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 will be arriving here in one Sport trim, $80,000 before on-road costs and with an electric powertrain of 224kW/480Nm dual-motor all-wheel drive.
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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Optiq Sport
It’s essentially one full-loaded trim, with standard equipment such as a 19-speaker AKG Studio Audio System with Dolby Atmos, – pictured above 1 power sunshade, automatic parking assist and eight-way power-adjustable front seats heated, ventilated, massaged memory and four-ways lumbar adjustment.
It has a 33-inch curved display like the Vistiq (and the Lyriq) with its digital instrument cluster and infotainment touchscreen, which is also equipped with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – something US-market Optiqs and ViSTIq are not on offer.
The Vistiq is 5. The six-seat configuration is a second-row captain’s chairs with the launch of this new SUV, which has been launched here exclusively in top-spec Platinum trim and features twom-long three-ROW SUVs.
The Vistiq Platinum is a 459kW/880Nm dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain with 461km of WLTP from 91kWh NMC battery, which costs $116,000 before on-road costs.
This battery is smaller than the 102kWh unit used in the US-market Vistiq and even the Australian-marketed Lyriq, and DC charge rate drops from 190kW to 130kW.
Despite its lavishly equipped interior, it’s also fitted with adaptive air suspension and an individual fixed-glass panel over the third row of AKG sound system (a 23–speaker AKU), four-zone climate control, night vision; eight-way power front seats with heating, ventilation or massage as well as 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.
Vistiq Platinum
The Optiq, Vistiq and Lyriq all share General Motors’ BEV3 dedicated electric vehicle (EV) platform.
With the Optiq and Vistiq launch, Cadillac will have more models in Australia than it has dealerships; for example, the luxury brand opened only one Experience Centre (in Sydney – now with its own experience centre) at this point. The company also has hosted pop-ups in Melbourne under the name of .
The Lyriq has not been forgotten, with current model year 2025 (MY25) examples now priced at $95,000 drive-away until March 3, 2026.
Later in 2026, a hot V-Series version of the Lyriq is due; Cadillac has previously eliminated its smaller model (Optiq-V) for our market with fewer variants.
GM Specialty Vehicles – which sells Chevrolet and GMC vehicles through traditional dealerships, but does not report its sales numbers in Australia’s monthly VFACTS reports that Cadillac doesn’t publish its figures.
Hence, we don’t know how many Cadillacs have been delivered in Australia since customer deliveries started early in 2025; the brand has previously declined to sell sales targets and said it was selling its cars in ‘exclusive volumes’.
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