{"id":34169,"date":"2022-10-20T10:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34169"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:55:06","slug":"cadillac-celstiq-rolls-royce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34169","title":{"rendered":"Can the Cadillac Celestiq Really Take on Rolls-Royce and Bentley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac finally unveiled the production-ready Celestiq, a $300,000 concept car come to life. Cars like the Celestiq<\/a> are why we\u2019re car enthusiasts. They take interesting ideas and actually put them on the road. You may not love the Celestiq\u2019s styling (I certainly don\u2019t love every angle) but it\u2019s hard to not love the fact that it exists as it is. However, it does come with some questions, such as whether it can truly take on Rolls-Royce and Bentley.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get straight to brass tax. The Cadillac Celestiq is going to cost around $300,000. That\u2019s an extraordinary amount of money, especially for a Cadillac. As car enthusiasts, we have to question whether such a car is worth the money and whether Cadillac can provide a $300,000 experience, from top to bottom. Will the buying experience be as premium as with other cars in that price bracket or will customers go down to their local GM dealership and find one sitting next to a Yukon Denali and a Chevy Malibu?<\/p>\n

Of course, the answer is that it doesn\u2019t matter in reality. Rich people buy dumb expensive stuff all the time, regardless of actual value. So Cadillac will likely sell every Celestiq it makes. But it\u2019s our job to look at it, objectively, and determine whether it seems on par with cars from Rolls, Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, and even Mercedes-Maybach.<\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s talk its design. This is how you do a flagship luxury car. Pay attention BMW because Cadillac brought the world a concept car come to life and you brought us the XM, the answer to a question no one asked. There\u2019s a difference. From some angles, the Celestiq is breathtakingly beautiful. From others, it\u2019s kind of frumpy and weird. However, I love that something so unique exists and that Cadillac took chances in a good way. There\u2019s a lot to look at and take in, question, and ponder. It grows on you. The XM just punches you in the face and tells you to deal with it.<\/p>\n

From the outside, I\u2019ll go as far a to say that, despite not loving it wholly, I think the Cadillac Celestiq is a $300,000 design. It\u2019s far more interesting than any Rolls-Royce or Bentley and it\u2019s better looking than most of them, too.<\/p>\n

Inside, though, I am a bit apprehensive. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it looks really cool inside. There\u2019s enough ambient lighting inside to spot it from space, the materials all seem lovely, and it features a ton of tech but it\u2019s not too in your face. I\u2019m no design major but it also seems to have a retro-futuristic design, as if it was a 1930s interior car designer\u2019s vision of the future. And I like that.<\/p>\n

However, does it really scream Rolls or Bentley-beater? I\u2019m not so sure. Mercedes S-Class-beater? Definitely in the conversation. But it\u2019s going to take actually sitting inside of it, touching the materials and feeling the ambience, to determine whether it can truly take on the best in the world. I do like the \u201cHand Built Detroit\u201d badge, though.<\/p>\n

Under that very pretty skin is a 111 kWh battery pack that powers two electric motors to make 600 horsepower and 640 lb-ft of torque. Cadillac claims a 0-60 mph time of 3.8 seconds and a range of around 300 miles. That\u2019s about on par with the Rolls-Royce Spectre<\/a>, even better in some ways. However, and this includes cars like the Spectre, it\u2019s quite amazing how far legacy automakers are behind Lucid and Tesla. The Lucid Air uses a similarly sized battery, makes almost double the power in its top-end Sapphire spec, and gets hundreds of miles more range. So, powertrain-wise, I think the Cadillac has a ways to go to earn that price tag.<\/p>\n

That being said, a car like the Celestiq isn\u2019t designed for brutal performance or handling. It\u2019s designed to be incredible to look at and wonderful to be in. While it\u2019s impossible to judge the latter, as we haven\u2019t driven it yet, I think the Americans nailed the former. So can the Cadillac Celestiq really take on Rolls and Bentley? Just based on its design, I think it has a real chance. This is how you do flagship luxury designs, BMW. Take notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cadillac finally unveiled the production-ready Celestiq, a $300,000 concept car come to life. Cars like the Celestiq are why we\u2019re car enthusiasts. They take interesting ideas and actually put them on the road. You may not love the Celestiq\u2019s styling (I certainly don\u2019t love every angle) but it\u2019s hard to not love the fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}