The high-priced, massively customizable Cadillac Celestiq halo luxury sedan includes a huge selection of GM’s latest technology, some of it unique for the Celestiq at this point in time.
Now, GM Authority is putting the spotlight on how to operate the Cadillac Celestiq’s Smart Glass Panoramic Roof, which offers a high level of adjustability to the sunroof’s variable tinting.
Control over the Cadillac Celestiq Smart Glass Roof can be handled either using the switch on the right-hand side of the overhead console, or by using the virtual controls of the front or rear display screens. Using the screens, the user should navigate to the Control and Safety Menu and select the Tint option.
One choice is to let the Celestiq automatically change the tint as appropriate. The vehicle will sense the current light levels and set the Smart Glass roof to the darkest tint during the day and the lightest overnight by default. However, it’s also possible to change the tint as desired using the console or displays.
The Smart Glass roof has five tint levels, ranging from a nearly colorless tint that is close to completely clear to a dark tint. Depending on the options chosen, each of the panoramic roof’s panels can be set to a separate tint, or all can be given the same tint. The vehicle offers five different tint modes to choose from:
- Individual mode lets the occupants choose each panel’s tint level separately from 0 percent to 100 percent in 25 percent increments.
- All Clear mode sets all sunroof panels to 0 percent opacity.
- All Dark mode sets all sunroof panels to 100 percent opacity.
- Automatic mode lets the vehicle set tint as already described.
- Sync or Synchronous mode sets all panels to 50 percent opacity, with a gradient bar or slider then usable to adjust the tint.
Smart Glass achieves its results using nanotechnology, as GM Authority detailed in a previous article. The Cadillac Celestiq is the first GM production vehicle to feature Smart Glass tech, though it has appeared earlier in concept vehicles.
Beneath the sheet metal, the Cadillac Celestiq is underpinned by the GM BEV3 platform. Power is supplied by a 111 kWh battery pack. The Celestiq continues to feature a starting MSRP of $340,000 and is hand-built at the GM Global Technical Center in Michigan.
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As a GM fan and one whose living was tied to GM, I always try to keep it positive, BUT where is GM’s obsession with these gigantic sunroofs coming from? Honestly, I would pay an upcharge to NOT have that solar cooker/ scalp freezer close to the top of my head. Same with the up trim EV trucks. The vehicle is just going to be more comfortable inside without a glass panel. Even with the latest version of flimsy shades, heat and cold are still an issue.
The car is also VERY UGLY. At $340,000 I don’t think you will be seeing many of these on the road. I would get a Porsche Pananmera for less than half it’s cost and have a better looking styled vehicle. That sunroof would drive me crazy with all those lines and panels. YUCK!
Who cares??? Has anyone even bought one of these ugly monstrosities???
I sure hope Cadillac designers are going to change this things loaded diaper, and fast!
Ridiculous looking thing. An overweight, over-priced thing that visually is as long as a pickup while managing to be ultra ugly, to boot. Millions of other kids as well as myself, doodled better looking vehicles while in grammar and high school back in the late sixties/mid seventies.
The GM Design Ethos that was set in stone by Bill Mitchell and later carried on by people like Jerry Palmer is certainly dead and buried. Just a God awful steaming pile; but than again, every GM suv and truck suffers from too many Bangle Flame Treatments on every square inch of sheet metal.
This thing is just sad at this point. Once mighty GM can’t seem to build it or sell it or both yet they keep going back to the media well to hype it again and again. It’s become a joke (6000SUX) for its looks but beyond its visceral challenges, it now epitomizes so much more about corporate incompetence and the strained credibility of a company once admired around the world.
I truly hate to be so negative but the car was shown in ‘22 with production slated to begin in ‘23. Of course that didn’t happen. They told us this vehicle was sold out for two years (800 units). Later John Roth said production had finally begun in January of ‘24. They invited the press (C&D) to write a story about the novel production process last year with photos of cars purportedly being hand-crafted then we learn it isn’t actually being built despite the article. GM then says production would begin at the end of ‘24 with all cars being assigned a 2025 model year designation. That doesn’t seem to have happened either. The next story was how technicians were being trained to repair them. I’m pretty sure that occurs with any new product yet with Celestiq it was hyped. It’s just an endless stream of promotional hype but apparently no actual customer vehicles built and sold.
They tried to put Preston Tucker in jail for similar actions. They accused him of promoting and selling something that didn’t exist. He was just an inventor and dreamer legitimately trying to start a car company. GM is a massive corporation that should be above creating a similar impression.
As I said, this car is just sad. It’s sad because when GM finally had a clean slate to build a world class Cadillac this product and this inelegant design is all they could come up with and then of course, at least for me, there’s the loss of trust; I am a lifetime fan of GM yet I no longer believe anything the company says about Celestiq or any of their other EVs. That’s sad.
No way I would buy this thing! Cadillac should be working on a super car with ICE engines in V12 and V16 configurations. And employ someone who knows how to style the sheet metal good enough to turn heads, as the current car is dull and looks like any ordinary design. My Chevy Impala looks better than this!
Even the Detroit pimps won’t touch them.
No Cien. No El Mirage. Just Ultium junk that nobody asked for.
By time it comes out it’s going look old and outdated
It take a big person to admit when their wrong. So, I guess everyone that has anything to do with car is about the size of Barbie and Ken. So many of the above comments are dead on that I really can’t add anything except to say, GM swallow your pride and quit living this fantasy.
So fugly it hurts.