The Lyriq has been looking lonely in the local showrooms of American luxury brand Cadillac, but it’s about to get some company.
Two more electric SUVs – the mid-size Optiq and the full-size, three-row Vistiq – are being launched soon, with sales to begin “shortly” following the confirmation of pricing.
The Optiq is arriving here in a single Sport trim, priced at $80,000 before on-road costs and featuring a 224kW/480Nm dual-motor all-wheel drive electric powertrain.
The Audi Q6 e-tron and Polestar 4 rival offers 425km of WLTP range from a 75kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery that can be charged on DC power at up to 110kW – down from 150kW in US-market models, which use a larger 85kWh pack.
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It’s available in essentially one fully loaded trim, with standard equipment including a 19-speaker AKG Studio Audio System with Dolby Atmos, a panoramic glass roof with a power sunshade, automatic parking assist, and eight-way power-adjustable front seats with heating, ventilation, massage, memory and four-way lumbar adjustment.
Like the Vistiq (and the Lyriq), it features a 33-inch curved display incorporating the digital instrument cluster and infotainment touchscreen, the latter with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – something US-market Optiqs and Vistiqs miss out on.
The Vistiq is a 5.2m-long three-row SUV, which is being launched here exclusively in top-spec Platinum trim with a six-seat configuration featuring second-row captain’s chairs.
Priced at $116,000 before on-road costs, the Vistiq Platinum features a 459kW/880Nm dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain with 461km of WLTP range from a 91kWh NMC battery.
This battery is smaller than the 102kWh unit used in the US-market Vistiq and even the Australian-market Lyriq, and the DC charge rate drops from 190kW to 130kW.
It’s lavishly equipped, though, with adaptive air suspension, a panoramic sunroof and a separate fixed-glass panel over the third row, a 23-speaker AKG sound system, four-zone climate control, night vision, and eight-way power front seats with heating, ventilation, massage, memory and four-way lumbar.
Despite being offered here only in top-spec Platinum guise – with Australia missing out on the more affordable Luxury, Sport and Premium Luxury trims offered in the US – the Vistiq still undercuts the before on-roads prices of the Hyundai Ioniq 9 and Kia EV9 GT-Line.
The Optiq, Vistiq and Lyriq all share General Motors’ BEV3 dedicated electric vehicle (EV) platform.
The launch of the Optiq and Vistiq means Cadillac will have more models in Australia than it has dealerships, with the luxury brand having only opened one Experience Centre – in Sydney – for now. The brand has also opened pop-ups in Melbourne.
The Lyriq hasn’t been forgotten, with existing model year 2025 (MY25) examples now priced at $95,000 drive-away until March 3, 2026.
A hot V-Series version of the Lyriq is due later in 2026, though Cadillac has previously ruled out the smaller Optiq-V for our market.
Cadillac doesn’t publish its sales figures in monthly VFACTS reports in Australia, despite GM Specialty Vehicles – which sells Chevrolet and GMC vehicles through traditional dealerships – reporting its sales numbers.
Thus, we don’t know how many Cadillacs have been delivered in Australia since customer deliveries began early in 2025, though the brand has previously declined to share sales targets and has instead spoken of selling its vehicles in “exclusive volumes”.
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