The all-electric, ultra-luxury Cadillac CELESTIQ

Cadillac has drawn from each period and factor of its wealthy heritage to ship essentially the most superior, most luxurious and one of the crucial essential autos the model has ever produced.

The Cadillac CELESTIQ is a handcrafted, all-electric, ultra-luxury flagship that reestablishes the enduring model because the Standard of the World, whereas serving because the flagship for the model’s electrical future.

“CELESTIQ is the purest expression of Cadillac, acknowledging our incredible history and driving us to a bolder and brighter future,” stated Global Vice President of Cadillac Rory Harvey. “It is a completely bespoke work of automotive art, built around the most advanced and innovative technology that we have ever engineered into an automobile.”

The CELESTIQ story is constructed on legacy, with its design, cutting-edge know-how, and personalised luxurious rooted in Cadillac’s historical past of constructing handcrafted, iconic autos such because the 1933 V16 Aerodynamic Coupe and the 1957 Eldorado Brougham.

Each CELESTIQ is personally commissioned — no two will probably be alike. Clients will work immediately with their chosen vendor and Cadillac designers to comprehend their distinctive imaginative and prescient for the automotive, with unprecedented ranges of personalization tailor-made to mirror the proprietor’s tastes.

This distinctive and individualized expertise is augmented by Cadillac’s international management in electrification, out there hands-free driver help know-how and related providers. CELESTIQ units the benchmark for handcrafted, multisensory and immersive EV luxurious experiences.

“CELESTIQ is like no Cadillac before it and the client experience is equally exceptional,” stated Harvey. “Each vehicle is a unique expression of its owner, leveraging leading-edge technologies that make the driving experience personal and rewarding.”

Bespoke shopper expertise

Every CELESTIQ is a custom-commissioned reflection of its proprietor’s particular person tastes and preferences — a one-of-one mixture of artistry, authenticity, craftsmanship and unparalleled refinement.

The shopper’s journey is totally bespoke, with a extremely personalised expertise led by their chosen CELESTIQ vendor in collaboration with a one-on-one concierge to information them, in addition to entry to a Cadillac designer and unique providers. This course of will probably be meticulously curated to forge a singular relationship between Cadillac, the shopper and their CELESTIQ by means of the Custom Commissioned construct course of.

“With an extremely low volume of hand-built vehicles to be offered globally each year and an exclusive declaration process, CELESTIQ will truly be a custom-commissioned one-of-one,” stated Harvey. “Each client will experience a personalized journey to make their vehicle exactly the way they desire.”

Engineering and excellence

To create essentially the most distinctive and expressive Cadillac ever, the CELESTIQ crew rethought every thing, leading to essentially the most technologically superior car within the model’s historical past. This technological innovation allows CELESTIQ to be the final word expression of ultra-luxury and shopper customization.

CELESTIQ and Ultium

CELESTIQ channels the facility of the revolutionary Ultium Platform, which is the muse for CELESTIQ’s exhilarating efficiency and vary. This devoted EV propulsion structure combines a 111-kWh battery pack and a two-motor, all-wheel-drive propulsion system to supply a GM-estimated 600 horsepower and 640 lb-ft of torque — and a GM-estimated driving vary of 300 miles (483 km) on a full cost.

Unique amongst Ultium-based EVs are CELESTIQ’s 11.59:1 entrance and 11.63:1 rear gear ratios, which had been specifically calibrated to optimize vary and efficiency. In addition to the spectacular horsepower and torque, the car can also be projected to ship one of many quickest 0-60-mph accelerations within the section of three.8 seconds.

The Ultium Platform additionally serves as a structural factor of the car, contributing to its total power and feeling of solidity, along with its efficiency. The CELESTIQ’s battery cells are mounted horizontally, enabling the car’s lengthy, low and lean proportions, whereas the low mounting place of the pack drops the car’s heart of gravity, enhancing dealing with and trip consolation, in addition to maximizing inside spaciousness.

Regen on Demand Braking is customary and helps maximize driving vary by changing the kinetic vitality of the car’s ahead momentum into electrical energy that’s saved within the battery pack. It additionally consists of One-Pedal Driving, which might gradual the car to an entire cease utilizing solely the accelerator pedal, for very advantageous car management.

Isolated precision

The CELESTIQ trip and dealing with expertise will elevate the already-exceptional Cadillac fame for remoted precision, that means CELESTIQ affords the final word in trip refinement with out sacrifices – one of the best of each worlds. Through the idea of remoted precision, shoppers will expertise a luxurious driving expertise however nonetheless really feel related to the street on the similar time. A set of superior automotive applied sciences will provide shoppers the luxurious, remoted trip expertise they demand from an ultra-luxury car, whereas packaging an unimaginable quantity of refined content material in a big, spacious car.

“CELESTIQ offers responsiveness and athleticism typically associated with smaller performance vehicles,” stated Tony Roma, CELESTIQ chief engineer. “We have incorporated Cadillac’s expertise developing advanced chassis and suspension systems into an entirely new experience for the client.”

Indeed, CELESTIQ’s engineers made the a lot of the strong structure and developed Cadillac’s most technologically superior suspension and different efficiency programs ever.

It consists of:

• Adaptive Air Suspension: CELESTIQ makes use of an air suspension system, moderately than the coiled springs utilized in a conventional suspension system. Compared to conventional suspension programs, air suspension affords a softer, extra remoted trip for better trip high quality.
• Active Rear Steering: CELESTIQ will provide as much as 3.5 levels of out-of-phase rear steering, wherein the rear wheels flip in the other way of the entrance wheels for better maneuverability at low speeds. At larger speeds, the rear wheels will flip in-phase with the entrance wheels.
• Magnetic Ride Control 4.0: A signature Cadillac engineering innovation will discover a new residence in CELESTIQ. Originally developed for the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, the system is the world’s fastest-reacting suspension know-how, which permits for better responsiveness and enhanced isolation from street imperfections.
• Advanced AWD: CELESTIQ affords a two-motor electrical drive unit. These motors work with torque optimizer modules that analyze torque necessities for given car inputs. These modules flip the entrance or rear motors on and off as required to offer optimum torque to boost trip high quality and electrical driving vary.
• Active Roll Control: The Cadillac-first Active Roll Control characteristic is a big contributor to the car’s nimble dealing with. It employs stabilizer bars embedded on the entrance and rear of the chassis to mitigate the rolling pressure exerted on the car throughout turns and different maneuvers, enhancing the sensation of stability, management and occupant consolation.
• Active Rear Spoiler: The CELESTIQ Active Rear Spoiler deploys at decrease speeds to assist enhance aerodynamic effectivity and additional raises at larger speeds to assist preserve the car balanced.
• Ride-focused tires: CELESTIQ will characteristic out there 23-inch cast aluminum wheels with 23-inch summer-only Michelin Pilot Sport EV tires. This mixture will provide robust rolling resistance efficiency and precision steering. Designed particularly for Cadillac, the tread sample, self-sealing know-how and foam inserts allow a quiet tire for better trip isolation.
• Electric Power Steering: CELESTIQ encompasses a variable ratio entrance electrical energy steering system, much like that discovered on the Cadillac Blackwings however calibrated particularly for CELESTIQ, that works in coordination with lively rear steering to mechanically regulate to the best steering ratio relying on car velocity leading to a fascinating and intuitive driving expertise.
• 5-link entrance and rear suspension: CELESTIQ’s 5-link entrance and rear suspension gives distinctive efficiency tailor-made particularly for the excessive torque output of an electrical car motor. The suspension isolators are exactly tuned to attenuate cabin disturbances but enable correct street really feel and dealing with response, delivering on Cadillac’s promise of remoted precision.

“CELESTIQ continues the 120-year Cadillac history of leveraging the most advanced automotive technology in the service of luxury. The innovations CELESTIQ uses to offer its sophisticated ride isolation are the pinnacle of Cadillac automotive achievement,” stated Ken Althouse, CELESTIQ lead growth engineer.

Charging

When it involves charging, Cadillac is dedicated to making a seamless expertise for shoppers, whether or not at residence or on the street. When trying to cost shortly, CELESTIQ is supplied with a 200 kW DC quick charging system able to including as much as a Cadillac-estimated 78 miles of vary in solely 10 minutes of charging at a public DC quick charging station.

CELESTIQ shoppers may also have entry to Ultium Charge 360, a holistic strategy to EV charging that’s designed to simplify the general charging expertise. It consists of entry to greater than 110,000 publicly out there charging factors within the United States and Canada. And by means of the myCadillac Mobile app⁵, shoppers can discover close by charging stations, see real-time charger availability, plan routes, begin charging periods and extra.

All instructed, CELESTIQ consists of roughly 300 authorized and pending patented applied sciences and processes, together with innovation in hands-free driver help options, security options, electrified propulsion programs, related applied sciences and lots of advances discovered all through the Ultium Platform.

CELESTIQ physique construction

In creating one of the crucial essential Cadillacs ever, the CELESTIQ engineering crew rethought the elemental constructing blocks to not solely accommodate its all-electric propulsion system however present a platform for the final word expression of ultra-luxury and unmatched shopper customization, enabled by superior manufacturing strategies.

Achieving that required an all-new structure devoted solely to CELESTIQ. It relies on the Ultium Platform, which integrates the propulsion system’s battery pack and serves as a structural factor of the car, contributing to its total power, sturdiness and efficiency.

Mega castings

The CELESTIQ underbody consists of six massive precision sand-cast aluminum parts. Each casting reduces half depend by 30 to 40 parts, in comparison with typical stamped development. The advantages being extra environment friendly use of house, simplicity and improved structural rigidity. The CELESTIQ precision sand-casted content material and processes are perfect for low quantity, handcrafted, bespoke autos.

Additive manufacturing

With 115 3D printed components within the manufacturing car, the CELESTIQ demonstrates GM’s broadest use of this course of.

• The steering wheel heart is the most important steel half GM has printed in manufacturing, combining the present floor and the structural B-side of the half, whereas the seat belt adjustable information loop is GM’s first safety-related 3D printed half.
• Other 3D printed components embody: window switches, seize handles, console decor and structural items beneath the car’s floor.

Flex fabrication

Each CELESTIQ car will characteristic over 300 fabricated items all through the physique construction, chassis, inside and electrical parts. This “Flex Fabrication” course of makes use of steel sheets that may be folded and manipulated into the distinctive shapes required for the CELESTIQ design — a course of extra akin to metallic origami than conventional stamping.

Additional particulars:

• An extended dash-to-axle ratio lends to CELESTIQ’s traditional proportions which can be evocative of efficiency autos.
• Precision superior aluminum castings mixed with superior engineering and manufacturing enable CELESTIQ to accommodate massive 23-inch wheels.
• The use of superior casting strategies allowed CELESTIQ engineers to effectively bundle all applied sciences – by no means compromising on design or shopper consolation.
• Inside, the low, flat ground permits each seat to have equal ranges of consolation – every with a full vary of consolation adjustability.
• The Fixed Smart Glass Roof eliminates the necessity for a sunshade or headliner, maximizing headroom.

The CELESTIQ structure additionally incorporates a singular 48-volt electrical system that’s pushed by a digital electrical structure of its personal, which helps the car’s superior applied sciences and options. More than 30 digital controls accommodate the car’s excessive ranges of seat and local weather customization with out the necessity for conventional buttons and switches.

CELESTIQ design: Artistry and craftsmanship

CELESTIQ is the manifestation of Cadillac’s Art of Travel design philosophy, which knowledgeable the styling of the LYRIQ, in tandem with the model’s transformation to be all electrical by 2030.

The Art of Travel considers the complete encounter with the car, from its visible presence, to the wealthy really feel of its parts, and the choreographed experiences wherein curated “sense of occasion” options remodel the unusual into the extraordinary. This tailor-made strategy to each expertise an proprietor has with their automotive makes frequent parts really feel distinctly private.

“CELESTIQ is the purest expression of Cadillac’s legacy of design excellence,” stated Erin Crossley, design director, CELESTIQ. “It revives the spirit of handcrafted coaches in a vehicle that is both an artistic tour de force and a peerless sensory experience.”

In that regard, CELESTIQ’s exterior and inside had been designed collectively to current a extra holistic imaginative and prescient of ultra-luxury, electrified mobility.

The members of the design crew are artists themselves, with distinctive backgrounds in vogue, structure, industrial design and past. Each introduced their experiences and views from these completely different genres and channeled them into the imaginative and prescient of CELESTIQ.

“Everyone poured their passions into CELESTIQ,” stated Crossley. “The result is an automobile that redefines luxury through the experiences it offers its driver and passengers.”

Exterior eesign: Embracing the avant-garde

The silhouette of CELESTIQ is instantly placing. It is a daring, fastback profile, difficult the ultra-luxury house with the spirit of futurism and the avant-garde. The boldness of the grille and the vertical lighting signatures circulation seamlessly into the sloping windshield, making a concord of surfaces. CELESTIQ breathes ultra-luxury, however with an edge, a way of modernity not like anything in its section.

“It’s a progressive vision of Cadillac exterior design language that breaks from the norm of the ultra-luxury paradigms,” stated Taki Karras, exterior design supervisor, CELESTIQ. “Every element and every surface was pushed to the next level with meticulous detailing, delivering a visionary design that is unique and breathtaking.”

Every steel floor seen on the outside of the car is actual steel — together with an aluminum grille, brushed aluminum bodyside, aluminum eTrunk™ lining, rocker, taillamp and headlamp trim, and brushed steel liftgate physique openings.

The aluminum grille and Goddess within the fender is milled into solid aluminum, then the piece is machine-polished, brushed and tinted. The Goddess trim additionally encompasses a distinctive crystal factor to accommodate premium LED lighting parts.

CELESTIQ’s full exterior embodies considerate particulars for an ultra-luxury expertise.

To embody the avant-garde, futuristic imaginative and prescient the CELESTIQ silhouette evokes, the car options a number of modern applied sciences together with:

• Fixed Smart Glass Roof: In an industry-first characteristic, Suspended Particle Device Technology, multi-color ambient lighting, and lighting choreography create a singular interaction between the outside and the quantity of sunshine allowed into the cabin by means of the four-zone Fixed Smart Glass Roof.
• Automated Illuminated Charging Indicators: The cost port is surrounded by a hoop of sunshine that responds when the CELESTIQ is plugged in for charging. Visual cues point out the state of cost, together with a lit Goddess emblem above the cost port — a visible illustration of how electrification is the soul of CELESTIQ and Cadillac. Additionally, the car’s vertical lighting signatures within the headlamps and taillamps provide charging standing indicators, indicating 10% charging increments.
• Materials: Carbon fiber contains a number of areas of the outside, this materials alternative allows the designers to create distinctive varieties not attainable with conventional steel physique panels. The seen metallic surfaces are genuine steel, together with the aluminum grille, header, rocker, taillamp and headlamp trim, brushed aluminum bodyside trim, aluminum eTrunk™ lining, and brushed steel liftgate physique openings.
• 3D Printing: The use of 3D printing and additive manufacturing is cutting-edge know-how that produces a number of essential CELESTIQ design parts, such because the steering wheel décor, which might be inconceivable to create with typical steel castings and CNC milling.
• Exterior Lighting: Every single level of sunshine in a CELESTIQ lighting animation is its personal gentle supply moderately than the banks of lights utilized in many different autos. These particular person LEDs — greater than 1,600 per car (relying on the gross sales market) — create a richer, deeper lighting expertise. The choreography is accented by the Cadillac-first Digital Micromirror Device headlamps with 1.3 million pixels per facet.
• Lighting Choreography: The exterior lighting choreography begins when the shopper is roughly 15 toes away from the CELESTIQ and it detects the shopper’s key fob. The car welcomes the shopper by illuminating the entrance Cadillac Crest, earlier than gentle cascades from the center of the black crystal protect grille to the headlamps, creating the impression the car is powering up and making ready for the journey.
• Power Open and Close Doors: There aren’t any exterior door handles, for a cleaner, extra aerodynamic look. Instead, the shopper can energy open and shut the doorways simply with the press of a button.
• Wheel Choices: Carefully proportioned to suit its body and proportions, the 23-inch wheels provided on CELESTIQ can be found in virtually numerous coloration decisions. All are matched with Michelin tires wherein the sidewall is adorned with the Cadillac Precision sample to tell the shopper that the tire was designed particularly for CELESTIQ.

Interior design: A brand new customary of ultra-luxury

The CELESTIQ inside is the place Cadillac’s Art of Travel design philosophy is totally realized, the craftsmanship is clear the second a shopper enters within the cabin, the sensory expertise is ignited by means of using genuine supplies and indulgent particulars. The client-selected hand-wrapped supplies, immersive inside lighting, and gildings embody Cadillac’s imaginative and prescient for exclusivity and customization.

“With CELESTIQ, we’ve been able to push classic American luxury into a new modern space,” stated Tristan Murphy, inside design supervisor, CELESTIQ. “Executed with exceptional craftmanship, there is a staggering variety of colors, trims and genuine materials that ensure no two vehicles will ever be alike.”

With a clear, minimalist aesthetic, the cabin of the inside acts as a pure showcase for all of the completely different supplies and coloration choices. “The interior is defined by long uninterrupted surfaces and theme lines, the sense of movement is all around you. With such a clean design, it allowed the details to shine, emphasizing precision in even the smallest of areas, truly highlighting a sense of space and scale,” stated Murphy.

Immersive lighting

The inside lighting is key to CELESTIQ, that includes greater than 450 distinct LEDs, delivering an immersive sensory expertise. Clients can personalize their coloration choices for every inside lighting zone or let CELESTIQ curate the lighting combos to harmonize all through the cabin. In addition, CELESTIQ consists of 18 completely different lighting animations which showcase the inside’s lighting capabilities the place the choreography of sunshine enhances the temper.

Color, materials and finishes design: Individualized and handcrafted

CELESTIQ is the expression of Cadillac’s creative imaginative and prescient rooted within the idea that each handcrafted car is a chunk of commissioned artwork made with genuine metals, leathers, together with a premium collection of extra bespoke supplies.

“CELESTIQ provides an unparalleled freedom of expression for the client to create their dream vehicle with a multitude of possibilities to customize and personalize their interior and exterior through an immersive experience guided by the Concierge and Cadillac Design Team,” stated Laetitia Lopez, lead colours, supplies and finishes designer, CELESTIQ. “CELESTIQ is so much more than the vehicle itself, it is a piece of art. We considered all aspects of the experience — from immersing the customer in the experience to creating an intimate connection with the vehicle through genuine materials, exceptional detailing and advanced technology.”

• Hand-Finished Metalwork: Many of the steel parts all through CELESTIQ require element and end work comparable to advantageous milling, anodization and a remaining sharpening by hand, reflecting the authenticity and excessive stage of end element that goes into every handcrafted car.
• Hand-Wrapped Leather: CELESTIQ leather-based surfaces are made with premium leather-based wrapped by artisans.
• Art and Color: The shopper is concerned in each choice with regards to the colours, supplies and finishes, together with the chance to develop new colours or paint to match in collaboration with the Cadillac design crew. This allows an primarily infinite variety of decisions, guaranteeing every shopper’s car will probably be a really one-off creation.
• A Variety of Finishes: CELESTIQ will provide an countless vary of exterior and inside colours, supplies and finishes enabling shoppers to design a really distinctive car.

Technology and unprecedented innovation

CELESTIQ is distinguished by artfully built-in applied sciences that exhilarate upon first impression and develop into indispensable parts of each driving expertise.

Infotainment expertise

The centerpiece of the inside and the CELESTIQ know-how interface is a pillar-to-pillar, 55-inch-diagonal superior HD show — the most important within the section. It is a technological marvel, containing two separate screens beneath a single pane of glass. The driver-side show — with pixel density similar to an 8K display — reveals driver and shared car data, whereas the passenger facet permits the occupants to play media, use the web functionality, join their smartphones, and extra. In order to separate the passenger show from the driving force, Digital Blinds Active Privacy know-how gives a digital privateness protect, dimming the passenger display from the driving force’s view when in use.

Additionally:

• The expansive, 55-inch-diagonal superior HD display is certainly one of 5 high-definition shows within the car, together with a entrance console mounted 11-inch-diagonal touchscreen Front Command Center and a rear console mounted 8-inch-diagonal touchscreen Rear Command Center, which permit shoppers to manage many options inside the car such because the seating positions, cabin temperature, door opening and shutting, tinting the all-glass roof panel and extra.
• Rear passengers have their very own 12.6-inch-diagonal superior shows in entrance of them, mounted on the entrance seatbacks.
• A crystal multi-functional controller directs the first display and is the crown jewel of the entrance heart console, providing intuitive management of the infotainment system and different options. The exquisitely detailed dial consists of advantageous steel and glass, and it homes the Cadillac Goddess emblem.

Connected cameras

Starting with CELESTIQ, Cadillac will introduce a brand new related digital camera platform. This platform will present shoppers added peace of thoughts by giving them entry to inside and exterior cameras by means of an intuitive cell interface together with theft detection, crash recording and different helpful options.

Google built-In 

Google built-in is a useful, personalised and seamless option to improve your in-vehicle expertise. With Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play you get entry to hands-free assist, stay visitors updates, a few of your favourite apps and extra.

Fixed good glass roof

The all-glass roof panel, the most important within the {industry}, employs Suspended Particle Device know-how to permit variable transmission, that means the shopper can management the quantity of sunshine allowed into the car in 4 zones — one for every passenger space. A characteristic distinctive to CELESTIQ. The impact allows final management over the quantity of sunshine coming into the car. The tint ranges for the zones fluctuate from lower than 1%, for the darkest stage of opacity, to twenty%, which is the usual tint stage of a conventional sunroof. It can also be handled with infrared reflective and low-emissivity coatings that assist retain warmth and forestall daylight from elevating the cabin’s temperature.

Furthermore, acoustic laminated glass is used extensively all through the outside of the car, together with all home windows, to maximise sound isolation and supply a really luxurious expertise.

Advanced local weather system

CELESTIQ is the primary car to characteristic a Gentherm ClimateSense® four-zone microclimate system as customary tools. It options 33 distinctive microclimate gadgets that enable every occupant to tailor their seat heating and cooling, together with superior airflow know-how that creates actually individualized consolation. All four-seating positions will characteristic the identical stage of individualized consolation, together with a neck scarf, heated armrests in addition to heated, cooled and ventilated seats. The system also can considerably scale back HVAC vitality consumption.

Ultra Cruise 

CELESTIQ advances Cadillac’s experience in hands-free superior driver help applied sciences with Ultra Cruise. The car will probably be geared up with the entire obligatory Ultra Cruise {hardware} to allow incremental characteristic progress by way of over-the-air updates in 2024.

Additional CELESTIQ know-how highlights embody:

• A full suite of superior, lively security options⁸ that’s backed by essentially the most superior sensor programs out there from Cadillac.
• Remote Auto Parking⁸. When activated, it permits the car to detect a parallel or perpendicular parking house and information itself into the house — shifting gears, braking and steering, as wanted. This is completed with the driving force’s supervision, whether or not within the driver’s seat or exterior the car. The characteristic also can “unpark” the car, pulling it out of the parking house with out the shopper needing to be inside.

CELESTIQ sound expertise

Sound is a basic part of the CELESTIQ sensory expertise that performs a significant, complementary position to the visible and tactile parts.

Designers and engineers approached CELESTIQ sound options holistically, involving them in virtually each side of the driving expertise to raise shoppers’ sense of place and atmosphere.

CELESTIQ affords 42-speakers, together with 4 exterior audio system. In the cabin, a 38-speaker AKG Studio Reference Audio System {custom} tuned by skilled audio engineers makes use of three separate amplifiers powering 30 channels for full audio immersion. The system options applied sciences comparable to 3D Surround, Vehicle Noise Compensation, Conversation Enhancement, Phone Zones, and extra.  Altogether, it’s designed to ship a crisp, nuanced and undistorted listening expertise.

The CELESTIQ sound expertise additionally affords quietness when desired. The car will probably be geared up with Next Generation Active Road Noise Cancellation which works very similar to noise-cancelling headphones to assist eradicate street noise. When coupled with different car sound discount measures, Next Generation Active Road Noise Cancellation helps to offer a clear sound canvas inside the cabin.

The CELESTIQ sound expertise is additional elevated by means of Electric Vehicle Sound Enhancement know-how, which balances and blends the propulsion system’s sound. When coupled with Cadillac’s curated sound library, the system gives an unimaginable aural expertise.

Even the Fixed Smart Glass Roof contributes to quietness, as it’s made of seven.5-mm-thick superior noise-dampening glass — twice the thickness of a high-grade acoustic windshield, which helps reduce street noise.

Additionally, CELESTIQ introduces a Cadillac-first Vehicle Exterior Sound System, which gives Cadillac curated propulsion sounds whereas driving.

CELESTIQ world-class high quality and nanufacturing

To ship a Cadillac not like another, CELESTIQ is the recipient of a commensurately superior high quality program. It’s essentially the most bold within the model’s 120-year historical past, leveraging the complete weight of its international testing facilities for real-world validation, in addition to the capabilities of state-of-the-art digital testing that helps to cut back growth time.

CELESTIQ availability

An unprecedented, refined artisan manufacturing course of for CELESTIQ additionally contributes to its high quality, as every handcrafted car will probably be constructed with obsessive ranges of element.

“Cadillac’s brand legacy was forged with hand-building the most advanced vehicles of their era,” stated Roma. “We are returning to that tradition with CELESTIQ, creating a piece of automotive art with each one produced.”

Every CELESTIQ will probably be constructed on the General Motors Global Technical Center, in Warren, Michigan. It would be the first manufacturing car ever produced on the firm’s 66-year-old landmark design and engineering campus, with $81 million invested to help it.

The CELESTIQ manufacturing space is a high-security “clean room”-type atmosphere often called the Artisan Center, with entry granted solely to the artisans concerned with development. No greater than six autos will probably be assembled at any time, guaranteeing the numerous layers of consideration and high quality management are painstakingly executed.

Clients will probably be led by means of a design session course of by a concierge together with their CELESTIQ vendor of alternative who is devoted to guiding them by means of each side of the journey. It’s a customized relationship designed to make sure every shopper’s car is designed and crafted to their needs, whereas additionally offering updates throughout manufacturing and help after the car is delivered.

CELESTIQ is anticipated to enter manufacturing in December 2023, with an anticipated MSRP¹⁰ to start north of $300,000 and enhance primarily based on stage of personalization. CELESTIQ availability by waitlist solely. Visit www.cadillac.com for extra data.