Anyone have experience with the Cadillac Lyriq?

[Great Gatsby]

We own a '26 Sierra EV AT4. The platform and hardware are solid. The software is horrendous. If we didn't also have a Rivian maybe it wouldn't be so frustrating. Every time I get in the truck only to discover my key fob is in the kitchen drawer I start cussing like a drunk sailor. The Lyriq experience is likely the same. I don't believe GM is fully committed to the Ultium platform.

In addition to PAAK our truck is supposed to have the Surround Vision Recorder mentioned in the manual. We don't even have the Apple Music app yet even though I had our dealer update all the modules. The '27s will be out soon and I have no hopes our truck will ever get the features we paid for or the OTA updates GM bragged about.

Personally, I would steer clear of the Lyric unless you can get 30k off MSRP.

Rivian gave me a Silverado EV rental while my R1S was in the shop. I LOVED the range and space. That is where my compliments end lol my experience is as you described. Small things started to drive me nuts. The biggest being GMs insistent on having their vehicles beep at you endlessly if you have the gall to leave a door open. OMFG the PTSD I have from that.

Even without a start button since Lyriqs got rid of it this year, every video I seen of it still has the beeping. What a choice.

Yup, with this reminder, I can cross out the Lyriq. I liked a lot of what GM has done and they have some good ideas, but I do agree that the Ultium Platform was more of them testing the EV market rather than a full on attempt. Given the silence of anything new upcoming for it (that I'm aware of), I do think this is as good as its going to get for the time being.

If they were smart, they would have brought smaller trucks to market and SUV equivalents in the same platforms and updated them overtime with better charging and tech. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.

I also really like the way the Hummer EV looks. It is way too big for me though. I'd be all over a smaller version, specially if they can keep the 800V architecture and keep that battery size under control.

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[hammick]

Rivian gave me a Silverado EV rental while my R1S was in the shop. I LOVED the range and space. That is where my compliments end lol my experience is as you described. Small things started to drive me nuts. The biggest being GMs insistent on having their vehicles beep at you endlessly if you have the gall to leave a door open. OMFG the PTSD I have from that.

Yeah if I'm making repeated trips to get stuff out of the truck with a door open the blind spot monitors go crazy beeping. I think the summer interns wrote the software for the Ultium platform And I think the culture at GM is way too conservative and hierarchy based to ever give us pet mode or camp mode. Such a shame as the interface is very fast unlike the Lightning.

Just so I don't come across as a complete whiny biotch I'll close with something positive. The HUD is great.

 

[Great Gatsby]

Yeah if I'm making repeated trips to get stuff out of the truck with a door open the blind spot monitors go crazy beeping. I think the summer interns wrote the software for the Ultium platform And I think the culture at GM is way too conservative and hierarchy based to ever give us pet mode or camp mode. Such a shame as the interface is very fast unlike the Lightning.

Just so I don't across as a whiny biotch the HUD is great.

Agreed. You could tell some people at GM were really trying to make the best products they can but were stifled and likely only having an uphill battle as executives try to blast EVs and blame them for the company shortcomings.

I really like the look of the Lyriq and part of what got me looking again was the niceties that remain absent from Rivian like HUD and massaging seats as well as real nappa leather. Cadillac knows how to make greats cars. The EV side of things is what desperately needs to catch up. The squandered potential over there is unreal.

 

[Count Orlok]

The flatbed driver who towed The Count's R1S to the Chicago service center last year said his wife loved hers.

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