Cadillac unveiled the CELESTIQ show car, a vision of innovation and purpose that previews the brand’s future handcrafted and all-electric flagship sedan.
Conceived to lead Cadillac’s electric future and inspired by the brand’s 120-year heritage, it serves as a touchstone for the Cadillac design and engineering teams, who continue to develop CELESTIQ as it moves closer to production.
Here’s a video, which Cadillac has just uploaded at their official YouTube channel. If you wonder why is it important, well, because it actually depicts a new concept vehicle, which will be unveiled on Thursday during Monterey Car Week. More importantly, it will also feature innovations, which will be used in a future production vehicle. Cadillac didn’t announce actually, that the debuting concept will be a brand new model, but actually disclosed that it will be equipped with innovative technology “prominent in the latest home electronics,” and that this technology will be featured in an upcoming vehicle.
To go into details, I’m talking about the range of curved OLED screens, which has been developed in collaboration with LG Electronics. This is a little bit sad, because customers do need a Cadillac concept, which eventually would become a production model. But, let’s wait.
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Besides the teaser video and the cited information, the company did not release any other details. The video is previewing a digitalized picture of an elegant wooden dashboard with very simple design. As you can see, there aren’t a lot of buttons or knobs. This is because of the integration of the LG OLED screens, which serve as a substitution of the original controls.
By the end of the video we witness an ongoing 3D navigation, which by the way looks fantastic, but puts in question how will Cadillac implement it, and would it look that nice. By the way, you can watch the reveal of the new concept at Cadillac’s official Facebook, Facebook.com/Cadillac, at 10:45 p.m. EST/7:45 p.m. PST on Thursday, August 18.
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Cadillac Ciel Concept was also introduced at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The staggering vehicle is inspired by Highway 1 in California.
Ciel Concept is powered by a twin-turbo 3.6 liter V6 with 431PS (317 kW) and 583Nm (430 lb-ft) of torque. The engine is coupled to a hybrid transmission powering an all-wheel-drive system.
The vehicle also features:
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Cadillac announced its plans to unveil a new concept vehicle at the forthcoming North American International Auto Show 2010 in Detroit. (more…)