The picture above is the important thing fob for a 2023 Cadillac Escalade. GM Authority has photos of what it says is a key fob for the Cadillac Celestiq, the hand-assembled battery-electric sedan Cadillac says “Establishes a new standard of automotive luxury” that begins at $340,000. The Celestiq key fob seems identical to Escalade fob above, with two modifications: there is a seventh button on the entrance, and a coloured part on the again across the Cadillac crest.
Ranging from the highest, the lock and unlock buttons are the identical. On the Escalade fob, the second row is the distant begin button known as the “looping arrow,” and a button to open the tailgate remotely. On the Celestiq fob, this row is a button to open the frunk and a button to open the trunk. In the course of these 4 buttons, there is a round button with the distant begin looping arrow. The underside row on the Escalade fob is a button to open the tailgate glass remotely, and the crimson button that prompts the alarm. On the Celestiq fob, the left button opens the motive force’s aspect door remotely, the suitable button is identical alarm command.
Within the GMA photos, the place the again of the Escalade fob is obvious black plastic, the Celestiq fob is painted to match the colour of the sedan. The photographed fob is splashed with Habanero, the identical coloration because the Celestiq that American tennis participant and Cadillac model ambassador Frances Tiafoe posed with across the time of the U.S. Open this 12 months.
Assuming GMA‘s pics are the ultimate model of the Celestiq’s key fob, we’ll admit we’re shocked and we expect it is a missed alternative. A clearly sculpted and Celestiq-shaped key fob, akin to what Porsche does with a few of its vehicles, would have been most cool. Nevertheless, this is not that massive a deal. The super-luxe makers have solely not too long ago improved their key video games; Rolls-Royce keys regarded like BMW keys for too lengthy, outdated Bentley keys weren’t unhealthy however weren’t particular, Lamborghini keys regarded like Audi keys. Ferrari has arguably had the splashiest and most on-brand keys, though the Purosangue fob could be very shiny and really fairly however seems like a present store keychain or Zippo lighter. Fobs for the battery-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre and a contemporary Bentley make it clear that a bit of little bit of gloss black and the identical splash of coloration for the Celestiq fob would get the Cadillac proper. Nicely, proper sufficient.
We dig every thing we have seen of the Celestiq thus far, and anticipate finding out from the motive force’s seat what the most important Cadillac occasion in many years is all about. May get a elaborate sleeve for the fob, although.
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