Let’s face it, GM already has most of the pickup market covered. Chevy for the everyman, GMC for those who like to remind their neighbors they’re a little better off, and the Hummer EV for people who enjoy vaporizing their wallets, and maybe the planet, too, considering the thing weighs as much as a small moon.

But what if GM decided to go all-in on absurdity and create a Cadillac pickup, a luxury flagship so over-the-top opulent it’d make a Rivian R1T and a Tesla Cybertruck look like something you’d pick up at the Hertz counter? Well, thanks to some overly ambitious renderings, we now have a glimpse of what such an exercise in unnecessary excess could look like.

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This digital fever dream comes courtesy of Kelsonik, a talented render artist who decided to take GM’s GMC Sierra EV and dip it in a vat of Cadillac styling cues. GM’s flagship brand has been out of the pickup game for quite some time but isn’t unfamiliar with building high-end trucks, having previously offered a pickup version of the Escalade known as the EXT.

Rather than grafting the current Escalade’s face onto the Sierra EV, this design borrows from the all-electric Lyriq instead. Since the Sierra EV’s front fascia is significantly larger than the Lyriq’s, the Cadillac elements had to be stretched, meaning the grille and those vertical LED daytime running lights now tower like skyscrapers. Strangely enough, it works. The whole look suits the bulk and shape of a pickup surprisingly well.

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Few other changes have been made to the Sierra EV’s base design, though the Caddy’s wheels are a little larger and, mercifully, it ditches those ugly orange reflectors on the fenders (seriously, who signed off on those at GM?).

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Perhaps the closest thing to a modern-day Cadillac pickup we’ve seen was brought to life by a customization shop in Miami three years ago. Doms Garage Miami started with a regular Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and then proceeded to graft on the front fascia of an Escalade. Remarkably, the finished result looked excellent.

So, what do you think? Should GM dive back into the luxury pickup market and give us the Cadillac truck we never asked for but now kind of want? Or is this best left as a render-fueled fantasy? Let us know how you’d design your dream luxury truck or if this idea belongs in the automotive hall of “what could’ve been.” Either way, we’re listening.

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We’re constantly hearing about an EV downturn and how automakers are changing their electrification strategies because consumers aren’t consuming. And sure, sales of electric cars are down in countries like Germany, but in the US people are still buying EVs, and they’re buying more of them than they did 12 months ago.

EV registrations climbed 5 percent in October versus the same month in 2023, topping out at 101,403, according to data from S&P Global Mobility. And it wasn’t Tesla driving that growth, but legacy automakers.

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Chevrolet’s EV sales jumped 38 percent to 6,741 helped by demand for the Blazer and Equinox, while Cadillac Lyriq registrations grew threefold to 2,489 and the Hummer shifted 1,015 electric trucks, four times as many as it did last October. 

Like the Equinox, Honda’s Prologue, which is built on the same GM platform and in the same Mexican GM plant, wasn’t available in 2023, but made its presence felt this year. It found 4,168 homes, only 12 fewer than Chevy did of its version. Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 facelift also gave its sales numbers the desired nip and tuck, boosting registrations from 3,555 to 4,485.

Although the overall number of EV sales is up, the rate of growth has slowed and some models registered fewer deliveries than previously. The Ford Mustang Mach-E, for instance, was down from 3,949 to 3,479 according to S&P Global Mobility’s spreadsheet and Rivian R1S sales dropped by more than 500 to 2,456. There are also fears that the EV segment relies heavily on tax credit availability to boost demand, and public interest could wane if Trump pulls the plug on the incentives when he takes office.

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Tesla’s registration numbers actually fell by 1.8 percent, and if you remove Tesla from the equation, EV sales increased not by 5 percent, but by 11 percent. And this isn’t a blip for Tesla: the automaker’s numbers have fallen in seven of the first 10 months of 2024, Auto News reports, and that’s despite the facelifted Model 3 and Cybertruck being new for this year. While the Model 3 gained ground, the Model Y fell back, sales tumbling from more than 25,000 to under 22,000.

But before anyone gets the idea that Tesla is falling behind in the EV race, we should make clear that it still outperformed the second best-selling brand’s EV models six times over. Or every single brand in the 2nd to 12th spots combined.

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Cadillac’s Lyriq is getting a high-performance Lyriq-V spinoff for the 2026 model year. GM’s fanciest brand confirmed today that the SUV would be the first Cadillac EV to get a hot variant, and says it will debut early next year.

The announcement offered nothing in the way of spec details, but two images and a short teaser video drop a few clues about what the BMW iX M60 rival will offer. Although the exterior makeover is subtle, the Lyriq V looks tangibly meaner than the stock EV thanks to its more aggressive bumpers and color-coded bodykit.

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Brembo brake calipers are visible behind fat multispoke alloy wheels and the body looks noticeably closer to the ground in V form. And just in case those cues aren’t obvious enough, there are V badges on the nose and tail and one at the base of each rear door.

A driver in the video can be seen pressing a V button on the Lyriq‘s steering wheel to engage a performance driving mode, and although we don’t know what that does to the power and handling, Cadillac does promise every electric V will offer “exceptional performance, competitive range, and standard all-wheel drive.”

All-wheel drive versions of the regular Lyriq come with 500 hp (507 PS / 373 kW) and 450 lb-ft (610 Nm) of torque, but we can expect the V model to deliver far more of both. Chevy’s Blazer EV, which uses the same GM Ultium platform as the Lyriq, already offers 595 hp (603 PS / 444 kW) in SS trim.

The 2026 Lyriq-V doesn’t only have its sights set on stealing sales from the likes of BMW, Tesla, and Audi in the US, but right across the globe. Cadillac says it will build the SUV in both left- and right-hand drive and sell it initially in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, with availability in other markets coming later in 2025.

The Cadillac Lyriq’s electric drivetrain and sharp styling haven’t only won it new fans in America – it’s also earned the SUV a chance of victory in the prestigious German Car Of The Year (GCOTY) competition.

Forty judges assessing entries for GCOTY 2025 named the Lyriq the best luxury vehicle over €70,000 ($76,000), making it the only US car to be in with a shot at the overall title. The result will be announced on November 13 when the 2024 winner, VW’s ID.7 electric sedan will have to vacate its throne.

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But the Lyriq has its work cut out if it’s to take the outright win. The victors in the other four categories are the Citroen e-C3/C3, which took best compact vehicle under €35k ($38k), the BMW 5-Series/i5 which was awarded best premium car under €70k, the Audi Q6/SQ6 e-tron, GCOTY’s best new energy vehicle, and the Porsche 911 GTS T-Hybrid, which scooped best performance car.

You might have noticed that each one of those cars bar the Lyriq hails from Europe, and three are German. And maybe you’re not surprised by that, assuming that proud Germans might favor their own industry. But a glance at the list of previous winners shows that the judges are open-minded when it comes to new cars.

Though the ID.7 won in 2024, the MG3, Kia EV9, and Hyundai Ioniq 6 were victorious in the compact, luxury, and new energy categories, and the Genesis GV60, Range Rover, and Ferrari 296 won rounds in 2023, the year the VW ID.Buzz took home gold. The two overall winners in 2022 and 2021 were both from the Far East: Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 and Honda’s E.

The Lyric was shortlisted for the utility category in the 2023 North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) competition alongside the Genesis GV60 and Kia EV6 but lost out to the Kia in the final reckoning.