The First Cadillac Celestiq Owner Is Already Enjoying Their Bespoke $340,000 Ev And Parking It Like A Normal Car

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I've now lived successful Los Angeles for much than 5 years, and I've go beautiful jaded successful position of carspotting. Don't get maine wrong, I still get excited each clip I spot a Bugatti aliases a Ferrari 250 GT SWB aliases immoderate different ultra-rare car you could deliberation of, but it's very uncommon for maine to spot thing that I've ne'er seen before. I mean, I've moreover spotted nan Lancia Stratos Zero conception driving down nan road, and aggregate times astatine that. But complete nan play while connected regular thrust through Beverly Hills, my friend and I stumbled upon thing spectacular that had maine practically jumping for joy: the first customer-delivered Cadillac Celestiq.

Celestiq VIN 001 was handed complete to its fortunate proprietor connected June 24, and I hadn't realized that it was delivered by Cadillac of Beverly Hills — not moreover knowing nan car was successful my metropolis made spotting it moreover better. And it wasn't successful immoderate typical valet spot, cordoned disconnected by cones aliases ropes. It was parked connected nan street, successful a normal spot pinch a parking meter, while its owners were retired to dinner. Sure, I spot moreover much costly cars parked connected nan thoroughfare each nan time, but still, this was rather cool.

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The sun was conscionable opening to group arsenic my friend and I parked adjacent to cheque retired nan Celestiq, and nan lighting lended itself good to nan spec of this example. Cadillac confirmed to maine that nan overgarment colour is called Dolce Metallic, a awesome metallic brownish pinch immoderate warmth to it. Though I couldn't get a bully changeable of nan interior, it's besides highly brown, pinch a two-tone operation of burnt sienna–like Cinnamon and much traditionally tan Camellia leather, and Rosewood trim. 

I couldn't show what benignant of customization options this Celestiq's proprietor chose, but surely location are immoderate cool details. Every Celestiq is wholly bespoke and made-to-order, pinch customers walking to the Cadillac House successful Michigan to spec their cars pinch their ain individual concierges. In position of overgarment and upholstery you tin do fundamentally immoderate you want, and nan aforesaid goes for nan various trim pieces and components that tin beryllium etched and engraved. The interior has 150 individually hand-wrapped parts that tin each beryllium customized, and a bunch of interior pieces are 3D-printed, truthful there's room for customization there, too. Cadillac says location are 350,000 combinations conscionable from nan modular action of options. The Celestiq's guidelines value whitethorn beryllium $340,000, but I uncertainty galore will extremity up that cheap.

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It's 1 point to spot a Celestiq astatine an car show, aliases driving down nan roadworthy pinch nary different cars around, but seeing it parked connected nan thoroughfare pinch normal postulation surrounding it really emphasizes just really bananas nan Celestiq's creation is. First of all, it's huge. At 217.2 inches agelong it sits betwixt nan Escalade and Escalade ESV successful length, and it's a fewer inches longer than nan Rolls-Royce Spectre EV. The Celestiq is besides rather a spot shorter successful tallness than nan Spectre, coming successful astir arsenic gangly arsenic a Porsche Panamera. With a ace short beforehand overhang and a earnestly agelong rear overhang nan proportions are melodramatic arsenic hell, and nan wagon-y style is dissimilar thing other connected nan road.

It looks moreover much spectacular successful motion, and particularly astatine night, arsenic I was fortunate capable to witnesser nan Celestiq driving distant aft sitting astatine a stoplight. The measurement nan taillights play reddish ray onto nan crushed is fantastic, and I emotion nan lit-up grille. It is conscionable freakin' awesome. It's now been days since I saw nan Celestiq, and I haven't been capable to extremity reasoning astir it. Hopefully I'll support seeing this Celestiq regularly, and hopefully galore much will beryllium delivered to customers in Los Angeles. But not that galore — Cadillac will only beryllium making astir 25 of them this year, and it'll only person nan capacity to build astir 1 aliases 2 per time aft that. Back successful 2022, Cadillac said that it already was sold retired for astir 2 years of production.