine plan. It would be really nice to have some PHEV models. I owned a Model Y for nearly three years and went back to a PHEV. I’m not anti EV by a long shot, but found my zero compromise vehicle was a plug in hybrid. Sad to see Lincoln offering far more desirable products than Cadillac (aside from tue amazing BW cars)
ROFL
Lyriqs are selling quite well for Cadillac. Don’t know what trim you were seeing stuck on lots.
Is there a frunk? Have 3 kids and the xt6 is small behind the 3rd row. Adding a decent sized frunk would be extremely useful.