There’s a flurry of carmakers coming to Australia’s crowded new car market, and almost all of them are Chinese brands with unfamiliar names and innocuously styled vehicles. And then there’s Cadillac. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today After coming maddeningly close to entering our market in 2009 – its launch was cancelled just weeks before its CTS sedan was set to go on sale – American luxury brand Cadillac is coming to Australia.
Orders are now open for its first (and thus far, only) model in Australia, the Lyriq electric SUV. It’ll be sold both online and through a limited network of Experience Centres: one in Sydney, and one in Melbourne. It may ride on a dedicated electric vehicle (EV) platform, but it features a long bonnet and crisply tailored lines – after all, parent company General Motors said it wouldn’t make its EVs look like “lozenges”, unlike some rivals .
.. Magalie Debellis was responsible for the design of the Lyriq, Cadillac’s first EV, as well as the ultra-luxury flagship Celestiq which we won’t get here .
While Cadillac hasn’t confirmed what’ll follow the Lyriq here, we’d put money on an expanded range of electric SUVs. US deliveries of the Lyriq actually began in mid-2022, but Australian customer orders aren’t expected to commence until late 2024 or early 2025. We’ve yet to test it in Australia, however parent company General Motors flew us to California to get behind the wheel of one.
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