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Cadillac’s Lyric is a pure-electric mid-size SUV offered in rear- and all-wheel drive variants, the former offering up to 525km of range on a full charge.
In line with the Cadillac brand’s prestigious reputation, standard specification includes a 33-inch advanced LED media display, 126-colour dual-zone ambient lighting and a high-end audio package.
The line-up currently starts at $117,000 for the Lyriq Luxury 3 and ranges through to $119,000 for the range-topping Lyriq Sport 3.
Year | Body Type | Specs | Price from | Price to |
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2025
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Body Type: SUV | Specs: Electric 1 SP AUTO | Price from: $117,000 |
Price to:
$119,000
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2024
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Body Type: SUV | Specs: Electric 1 SP AUTO | Price from: $109,340 |
Price to:
$127,710
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The Cadillac Lyriq is available in eight colours, including Crystal White Tricoat, Stellar Black Metallic, Radiant Red Tintcoat, Argent Silver Metallic, Emerald Lake Metallic, Celestial Metallic, Nimbus Metallic, and Opulent Blue Metallic
Year | Body Type | Height x Width x Length | Ground Clearance |
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2025
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Body Type: SUV | Height x Width x Length: 1623x2207x4996 mm |
Ground Clearance:
177 mm
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2024
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Body Type: SUV | Height x Width x Length: 1623x2207x4996 mm |
Ground Clearance:
177 mm
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The cabin of the Lyriq is predictably plush, with comfy massaging seats, soft-touch materials and plenty of tech, but it is a little shiny and busy in places for my tastes. Minimalist this is not.
But I do like the fact that – when I’ve got Apple CarPlay hooked up – I can just leave the screen be. My driving stuff is accessed by the wheel, and everything else I want is accessible through physical buttons.
The Lyriq is a five-seat affair and is home to some of the best ISOFIX attachment points I ever used – they're housed under these plastic flaps that make them easy to find, and easy to connect to.
However, those same ISOFIX attachment points, which are so great for baby seats, are less so for the adults actually sitting in the back. You can feel the hard plastic covers, and what feels like the bracing bar running across the backseat, beneath the cushions.
Elsewhere in the backseat, there's plenty of room for backseat riders.
We don't have an offical zero-100km/h time for the Cadillac Lyriq, but estimate it to be around seven seconds.
All Aussie Lyriqs are dual-motor affairs, with an electric motor at each axle producing a total 388kW and 610Nm, which in a car this big, and which weighs just under 2.7 tonnes, is more than enough to get the Caddy up and moving, but not enough to make it feel like a supercar. The two motors mean AWD, of course.
You can have your Cadillac Lyriq in two flavours — the Luxury or the Sport.
Cadillac says the changes between the trims largely focus on the 'aesthetic signature' rather than any major equipment differences. The Luxury is gets chrome highlights, for example, while the Sport gets a darkened design theme, including the wheels, body highlights and windows.
Both trims are otherwise identically equipped, which means 21-inch alloy wheels, full LED lighting, an electric sunroof, an auto opening boot and a touch-to-open charging port.
Inside, there’s a 33-inch digital dash, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless device charging, a thumping 19-speaker AKG stereo and USB connection points galore.
The leather-wrapped front seats have heating, ventilation, a massage function, there’s heating and cooling for the window seats in the back, tri-zone climate control and there’s 126-colour ambient interior lighting.
Year | Body Type | Braked Capacity from | Braked Capacity to |
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2025
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Body Type: SUV | Braked Capacity from: 0kg |
Braked Capacity to:
0kg
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2024
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Body Type: SUV | Braked Capacity from: 0kg |
Braked Capacity to:
0kg
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Year | Body Type | Front Tyre Size | Front Rim | Rear Rim |
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2025
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Body Type: SUV | Front Tyre Size: 275x45 R21 | Front Rim: 8x21 in |
Rear Rim:
8x21 in
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2024
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Body Type: SUV | Front Tyre Size: 275x45 R21 | Front Rim: 8x21 in |
Rear Rim:
8x21 in
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Year | Body Type | Fuel Consumption* | Engine | Fuel Type | Transmission |
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2025
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Body Type: SUV | Fuel Consumption: — | Engine: — | Fuel Type: Electric |
Transmission:
1 SP AUTO
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2024
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Body Type: SUV | Fuel Consumption: — | Engine: — | Fuel Type: Electric |
Transmission:
1 SP AUTO
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It’s a big boat, the Lyriq, stretching more than five metres long and almost two metres wide. That’s not much shorter than, and in fact slightly wider than, a Nissan Patrol, just to put it into perspective. Though of course it’s nowhere near as high as a proper 4WD.
Predictably, though, its dimensions mean plenty of room in the boot, which opens to reveal a very useable 793 litres of luggage space. Drop the seats, and that number grows to a massive 1722 litres. There's no spare wheel. Only a tyre repair kit.
The Lyriq is equipped with a 102kWh lithium-ion NCMA battery, which delivers 530km on the combined cycle. Energy consumption is a claimed 22.5kWh per 100km on the combined cycle.