The interior Cadillac Optiq is weird. That’s a good thing
I have to admit that I didn’t like Cadillac Optiq very much when it first discussed it, or even up, I got at one time. It is not that General Motors does not produce good electric vehicles; Nowadays it is very and has sales numbers that support it.
Instead, it’s just that the “new medium -sized electric luxury crossover” excites me as the release of another superhero movie. Most of them are fine. Several of them are abysmal. But overall they are all we were before.
But sometimes something new surprises you. And please tell me that Optiq did not do that – he planted with his refreshing original cabin.
Look at it! It’s blue! In fact, aggressively blue. And this is just part of the story: the Optiq cab is a girl with a charming assortment of various textures, materials, touch points and color accents.
The interior scheme of my Optiq test is called Sky Cool Gray with Santorini Blue accents, zero cargo from the basic car (called luxury 1) All-Black Cabin. But that’s not all: upgrading to nicer trips Luxury 2 or Sport 2 and you can double with leather seats of the Phantom Blue Trim Navy, dashboard and door accents.
Reader: If you buy an Optiq, resist the temptation to get tan or black skin. Cadillac does not do bad interiors (not anymore), so I’m sure they are very nice. But in your life dereves some spices. Be courageous. Be interesting. Get one of the blue interiors. One day you will be dead, like all of us, and the chance to drive something interesting – and a little strange – should not walk in a limited time on Earth.
Let me take that I mean “strange” most beautiful way. The world Ev needs a weird. Everyone, because the company is trying to figure out the electrified future of the software, so desperately that they do not create in other ways of risk.
Ethos for the majority of EV we test is generally “making more screens”, in itself a derivative “Being more like Tesla, primary for reasons of costs”. Certainly there are reasons why this happens. However, they are not always good for consumers, nor are they so unforgettable. It is also difficult to define the brand by being just like other brands.
Optiq itself is definitely a screen forward. It has a 33 -inch LED display with something called 9K resolution. The software set will be known to anyone who managed another GM ev. But neon blue accents? Now we’re talking.
Cropping the dashboard, storage space under the center console, door cards and other pieces actually serve to spice up this cab. Interesting touches exceed the cabin; One of the ubiquitous materials is the “patterned production of accent”, which emerges from 100% recycling of polyester yarn and is also stretched over doors and dash.
And then there are the center consoles. This chrome -decorated rotary dial button looks almost like some interior piece of Cadillac of your grandfather, back in the tail era. I do not know how to describe it otherwise, but it has this old vibration that visits a modern electric car well.
The whole Santorini Blue package is just fun. This reminds me of avant -garde things that have made French automatic use than the application for modern technology and ownership of businesses has made much boring. It is also deep in Cadillac DNA, because company cars offer wild blue and red interiors. The blue interiors of Optiq – both really – seem to be as if GM had the interior designers enjoy their work and this energy is evident all the time.
It is definitely a nice antidote to minimalism EV -focused screen. The way is all I can take a little. It is time to bring some maxism to this field for change.
We need more similar things. More carbon fibers and recycled materials such as BMW i3. Borier things like the Genesis GV60 crystal ball. Damn, half of the cars we saw this year in China were purple. Life does not have to be just an endless sea of gray.
Contact the author: patrick.george@insideevs.com
Source: Patrick George
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