Can Cadillac Celestiq make a luxury brand at General Motors again? Do not exclude her

Nearly three years of unveiling the concept of Cadillac Celestiq EV, the GM finally released the real thing: a “MID-300,000” electric car that raises luxury and external that reaches the ME-ME designed to destroy passers-by.

But is this EV detailed enough for Cadillac to? Restore its position As “world level”? One day I spent moving in this giant around Los Angeles in an attempt to find out.

Slip behind the steering wheel in the new pioneer Fastback is a good start.

I am surrounded by the skin of Zabadani – my back end is comfortable for the Kasari seat, and it is adjustable in all ways and then some of them. The suitability and finishing are accurate and high like the Richard Mail watch, and all that he touched has this distinctive aesthetic. However, in 115 cases, these 3D parts were printed, including the steering wheel center, window switches, parts of the control unit decor and even some structural pieces.

Cadillac clearly wanted to build EV without zero concessions. However, the battery package design provided specific design challenges.

Typical units in the Cadillac Celesti battery package are not uniform. Unlike Lyriq, which has a flat battery package, Celestiq contains different configurations of stereotypes in a battery package that is different altitudes. The length of the units at the bottom of the front seats is about nine inches, but the length under the rear passenger seat is only six inches long. The rear seats are brought in 12 -inch units.

Engineers needed to place some stereotypes under the central control unit to reach a 111 kW battery per hour with 303 miles of the range. The result is a shallow storage cabin that is hardly large enough to suit my wallets and glasses.

Cadillac Celestiq EV: The Drive

The appearance I received while doing CEESTIQ to store the TEENY Center control. There is nothing on the road looks graceful, with the LED dance lamp signed in the front, the long nose, and the sculpted back end. In a town full of manufactured beauty, CELESTIQ promotes real traders.

I start on the harsh streets of Hollywood, where I deliberately aims to the sidewalk and the opening. My test is SHOD with 22-inch wheels-although 23-inch wheels-and Michelin Pilot Sport Ev with a very few side wall.

The presence of this small rubber between the car and the sidewalk often leads to a harsh journey, but Celestiq has a compatible suspension with the air that keeps everything. More events such as drilling make their presence known, but driving in the city is calm and smooth.

Do not make mistakes, This car is Biggun. Cadillac Celestiq has a larger fingerprint than a dual -door Chevrolet Silverado, making it more than that with a little rear steering. Certainly, it is somewhat difficult to find parking lots on the streets in this evil boy, but this car is likely to find itself in its ranks.

Leave Hollywood, I go to the hills to see 655 hp and 646 lb -torque can do on a winding road. Here the magnetic ride control lights up, rapidly interacts with the road in addition to transporting the car’s weight to provide a confident feeling of control. With the help of active roll control, the car feels surface through the turns despite its ZAFTIG dimensions.

The guidance here is a little numbness, but it is well likely and the Regen brake provides a new skill to overcome it. I find that in Max Regen, if I can raise the pedal, then I never have to reach the mechanical brakes before heading to the corner. The weight is still moving forward, so I have a fist, but I also get free electrons at the same time.

I love him.

I lift the Dolby Atmos sound system that flows from 38 AKG applications – there are four outside the car that produces cold EV sounds for those who are lucky enough to walk – and go to the highway. Of course, the GM Super Cruise advanced driver’s assistance system is here, so I lift my hand from the steering wheel and let the car takes its tasks for a period of time in traffic.

Cadillac Celestiq EV is a problem

Here lies the biggest problem with Cilest. I am not necessarily angry because all GM electric cars are working on Google built on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Google Maps are great in this car, as you expect a winding accuracy when I arrive at a site, providing charging stations and salty battery if necessary. I cannot reliably get the system with my phone to get texts and phone calls exempt from the hands.

And not only in Cilest. In both Optiq and Escalade IQ, the process was Persnickety. There are many settings on my iPhone must be correct, and sometimes I must contact if you turn off the car, and after several times he refuses to tell me that I have a container.

Developed customers demand simplicity and ease of use. This smartphone integration system is not.

Cadillac Celestic Yves inner

But at least the screens look great.

It extends through an outbreak, there are 55 inches of high -precision. The passenger gets his own screen to broadcast media and browsing the Internet and all climate control items on a smaller screen under the impulse.

I would like to give my kingdom to some of the physical HVAC buttons, but on a car like this, I will settle on a separate screen where at least I should not pass through a set of menus just to run the air conditioner.

Massage seats here, of course, seem to remain a little longer than the other luxury compounds that you have paid. There is no heated and cooler cup holder, and I think the omission that I think is forgotten to forget a creamy service with your caviar, but Cadillac told me that he could add the advantage if someone really wanted.

Drill the glass ceiling that can weaken up to 20 % of the ostrich in any of the four regions. Every person in the car can customize the amount of light they want to allow to enter part of the car.

I don’t sell 100 % on the gates of energy, because my mind only goes to the worst scenario of the worst cases of being stuck inside the car in the entire parking yard or something like that. However, it is great to click on the brake pedal and close the door automatically. There is also an icon on the lower screen that will close the doors, so that travelers can enter the low -tech vehicle.

Cadillac joint experience EV

Each Cellistiq by hand at the GENERAL MOTORS global technical center will be manufactured in Michigan.

I was slightly affected by what customers will test because I worked with a designer to choose my favorite colors and materials. The choice of what might have been 50 shades of everything was a bit overwhelming, but I went out with my dreams in Kingfisher Tricoat, a wonderful blue I think it is well with the long wheelbase and the Fastback definition file, and inside me of gray gray and orange Bahia with blue phantom dialects. What can I say? Dig blue and orange.

With the progress of today, I dealt with the Cadillac Concier -service service that customers will test as they pass the purchase. I have always been sure to follow a cold diet, Dr. Bieber in my hands, and lunch options were designed for immature cooking tastes. In other words, I had Tator Tots at lunch, and I am not embarrassing about it.

Although CELESTIQ customers will likely use them as a concrete for logistical service requests and do not ask for abundant amounts of carbohydrates and caffeine, the important point is to have someone to meet every bleeding to buy cars.

There is not much in the Uber-Fluxury EV market. Cadillac Celeste’s basic competition may be Rolls -Royce Specter Eve with her wonderful titles at night. However, Celestiq mostly sit alone in the battery and battery sector.

Bentley does not have a full battery width after that, only hybrid, and even Mercedes did not completely elect a Maybach S-Class sedan, although you can get a Maybach eq suv.

If you want one in your garage, well, good luck. Cadillac will produce a limited range of 25 vehicles for 2025 and almost all spoken. The company will not give specific numbers for the year 2026, saying only that production will be enlarged Less than two Cilest a day.