2026 Cadillac Celestiq huge price increase!
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Just when you thought a Cadillac couldn’t be more expensive, GM, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to increase the price of the $340,000 Celestiq. By over $60,000!
That means the top-of-the-line model will now start at over $410,000! For those of us who were wondering who in their right mind would spend $340,000 on a Cadillac, this is even more baffling.
GM doesn’t really care since it seems they’ve only produced around 25 units in 2025. 20, 30, 25, or even 15, who cares? Numbers like these don’t really make a difference. You just want a handful of famous oddballs to show off the car here and there at movie premieres or paparazzi gatherings. The car is also very showy. Which is the opposite of the amazing Rolls-Royce Spectre EV. A paragon of good taste next to the Celestiq.
Of course, building so few cars will keep used prices high. For a while. I’m afraid this will be seen as a weirdo experiment from GM in just a few years. After building 50 or 100, the Celestiq will be quietly canceled. While Rolls-Royce and Bentley will add more EVs to their lineup, and still sell more and more cars.
The first time I was shocked by Cadillac‘s crazy pricing was many years ago with eh ELR. Which was basically a Chevrolet Bolt for twice the price. At least it had a great design and interior that was very different from the Bolt. But it was priced almost as high as a Tesla Model S at the time. The Cadillac was just a Hybrid with about 30 miles of EV range. A very good car, no doubt, but GM just killed it as soon as it came out by asking $76,000 for it.
It all seems the Celestiq should have been priced at least half what they are currently charging. Instead, the GM pushed the brand into a territory it doesn’t belong to.
Let’s just hope another sedan is still in the works. One that many of us could actually put on our shopping list. One day…
Vince, you are constantly bad mouthing the Celestiq, but you simply don’t understand how expensive bespoke design is. There’s a reason it is priced like an RR, because both can be kitted out any which way the customer wants. The entire run of these cars (as well as most RRs and Bentleys) are 1 of 1 vehicles, and that costs a lot of money. Even if they CUT the price by $60k, would it be any more within regular people’s budget? No, of course not because that’s decent-house money. Personally, I really dig this car. Shows that Cadillac can still think big. In its heyday of the 50s and 60s, price was no object for them, and it’s nice to see them aim to be the standard of the world again. They definitely need at least one more bespoke car in the $200-300k range to pad out their portfolio.
Vince – I agree with the comments posted here by SEH. I think you’re missing the point. GM doesn’t care how many (or how few) Celestiq’s get sold. The whole point of it is to show the world what Cadillac is capable of. And I believe they are succeeding.
The Cadillac ELR “was basically a Chevrolet Bolt for twice the price.” You’re joking, right? The ELR was definitely NOT a Chevy Bolt. Just because they used similar EV technology doesn’t make them anywhere near the same vehicle. The application was completely different. And so was the entire configuration of the car.
None of this is a good reason or excuse for a $60,000 price increase.