2023-08-04 22:10:37
I don’t know what the Cadillac executives are thinking, since their golden years are in the past and well in the past, back in the 60s.
I think many must have hallucinations and think that Cadillac can compete with Rolls Royce or Bentley today. I think they’re going to get a good cold shower, like when they went bankrupt in 2009, leaving behind Pontiac and Saturn (another $6 billion GM monstrosity).
When Cadillac first announced the Celestiq, where GM said it would hand-build it, it was not known that it would actually target the Rolls Royce market. Yes, he read right.
The automaker had only mentioned that Cadillac’s next electric car would cost upwards of $300,000.
Now GM has confirmed that the Cadillac Celestiq will start at $340,000.
That’s before the options, and there will be plenty of them since the vehicle is fully customizable. As far as powertrain specs go, not much has been made official regarding the Celestiq yet.
The company has noted that the electric vehicle will have a range of regarding 300 miles, 600 horsepower and acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.
Until now, GM has focused more on announcing design features and new technology that will first come to the Cadillac lineup through the Celestiq, such as Ultra Cruise.
Where will the Celestiq customers leave? Well, very easy, from music and sports celebrities who will have the car for much less than its value, so that the true fool who bought it feels identified with it.
As an analyst of the automotive world for some 40 years, I’ve seen Cadillac oddities that were super lemons, but this Celestiq thing is beyond belief.
Cadillac has emissions regulators on top of it, since it is the car that brings the most pollution to the environment, and it needs to get electric cars out early or it will end up like Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Saturn.
And knowing that it already has production problems with the Lyriq, which without going on the market already has manufacturing problems, especially electrical ones, this launching of the Celestiq to compete with Rolls Royce, is like a drowning slap before its time.
The electric Celestiq is expected to be available later in the year. Good luck to whoever buys it, he’s going to need it.
In its 117 years of existence, Cadillac has had some good and bad when it comes to cars.
These are the 10 Cadillac’s that disappointed their consumers
10- 1982-1988 Cadillac Cimarron: The Worst Stain
9- 1997-2001 Cadillac Catera: a follow-up lemon
8-1987-1993 Cadillac Allanté: exaggerated and expensive
7-2009-2013 Cadillac Escalade EXT: the truck that nobody wanted
6-1981-1984 Cadillac Fleetwood V-8-6-4: El Bucking Bronco
5-2013-2016 Cadillac ELR: Price similar to Tesla
4-2000-2005 Cadillac DeVille: The devil be with him
3-2004-2009 Cadillac XLR – Worst Sports Car
2-1980-1985 Cadillac Seville: Rhymes With The DeVille
1-2004-2016 Cadillac SRX: Not particularly reliable
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