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If an electric SUV from Cadillac is on your wish list, listen up, because General Motors has pulled forward production of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, a midsize electric crossover that will be available a year from now with a starting price of $59,990. Originally the Lyriq was slated to appear late in 2022 or early in 2023.
How did Cadillac manage to pull the project forward by a full nine months? Testing is ahead of schedule. Reservations for the two-row, five-passenger crossover with the rakish rear window will open in September and production begins at the Spring Hill plant in Tennessee in the first quarter of 2022. Oh, and the attainable pricing rings in below the $71,000 Jaguar I-Pace and the $67,000 Audi E-Tron.
Not only is the Lyriq arriving ahead of schedule, but when it arrives it will look strikingly similar to the wild concept car Cadillac showed us last summer, complete with a cool new black-accented face with animated lighting, gigantic wheels, and a massive 33.0-inch curved screen inside. The public can see it in a new advertising campaign that debuts Sunday night during the Oscar awards ceremony.
2023 Cadillac Lyriq Looks Just Like The Concept
Those intrigued by the show car will be hard-pressed to find differences in the production model. The 2023 Lyriq has the same new vertical signature lighting and transparent crystal black pseudo grille motif with pinstriping and the Cadillac crest that lights up. The taillights also light up like digital rain falling on the vehicle, executive director of Global Cadillac Design Andrew Smith said. The vehicle comes to life when it recognizes you, waking up with a sequential light show. "This is a leapfrog into the future."
The few changes for production are (slightly) smaller wheels, conventional door construction (show cars have bigger openings to display the interior), an extra cup holder, and five-passenger two-row seating instead of the display car's four-chair setup.
Keeping the show vehicle's design intact for a production model is not easy to do, chief engineer Jamie Brewer said. The concept needed to meet regulations around the world and meet all performance requirements and customer expectations. "The engineering team had to say we are committed to bringing the show car to life in a production vehicle," she said. "You'll be hard-pressed to find any differences between it and the show car."
At launch, the first-release Lyriq models will be offered in a choice of two exterior colors: Satin Steel Metallic or Stellar Black Metallic, Smith said. Interior is a choice of black or a speckled gray. The first models are not special editions, but they will be top-end and well-equipped.
The interior of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq is dominated by the giant curved 33.0-inch LED display with more than 1 billion colors. It has a 19-speaker AKG Studio audio system with headrest speakers and serious attention went into an active sound canceling system. Of note is the cantilevered center console that does not connect to the dash and a wood veneer with a laser-cut pattern.
Cadillac Lyriq Uses Same Ultium Battery System As GMC Hummer EV
The Lyriq is part of a new wave of electric vehicles for GM on the BEV3 electric vehicle architecture that uses the Ultium Platform battery system developed with LG Chem. The first vehicle to use Ultium will be the 2022 GMC Hummer EV full-size electric pickup, which goes on sale this fall.
GM's Ultium system can be packaged to fit vehicles of assorted sizes and shapes. While the Hummer's large frame can accommodate 24 modules, the smaller Lyriq crossover will use a 12-module, 100-kWh battery pack.
What Is The Range Of Cadillac Lyriq?
The rear-wheel-drive Lyriq will deliver 340 horsepower and 440 Nm of torque (Cadillac is—weirdly—badging new models based on torque measured in newton-meters; in American figures that's 325 lb-ft) and is expected to have a range of more than 300 miles on a single charge.
A second drive motor for the front axle that affords all-wheel drive will come later, and we expect performance variants eventually. "Sporty variants are part of our heritage," vice president of Global Cadillac Rory Harvey said, adding it is something they are looking at and evaluating.
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