Extraordinarily Costly Cadillac CELESTIQ Deliveries Start

The Cadillac Escalade IQ, Cadillac’s new electrical Escalade, was its top-of-the-line mannequin for some time. Nevertheless, there’s one other EV from the model that’s greater than double the value, in a league of its personal within the Cadillac fleet. That’s the Cadillac CELESTIQ. The mannequin begins at $330,000 and has a be aware saying “By enquiry solely” within the place the place you usually see “Construct & Purchase” on the Cadillac web site. Now, deliveries of the CELESTIQ have begun.

“This week, the primary hand-built Cadillac CELESTIQ was delivered to its proprietor in a personal ceremony on the Basic Motors International Technical Middle. The bespoke ultra-luxury electrical sedan, constructed to the shopper’s particular person specs, was handed over at an occasion at Cadillac Home at Vanderbilt — a state-of-the-art facility the place CELESTIQ shoppers can curate their car design by way of a extremely customized expertise,” GM writes.

GM then has some flowery phrases in regards to the automobile’s ultra-luxury nature, efficiency, tech, and customized design. It even reached again to 1908, when the automobile referred to as itself “Normal of the World.” I’m going to skip all that flowery language and self-congratulation, however listed here are some key specs for the automobile:

• 655 horsepower
• 646 lb-ft of torque
• 3.7 seconds from 0–60 mph (with Velocity Max)
• 303 miles of vary on a full cost

“Every CELESTIQ is constructed to order. Transaction MSRP might be decided by every shopper’s particular person degree of curation, beginning within the mid-$300,000 vary. Each CELESTIQ is assembled on the newly established Artisan Middle on the GM campus in Warren, Michigan,” notes in closing out its announcement.

$5 to the primary CleanTechnica reader who spots one on the street.