{"id":29421,"date":"2022-06-28T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=29421"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:34:27","slug":"payne-cadillac-brings-bling-to-the-ev-race-with-the-lyriq-the-anti-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/payne-cadillac-brings-bling-to-the-ev-race-with-the-lyriq-the-anti-tesla","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Cadillac brings bling to the EV race with the Lyriq, the anti-Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Park City, Utah<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Inevitably, every Dream Cruise season, someone sidles up to me, points at a passing, bling-plated 1950s Eldorado shouldering aside Woodward traffic and says:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Cadillac make cars like that anymore?\u201d<\/p>\n

Say hello to my bling-tastic\u00a02023 Lyriq tester, the first all-electric Caddy. I mean, just look at it. Chiseled bod right off a designer\u2019s sketchbook draped over huge\u00a022-inch pinwheels. Under the single-panel panoramic roof, a 33-inch screen arches across the front cabin. Below the screen, a royal blue-lined sunglasses drawer rolls out of the dash like a palace carpet … greeting a floating center console as long as the Queen Mary\u2019s bow. The console comes equipped with a silver-crusted rotary dial and knurled cupholders that should hold wine glasses, not cups.<\/p>\n

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I adjusted my front throne with chromed, door-mounted seat avatars protruding from real ash wood, then stomped the accelerator pedal with my size 15s. The 5,610-pound sled surged forward with liquid-smooth power.<\/p>\n

Yes, Cadillac is making cars like that again.<\/p>\n

Actually, it never stopped, as owners of the magnificent Escalade land yacht know. But Escalade was an outlier, a properly-named land yacht out of place in an alphanumeric soup of CTs, XTs\u00a0and Vs. Though flawed (more on that later), Lyriq signals that ol\u2019 Cadillac swagger will be standard across the lineup as General Motors Co.’s iconic luxury brand transitions to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

Startup ingenuity led by Silicon Valley electric automakers Tesla, Lucid\u00a0and Rivian has stirred interest in a new generation of luxury automobiles powered by batteries and giant screens, and it turns out Cadillac\u00a0is perfectly suited for the new electric wave.<\/p>\n