As Cadillac makes its re-entry into the Australian and New Zealand markets, the Common Motors model will probably be doing so by the tip of 2024 with the Lyriq electrical crossover, Automotive Skilled stories.

In keeping with the Australian publication, the Lyriq will probably be made accessible in right-hand-drive from the manufacturing facility, just like the Chevrolet Corvette, which implies 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 may even be manufactured from a manufacturing facility in the USA, and within the case of the Lyriq, will probably be the Common Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

There will probably 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 places will comply with, together with extra new merchandise from the model, nevertheless the precise fashions have but to be confirmed by Cadillac executives, Automotive Skilled stories.

The report cites the model’s executives as having made a number of mentions of the model promoting in “unique volumes”, although Common Motors Australia and New Zealand managing director Jess Bala stated the model is “going to do extremely properly [in the region],” including that Cadillac will attraction to luxurious automobile patrons who take into account themselves trendsetters, the report stated.

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 Common Motors’ Ultium platform for EVs, packing a 100 kWh battery for 480 km of vary and will 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 the USA, the Lyriq begins from US$58,590 (RM273,586), in keeping with the official Cadillac web site. What do you suppose, readers – would you welcome a Cadillac entry into the Malaysian market?

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