The Lyriq is coming! The Lyriq is coming!
For Cadillac dealers, the all-electric Lyriq, starting at $60,000, is due abutting summer and can’t get actuality anon enough. Not back the 1930 V-16 has Cadillac congenital a car from the arena up to be a Cadillac, aflame leading-edge administration and loaded with first-in-field technologies, like solid roofs, multi-cylinder engines, electrical systems (including starters), altitude control, and alluring ride control.
Alas, for the aftermost quarter-century or more, Cadillac has been like the crazy uncle at General Motors’ ancestors gatherings, fabricated to sit at the children’s table and about ignored. To be sure, the cast has connected to bear conspicuously handsome cars, but about on the basic of the General’s banal clans.
Case in point, the XT6, a ample and handsome apparatus with affluence of Caddy DNA in its area metal but with the aforementioned anatomy and automated underpinnings as the GMC Acadia and Chevy Blazer. Those are competent and aggressive cartage in the $33,000 to $45,000 crossover range, but the belvedere leaves the $48,000 to $58,000 XT6 angry aloft its weight class.
Look, every accumulation architect does this because it makes sense. Design a basal architectonics and driveline and accomplish accessory modifications beyond a avant-garde artefact line. This maximizes ROI in R&D, accumulation chain, labor, and basic costs. That’s why there’s a lot of Toyota in every Lexus, a lot of Nissan in every Infiniti, a lot of Hyundai in every Genesis, and apparently too abundant Honda in every Acura.
But with Lyriq, ahh, Lyriq, GM CEO Mary Barra is starting at the top. For the accomplished bristles years, she has channeled GM’s best and brightest minds into designing and engineering what will be the belvedere for dozens of cartage by 2025. Already, we are seeing advertisements for Lyriq’s Ultium Belvedere that will undergird the Chevys, Buicks, and GMCs to follow.
At the aforementioned time, Barra has connected to advertise the pickups and SUVs that barter crave with basal modification, appropriately creating avant-garde accumulation margins and accession bags of banknote which she acclimated to transform her aggregation into an electric-vehicle producer, array plants and all. Alas, that is a adventure for a altered day which we shall title, “Why the tailgate is the best allotment of your new pickup.”
Bought right, XT6 a amount leader
Fine. Nominally, we came not to coffin the XT6, nor decidedly to acclaim it. The accord of all the reviewers is that it is good, aloof not Cadillac good. That cerebration seems to accept permeated the marketplace. The XT6 is one of the few cartage in this ambience to still be accepting bottomless banker discounts (about 12.5%, according to Edmunds.com) additional manufacturer’s incentives ($1,750, according to Consumer Reports).
Ok, at those prices, it’s a acceptable deal.
The XT6 slots aloof beneath Cadillac’s bigger entry, the Escalade, starting amount $76,195, a gussied-up adaptation of the Chevy Suburban, starting amount $52,300.
The XT6 rides on the aforementioned C1XX belvedere as a half-dozen GM products, including its abate sibling, the XT5. The belvedere is advantaged by auto and hearse builders, so we charge amount it’s strong, quiet, and comfortable.
Indeed, the XT6 is all those things. For its admeasurement and mass, about 70 inches alpine and up to 4,690 lbs. AWD, it is appreciably active and well-planted, alike at speed. The ride is compliant, and the berth is appreciably hushed. However, the aforementioned can be said for the Acadia and Blazer.
Two engines
Two engines are available, but neither delivers aberrant ammunition economy. A turbocharged 2.0-L I4 puts out 235 hp on exceptional fuel. It delivers an EPA estimated 21 mpg city, 27 highway. Subtract 1 mpg for AWD. Our tester came with a artlessly aspirated 3.6-L V-6 that put out 310 hp on approved fuel. It got about 18 mpg in town, 26 highway.
Considering the amount cogwheel amid exceptional and approved unleaded runs about 20 percent, and the inherent untrustworthiness of high-pressure, small-displacement engines, the bigger block sounds like a bigger idea.
If it’s ammunition abridgement you want, you can delay for the Lyriq or opt for the BMW X5 constituent amalgam (PHEV in the vernacular). BMW’s PHEV gets 28 afar every day on electric ability alone. It needs seven hours to recharge via a 110 outlet. New ones alpha at $63,700 but there are acclimated ones in the bazaar for a third less.
Comfy
In the cabin, there is a lot to like about the XT6. Advanced seats are absolutely Cadillac quality. If you opt for second-row bank seats, those are, too. There are affluence of USB Blazon C charging ports and the additional row gets its altitude controls. The third row is big abundant for adolescents.
Controls are accessible to use and understand. Our tester came with a aeronautics advancement that included a 14-speaker Bose complete system. We acerb acclaim that one.
Still, the XT6’s birr is no bout for the Genesis GV80, an all-digital affectation that wraps itself about the driver.
A technology amalgamation includes a beleaguer eyes dashcam with assorted viewpoints. It lets owners use an up to 32 GB SD agenda to continuously almanac videos of the car’s ambience while the car is on.
Safe
A apartment of accepted assurance appearance includes avant-garde blow admonishing and city-speed automated emergency braking, banal detection. A bench that provides haptic accordance admonishing comes standard. Warnings from the assorted avant-garde assurance appearance can appear from a beep or bench beanbag vibration. Cleverly, the larboard or appropriate ancillary of the bench can vibrate, advertence the administration of the abeyant threat. Both abandon of the bench will beat to arresting a advanced or rear blow risk.
If you appetite the acceptable stuff, like about-face automated braking and adaptive cruise ascendancy – which added manufacturers accommodate accepted – you’ll charge to buy the exceptional affluence trim.
We weren’t afflicted with the XT6’s lane-keep assist, which tended to animation from ancillary brand to ancillary brand while bushing the berth with confusing aural and beheld notifications. That’s activity to get drivers to shut it off and appropriately annihilate a driver-assist affection that can abate bang and rollover risks by a third. Note: If your lane warnings accumulate activity off, the botheration is not with the car.
Nor were we afflicted with the XT6’s headlight brightness. That’s one abode area it appear its common upbringing. Fortunately, Caddy makes auto aerial axle a accepted feature.
Regardless, the Insurance Institute of Artery Assurance makes the XT6 a Top Assurance Pick.
Better Choices
The accord aces in this class is the Genesis GV80, which looks and feels and drives like a Mercedes care to, starting at $48,900. One caveat: It is powered by a turbocharged 4-cylinder, a blazon of agent for which Hyundai has paid out billions of dollars to achieve two altered class-action suits. We accept that by now Hyundai has abstruse its lessons.
The BMW X5 is a best competitor, as are the Audi Q7 and Q8, admitting both accept bottomless ammunition abridgement ratings. We anticipate the best best in agreement of features, comfort, power, reliability, and retained amount is the $48,020 Lexus RX 450h. Powered by Toyota’s all-over 3.5-L V6 teamed with Toyota’s absolute amalgam powertrain, it delivers 30 mpg.
Built on the aforementioned belvedere as the Toyota Highlander, the Lexus RX alternation is arranged with abundant exceptional abstracts and appearance to accomplish it feel like a Lexus.
That’s a assignment Cadillac ability apprentice but, hey, the Lyriq is coming.
Test Drive is a car analysis cavalcade accounting by Bill Owney.
The 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ Debut Edition – a dynamic, avant-garde and absolutely electric SUV. Photo by Cadillac
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