Shock: The Cadillac Lyriq Is The Brand’s Second-Best Seller Now And It’s Not Even Close
GM’s third quarter sales report reveals that the all-electric Lyriq is now solidly the second-best selling model in the Cadillac lineup behind the Escalade.
The midsize SUV accounted for 20,318 deliveries through September, which was up from 5,334 for the same period last year.
Escalade deliveries were down 11.1% from last year to 27,992, which still makes it the most popular Cadillac by far. dThird behind the Lyriq was the similarly-sized gas-powered XT5 at 17,844.
General Motors had its best-ever quarter ever for electric vehicle sales with 32,195 total deliveries.
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The recently-introduced Equinox EV was the top battery-powered model at 9,772 deliveries, which was followed by the Blazer EV’s 7,998.
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“GM’s EV portfolio is growing faster than the market because we have an ?all-electric vehicle for just about everybody, no matter what they like to drive,” Rory Harvey, GM executive vice president and president of Global Markets, said in a news release.
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Cadillac will be adding two more mainstream luxury models before the end of the year in the form of the Escalade IQ, which only shares its name with the internal combustion engine model, and the Cadillac Optiq compact SUV that’s based on the same platform as the Equinox EV.
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The $340,000 Cadillac Celestiq should also being deliveries soon, but it is being built in extremely low numbers, possibly fewer than 500 per year. A two-door convertible version called the Sollei was unveiled this summer as a concept, but has not yet been confirmed for production.
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The Cadillac Visitq electric three-row SUV will be added to the lineup sometime in 2025, which will give the brand an EV in each of the SUV size classes it currently competes in. Cadillac has not yet said if it will add any electric sedan or coupe models to the mix, but also revealed a design study called the Opulent Velocity this summer that offered a possible vision of what a two-door autonomous electric luxury sports car might look like.
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