Cadillac’s $340,000-plus halo sportback sedan, the 2025 Cadillac Celestiq, comes with a multitude of customizable options designed to appeal to high-end purchasers. From unique paint colors such as Autumn Metallic to elite interior materials like optional leather-wrapped floors, personalization is paramount with the model.
The 2025 Cadillac Celestiq features Driver Mode Control from General Motors as well, enabling owners to adjust driving characteristics to current conditions with drive modes.
Driver Mode Control in the 2025 Cadillac Celestiq is accessed through the infotainment display’s Drive Mode app. This app contains icons to activate each of the drive modes. Notably, one mode, Velocity Max, also has a physical activation button located on the steering wheel.
Three modes, including Tour mode, Sport mode, and My Mode, persist when the vehicle is switched off and restarted later. Snow/Ice mode and Velocity Max mode revert automatically to the default driving mode, Tour mode, when the vehicle is switched off.
Tour Mode
The basic default mode, Tour mode is designed to offer good handling and plenty of comfort for ordinary driving.
Sport Mode
Sport Mode, as its name implies, provides a more dynamic character for the 2025 Cadillac Celestiq along with quicker dry-pavement acceleration. Adaptive Cruise Control, steering wheel responsiveness and pedal response are all adjusted to provide the desired results. Additionally, Electric Vehicle Sound Enhancement is tuned to provide a sportier, more exciting sound.
Snow / Ice Mode
Almost the opposite of Sport Mode, Snow / Ice Mode adjusts pedal response and other driving characteristics to boost traction on wet, snowy, icy, or slushy surfaces. This comes at the expense of poorer acceleration on dry, clear roads where Sport Mode excels. Steering response and all-wheel drive (AWD) also get modified by this mode, which should be used for extra traction in inclement weather conditions only, not when the vehicle is bogged down or stuck, such as in mud or deep snow.
Velocity Max Mode
Used for a brief spurt of extra power in the 2025 Cadillac Celestiq, Velocity Max mode changes the response of the accelerator pedal. The mode can be engaged using the physical “V” button on the left side of the steering wheel. Powerful acceleration is possible because torque is maximized by this mode. It should only be used briefly, since it rapidly depletes battery charge, and cannot be activated at all when charge is low.
My Mode
My Mode is a customizable mode that can be personalized with several different settings. Five different aspects of the Celestiq’s driving can be changed. Acceleration feel can be set to “Relaxed,” “Tour” or “Sport,” while brake feel, motor sound, steering and suspension can be set to “Tour” or “Sport” only. The table below summarizes all the available settings for these different facets of driving experience in the vehicle:
| Setting | Acceleration Feel | Brake Feel | Steering | Suspension | Motor Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relaxed | X | - | - | - | - |
| Tour | X | X | X | X | X |
| Sport | X | X | X | X | X |
As a reminder, the 2025 Cadillac Celestiq utilizes a 111 kWh battery pack with its dual motors providing all-wheel drive along with a whopping 600 horsepower and 640 pound-feet of torque. The Celestiq can reportedly blast from a standstill to 60 mph in just 3.8 seconds.
Under the sheet, metal the GM BEV3 platform provides structure to the Cadillac Celestiq. Every unit is assembled by hand at the GM Global Technical Center in Michigan.
Comments
Hs anyone actually bought one of these ugly things?
That Caddy is an ugly duckling. It looks like an old French car. Those enormous former front brake air duck configurations (now the headlights) have gotten so big these days that it seems comical.
I find it stylish in its own unique way. One that looks better in real life than in pictures.
That said, what are its sales numbers? And if not available, why not?
NO ONE in America ever said “wow, thats a gorgeous car” (except the 12 people on the BOD of GM.
How long before they have a $250,000 rebate? 30 days?
This is a joke, right? That’s not actually a production vehicle?
It looks beautiful, though an ev, this is a successor to the ct6 and the brougham and fleetwood.
There’s an article elsewhere about a Fiero for sale and seeing it and the Celestiq, they have a similar surface quality and reflectivity. The Fiero’s body was made of a composite material GM called Enduraflex that was also said to be SMC (Sheet Molded Compound). Anyway, the Celestiq’s body panels have a similar appearance as if they are not metal and, interestingly, I just checked and the Celestiq body panels are SMC and carbon fiber and the car uses a “Space Frame” also like the Fiero. Maybe I’m the only one who didn’t know that but it explains the plastic-like look of the car’s body.
With the Fiero, it was touted as an advantage because the car’s styling could easily be changed and, indeed, it was tweaked over its short lift span. Given that no one seems to like the looks of Celestiq, perhaps GM could easily modify it.
Celestcalade needs a complete redesign. Call back the retired designers from years ago to fix Cadillac design.
Not only is this Ugly Hearse very Expensive, it’s also very complicated which explains why retail sales are still zero.
I think Cadillac design and engineering team has answered a question (with this particular vehicle) that no one has asked? Making a $340,000+ huge EV sedan is going be massive mistake and one that’ll be the equivalent of the “Ford Edsel” for Cadillac and GM when history records this massive failure, sales wise anyway. No matter how “futuristic” you make this vehicle, no one with a “lick of sense” will pay that kind of money for something that looks like this massive, over styled EV running on batteries! Maybe, if it was a “Hybrid” of sorts, and was made in a smaller and more realistic configuration, and for god sakes, lower that crazy MSRP to a more realistic “one hundred grand” (or at least under two hundred grand!) then you might have a chance of producing enough of these monsters to break even, but in it’s current configuration…hoo boy, I can see nothing but a major failing that’ll bring nothing but a very negative response from the public, not just in the USA, but world wide! GM has to remember that this vehicle has to compete with, oh say the Rolls Royce Spector and in my personal opinion (not that anyone asked) there ain’t no way this monster Caddy is going to be able to compete in this segment of that marketplace currently owned by The British Icon!
People will only buy an ugly vehicle to virtue signal to a certain point. This abomination is far beyond that point.
I still don’t understand why if the Celestiq is “sold out for two years” as GM claimed, there are apparently no cars being built.
They said production began (past tense) in January of 2024. They showed images to the press of cars proportedly being built. Later they said production didn’t actually start but would in the fourth quarter of ‘24 as 2025 models. Now we’re in the second quarter of ‘25 and still just a bunch of fluff stories. Where’s Lenny Kravitz? Where’s the other 800 800 buyers?
I’m starting to think this yellow Celestiq must have about a dozen coats of paint on it.
Did not think the CELESTIQ had velocity max mode. So with this mode, is this car still at 3.8 seconds with that mode or is it faster from zero to sixty?
Just like some others on here wondering why the CELESTIQ is taking so long, I wonder myself if it has something to do with the plant having issues and bugs being worked out? Are they adding few new features that were not available during the press release? There were no mention of the anti-roll control and velocity max while reading the press release but understandably, the press release would take too long to read if every available feature was listed and explained on the usage.
This does not appear to be a good look in general for Cadillac but the luxury customer don’t seem to care if they are waiting to receive one.
Lot of boomers “kaboom” over an “un affordable “ Cadillac, It’s not for you. Buy up one of the leftover XTS if you can, ok?..
What’s with your unhealthy obsession with
‘boomers’?
Super weird.
We’re begging you. Please, no more gruesome Celestiq pics!