As Cadillac makes its re-entry into the Australian and New Zealand markets, the Normal Motors model shall be doing so by the top of 2024 with the Lyriq electrical crossover, Automotive Professional reviews.
In keeping with the Australian publication, the Lyriq shall be made obtainable in right-hand-drive from the manufacturing facility, just like the Chevrolet Corvette, which suggests it won’t require conversion from left-hand-drive kind to be used in RHD markets.
Just like the C8-generation Corvette, the RHD Lyriq will even be manufactured from a manufacturing facility in america, and within the case of the Lyriq, it is going to be the Normal Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
There shall be three stores, or Cadillac Expertise Centres from launch on this area, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, and in Auckland, New Zealand. Extra areas will observe, together with extra new merchandise from the model, nonetheless the precise fashions have but to be confirmed by Cadillac executives, Automotive Professional reviews.
The report cites the model’s executives as having made a number of mentions of the model promoting in “unique volumes”, although Normal Motors Australia and New Zealand managing director Jess Bala mentioned the model is “going to do extremely nicely [in the region],” including that Cadillac will enchantment to luxurious automobile consumers who contemplate themselves trendsetters, the report mentioned.
Bala indicated that the Lyriq will compete in opposition to electrical SUVs from European producers such because the BMW iX, although Australian pricing of the Lyriq has not but to be confirmed.
First unveiled in August 2020, the manufacturing Cadillac Lyriq relies on Normal Motors’ Ultium platform for EVs, packing a 100 kWh battery for 480 km of vary and may be recharged at as much as 190 kW DC. A rear-mounted motor outputs 340 hp and 440 Nm of torque, whereas a dual-motor AWD model outputs a GM-estimated 500 hp and 610 Nm.
In america, the Lyriq begins from US$58,590 (RM273,586), in accordance with the official Cadillac web site. What do you assume, readers – would you welcome a Cadillac entry into the Malaysian market?
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