The caddy was an excellent choice compared to Tesla's jagged piece of metal. It was nice to see what real engineering looks like. You timed the market perfectly. That is an excellent video and an excellent buy.
Just Got a '24 Cadillac LYRIQ AWD Burgundy White seats $45,772 w/ 6881miles I knew by waiting all year I could do better than $60 -80k Now I'll use my savings to get an electrician to install my Level 2 charger in my garage
As someone that works on them. The 2023 have updates to the software. The center console is a know issue that was fixed in later models and the dealer will fix it in short time.
Time and time again these manufacturers let these cars go to production with known issues. Engineers on the front end of the business don't care about the money spent on the back end in service/warranty costs. Engineers only care about meeting production schedules.
How does poor glue make it past the quality control people? Are there any quality control people? Doesn't seem like it with new(er) cars. Maybe the cost of 4 bolts would have been a better idea?
@@jusdsun8319sadly, the issue is that we generally want to care, but having timing pushed up and constant pushes for cost-cutting efforts makes it really hard to do anything about it. Trust me, I guarantee the engineers brought up the likelihood of warranty issues. But it was hand-waved away because it's cheaper up front, and the program manager gets rewarded for that now, and will have moved on to another role by the time those warranty costs become an issue for the next newly promoted sap taking their place.
@@cliffvictoria3863That’s GM in a nutshell. Btw, EV’s arn’t the future and far from sustainable of course. The fact is that if we gonna electrify everything, we have to mine more copper in the coming years than the amount we mined totally from the first time we began with it till this day! That already says enough about the unattainable utopian net-zero insanity and stupidity from our governments and policymakers.. The clown world we live in these days.. it’s f*cking insane! Goddayumn! 😒
The problem with all the driver assist stuff is that it still expects the driver to take over at fraction of a second notice when it screws up, the bad news is that the more driver assist you have the drive pays way less attention to the road.... A recipe for disaster.
Absolutely agree. I just cannot see true autonomous driving happening before there's a slew of lawsuits for "corner cases." A "corner case" is that one-in-a-million situation that the programmers didn't plan for, so instead of running over the five nuns crossing the street, it veers over and hits "only" one baby carriage. Seems like a lot of nightmare lawsuits will happen for them before they get it to be better than a human driver. Heck, even when it is, people will still sue them because of what they consider poor choices for who they run over or what they run into.
@@CruedEP exactly.. people are commenting with no experience. unless you have it, and use it. you'll never understand how the system actually works and be able to provide a valid comment on its use and safety.
Used pianos are often very inexpensive because the cost to move, set up and re-tune is more than the value of the piano. That’s why you are so many free pianos on CL or Marketplace.
@@bryancohn9406 Yeah to be fair unless it's some antique hand crafted master piece most Piano's are fairly cheap because the demand is so low. They take up a lot of space and honestly as some one who played music for years they don't sound that much better than a keyboard unless you get into the really high end stuff. Given most people live in small homes or apartments, having a Piano is basically dedicating an entire room just to it.
I agree. A spare tire is such valuable insurance. 24/7 roadside assistance is great, but if you're not near a big city it can be a long wait. The spare tire shouldn't be sacrificed.
Honestly if I had to guess i would say only 10% who drive actually know how to properly change a flat tire with a spare, i always said that changing a spare tire should be mandatory in drivers ed instead of parallel parking
@@cytherians I used to work for a fleet management company and one year all of this one companies new fleet of Chevy Malibus all came with a pump/fix-a-flat setup vs a spare tire. I guess they had a few issues where sales reps cut a tire where the fix-a-flat would not work so we got a request to take all of the hundreds of Malibus already in service into dealerships to have a spare tire installed. They also changed all of their future orders to include a spare from the get go.
I am torn on this. A spare tire is good insurance. I know how to install them. That being said, though I have had spare tires in every car I have owned, I have only used a spare tire once in my driving history. And I grew up living on dirt roads. So, in 30 years of driving and half a million miles, I'm not sure I would pay extra for one. But, it all depends on how you maintain your vehicles and where you drive. If you run crap tires and don't replace them when they're worn out, you're going to need a spare. And if you don't maintain your vehicle, a spare isn't always going to save you.
Metric is indeed worse it only put a man on the moon… Every imperial measurement is in US law defined in metric… Why is a survey foot different from an international foot, British gallon different to US gallon a tonne not a ton and a pound not half a kilo(the correct pound) and on and on…
I think the Wizard is only in his forties, so maybe he won't be retiring soon. Or he's just talking about retiring from physical labor since his company and social media are bringing in enough revenue to allow him to retire early.
My third eldest sister did that (2007 GMC Acadia) she was happier than a pig in shit until it started giving her problems mind you 2007 was the first year of the first gen Acadia.
21:11 that putty is actually used for sound dampening. Think of having one hand on a drum head and hitting it verses not having your hand on it, muffles and quiets the vibrations. Lots of cars incorporate that on the undercarriage if you look.
Tesla uses the cabin camera for driver attentiveness, has done for some time now. There's even a strike system, where if you get so many within a certain time, you lose some functionality until strikes are cleared after a rolling 7 day period.
And you've now summed up why I'll never ever even talk to anyone about a Tesla. George Orwell would be extremely proud of the control a company like Tesla has over idiots that "buy" their crappy product. When you own something, but the company that made the product can still tell you how to behave in said product is the very definition of slavery IMHO. I swear the people that are devoted to Tesla really must love being told how to live their lives in 10,000 different ways. I'd offer up some political explanation, but it should be obvious what political party Tesla owners tend to gravitate towards.
@@pwoeckener lmfao holy sh*t you might actually be insane. Stop being ignorant and actually learn something for once instead of crying to someone in a comment section, talking about how all tesla owners are dumb, or that tesla controls everything. Just chill bro, treat people like actual people And do you mean tesla owners are incomprehensibly stupid maga followers, since elon is republican. or do you mean tesla owners are all democrat Because It could go either way based on what i read if you are a democrat though, just be normal please, you don’t have to close your mind and surround it in concrete
@@pwoeckener Did you or did you not just watch the video in which a Cadillac did the exact same thing -- monitor your attentiveness with cameras? It's not a Tesla thing. It's a "you're still responsible for your car even if it's driving itself" thing. And I think it was Kia that has, as a condition of buying their cars, reserved the right to collect literally everything about you up to and including genetic material and sexual habits? And don't get me started on the government. You are aware cops can pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt in any state, right? And many states don't let you wear headphones while driving? And you can't tint your car windows too much? Other people are very much in control of what you can do with your car. Again, Tesla has barely moved the needle here.
I’ve been driving for 48 years and have logged over a million miles. I never use cruise control and would HATE the self driving feature. I don’t want some robot tin can in control of where it is propelling my body. I want all control myself. Period.
7:23 Tyler had a Freudian slip moment Also Wizard breaking the plastic trim is as funny as him breaking the little tab on the air filter on the Cybertruck
The light in the back of GMCs is to open and close the hatch. However, you dont kick it. Just wave your foot past if you have your hands full and can't push the button.
Did to my son’s Mercedes. Had the wood trim and it was faded and starting to crack. We ordered some Faux carbon fiber wrap and covered all the wood. Really updated the interior and made it look newer!
The Lyric actually started production in March of 2022. Software development must have started two years prior to that. So GM has had over 4 years of software development to get this vehicle sorted out. Per the comments on the Lyric forum and Hoovie's experience as well, they still can't get it right.
@@redwolfexr our 2011 Lexus RX350 has never been in the shop but anything other than wear and tear maintenance. Our 2016 Cadillac XTS has had transmission, about ready for another, infotainment crashes every 18 months, exhaust leaks, pump issues, etc. It’s simply American incompetence to build anything with pride in precision engineering and quality but only for profit. Screw GM.
Cadillac doesnt make good cars. They make cars that are quiet for 20k miles, then something goes wrong and it spends 2 months in the shop requiring sound isolation and deadening to get removed to fix shit, and the warranty doesnt cover sounds deadening.
I think he has a gas van for road-trips. He is probably using this for local and the massive savings 30 miles for 10kw of power probably .90 or a dollar in Kansas
GM can access the Supercharger network, now (or, very soon). No idea what watts this vehicle can pull from the charger but at least the tesla network is pretty well established.
@@TheJohn8765I just did a 1500 mile trip in a Lyriq. Didn't even have to stop at Superchargers and it was pretty easy. Quick 25 minute stop every 3 hours of driving or so was pretty much what I do anyways on road trips, so really NBD.
Still.. EV’s arn’t the future and far from sustainable of course. The fact is that if we gonna electrify everything, we have to mine more copper in the coming years than the amount we mined totally from the first time we began with it till this day! That already says enough about the unattainable utopian net-zero insanity and stupidity from our governments and policymakers.. The clown world we live in these days.. it’s f*cking insane! Goddayumn! 😒
they must think we're all fools. if they're going to deliver cars that don't work properly, then at best I'd buy the cheapest car they sell. Who would pay extra for a luxury brand vehicle that arrives broken and goes downhill from there?
In the old days they didn't have computers powerful enough to analyse failure rates of parts with a lot of precision, so they took big margins of errors and made solid parts that didn't break. Now they can design a part to last just enough for warranty, so they can optimise their profits. If you want quality buy Toyota, GM products should be leased.
America has two salvatory things others don't: 1. a uniform language that happens to be the lingua franca of the world as well, and 2. SPACE. There is soo muuuch spaaaace everywhere, it is difficult to see that without getting jealous.
I am not sure how you can say America has two things others don't have when the first of those two is the English language (my home language, you are welcome) that you correctly describe as the world's lingua franca! So is the English language unique to America or not?? :)
@@PauloG100 I speak both English and American. That's a joke, we speak similar languages for sure but American's changed a lot of English to suit themselves.
Every time I look at a GM product and think that maybe, just maybe, their quality issues have been resolved, I am quickly reminded that they are still put together with spit. Had a similar experience with a rental Cadillac around 2012. It never ends. Flashbacks to my dad's brand new Seville simply falling apart all on its own to the point that he was afraid of driving it for fear of what would fall off the car next.
My first car was an early 2000s used Seville. There was a new problem every week. Thankfully, Obama gave us that clunkers program when the engine finally started to go for good.
One thing you can do to make the Lyriq's system more stable is to not use Apple Car Play or Android Auto wirelessly. Plug it into the USB port, and it works *SO* much better!
@@farmergeddon 😂 No, but wireless Apple Car Play and Android Auto are both horribly unreliable. And it doesn't matter what car, either. I've seen issues in literally every car that implements that feature. It's just not ready for prime-time yet. Plug it in to make your life a lot easier.
Tesla does have that system. My 2020 model 3 knows when you pick up your phone or look away. There's a tiny camera above the rear view mirror that pays attention to your level of attention to the road while autopilot is engaged!
Tesla does actually have cameras that check if you look at the road, and gives you warnings if you dont. If the behaviour repeats it turns off autopilot until next drive, and with multiple repeats autopilot will be blocked for a week I think.
Also he was wrong about putting a weight on the steering wheel. Since people was actually doing that some years ago they changed so the force can't be constant. A human hand will not pull/push constant but a weight would.
@@thedopplereffect00 it's not bricking, it's holding the driver up for s while, because they're a total fuck up. Use as intended, or don't use it. Shouldn't the company have the freedom to decide how their products are supposed to work?
The front end of the Lyriq looks nice, but if it was hit by another vehicle going just a few miles per hour, it would appear that there would be a lot of damage and money involved. 😢😢
Thank you so much for this fantastic video! Selling your Tesla for the Cadillac Lyriq was an interesting choice, and I appreciate how detailed you were in explaining your decision. Your insights into the pros and cons of both vehicles, from performance to features, really gave me a comprehensive understanding of what the Lyriq has to offer. Your honest comparisons were incredibly helpful, and it’s clear you put a lot of thought and effort into creating this review. Looking forward to more of your content!
I'm 24 now, and honestly really wouldn't seek out a new vehicle with self driving or a boatload of safety tech just yet. I do however believe that the Lyriq was a good switch!!!
The glare from the chrome trim was something I noticed and couldn't stand about a GMC Acadia I rented one time. I can't believe they are still making this design mistake. The inset trim in the steering wheel is also obnoxious and uncomfortable to grip.
That light projects their logo onto the ground when you approach it at night. I rented a hybrid once. You will see it on their other brands as well. It comes on when the key is within range to operate.
Except those electric only car companies can be gone tomorrow. At least with my Nissan EV, even if they can't sell EV's I have a dealership to take mine to for service.
@@joecoolioness6399 Exactly. These EV companies don't have the resources to compete with the big manufacturers when they get going on these things. And even if they do they'll be done once people wake up and stop with the EV garbage.
FYI...Tesla DOES have a camera monitoring your eyes to make sure you are paying attention. It works quite well now. The nag of the steering wheel is a carry over from years ago and in FSD V12.4 goes away as long as the camera can see your eyes.
Adaptive and predictive cruise, lane departure warnings it's all great till it stops working. Every modern semi has these, including the visual eye detection for those long haulers.
Here in the UK most, if not all new cars, don't come with spare wheels. Its mainly to do with emission and fuel consumption figures. If the car weighs less then it uses less fuel etc etc which then produces less emissions which means it falls into a cheaper tax bracket so its more attractive to potential customers. Its also better for manufacturers as they don't have to supply spare wheels/jacks. The fact you're stuck at the side of the road with a puncture is our problem not theirs.
They claim it's for emissions and fuel economy. It's really a cost-cutting measure. No spare tire offered means they don't need to engineer a place to put it, nor do they need to pay to manufacture extra wheels or special space-saver spare tires. They can save a couple hundred bucks per car, and pass the savings on to the executives.
The last 2 cars we've had had "conventional" tyres rather than run flats, they did supply a can of gunk which thankfully we haven't had to use yet. And that raises another problem as once you've used the gunk then the tyre must be scrapped and can't be repaired. So instead of a simple cheap repair you're on the hook for a new tyre. My colleague needed a new tyre last week after hitting a pothole and the soonest the garage could get him booked in was 3 days later despite the fact they had the tyre in stock, its a company car so we are at the mercy of the lease company. It took them 2 days to get a rental car to him ! All for the sake of a stupid tyre ! Its maddening.
@@jbconno Cans of gunk are normally only suitable as a desperate Halfords purchase when your rental car gets a slow puncture before you return it. Your own car needs a proper spare wheel and tyres of decent aspect ratio so that the wheels don't crack when meeting potholes.
Tesla Full Self Driving does have all of that functionality, including eye-tracking, and also includes self driving on surface/city streets, and anywhere you choose to drive. They've done away with the steering wheel nag recently. Tesla FSD is available on the S, X, 3 and Y. FSD is not yet available on the Cybertruck, but slated to be soon. 😃
I just wanna start off by saying this is far from the dumbest automotive show on UA-cam. This is actually one of the most informative and interesting places to be on UA-cam Continue to be an icon
@djwilliams4714 would've been if they'd used actual facts over hate by brand. He said many wrong and bias based things. Tesla is the most American car built, the fsd is lightyears better than gm system requiring precise mapping meaning can't be any construction. The Teslas have eye monitoring now, the weights haven't worked for a long time, etc. Take outdated info and experience on a new release vehicle untested, then spew uninformed bias against the main vehicles of Tesla. Sorry but I hated Tesla for years, but I researched them this year and they are the most American car with good quality, lowest cost to own, and best most reliable tech. GM has massive work to catch up as Tesla sells 10x their nearest competitor, which is Ford. Tesla quality is improving by leaps already comparable to Toyota and using brand won't stand up. Now Chevys new ev truck, that is a homerun, good quality, excellent range, and perfect utility.
Do you know it’s funny we were actually back in like late 2022 cross shopping a lyric with a model Y performance we decided to go with the model Y performance because we owned a 2010 Cadillac SRX and it ended up getting lemon lawed because it was in the shop all the time for electrical issues. So we ended up going with the model Y performance and it’s still going good so far with 84,000 miles with so far no major issues
I just don't get the mindset. You got rid of the Cybertruck in part because you didn't want to "pay to be a beta tester." With EV's (and even newer ICE cars), you will ALWAYS be a "beta tester." The software is constantly being updated, and you're paying to test whether or not those updates work. It's complete insanity when you think about it. A software update could brick any part of the system. There's a chance it could be a critical component, and you won't find out about it until you need to use said component.
@@royale7620 If I'm a kid, you're a fetus. Now, listen up, fetus: Hoovie is beta testing the Caddy, just like he was beta testing the Cybertruck. The only difference is, Tesla has been doing the EV thing for awhile now, so you'd expect their software updates to come out fast, and be stable. On the flip side, Cadillac's EV's are new. While I'd buy a Caddy ICE car (made 2005 or so and before, mind you) all day, I wouldn't even waste a brain cell on the consideration of one of their EV's. Personally, fetus, I wouldn't buy any EV, period. I would only buy one if I were driving short distances every day, and I had a home where I could charge them (outside) at night. I have the short distance requirement, but not the home. Since I don't know if I want to stay in the country, let alone my current area, I'm just renting my property. That way, if I decide I want to leave the country, or move to a different state, I'm not anchored by a home I have to offload before I can do anything. Those are some "pro tips" from a kid, fetus. Take them to heart, or don't. I couldn't care less.
A receptionist where I used to work had a Cadillac. I do not recall exactly what model it was. When she was no longer driving it I asked her what happened to it. She said the thing had electrical issues in the dashboard. Glitches like that seem to be a thing with GM products. I cannot imagine owning one of these things where everything is electrical. Hoovie should start looking for a flat bed tow truck because he is going to need one.
5:30 I thought a spare tire was an important feature until I purchased a pre-owned 2010 Corolla with 125,000 miles a few months ago. The jack and spare have never been used (!). Tires are a lot better than they used to be. I continue to drive around with the equipment, but the extra weight is hard to fully justify imho.
@@heywhatsthatsmell Been a long time... decades since I had a sudden flat on my car. I have picked up plenty of screws or nails, notice it going flat, so I get it repaired. Knock on wood, so to speak.
I drive a Cadillac lyric, sometimes for work. And was wondering if anyone else’s had complete and total brake failure as I experienced in the Cadillac lyric. Luckily I was able to roll to a stop at a red light in the appropriate distance, and I didn’t hit anyone or anything.
Nice video - several clarifications... One pedal driving does not get better efficiency - Lyriq has a blended braking system - just a different way of driving the car. Software bugs were mentioned, but there have also been plenty of dead Lyriqs also due to 12V system issues. The center console lid falling apart is a known issue - TSB for dealer to re-glue.
@@jochenstacker7448 As mentioned, Lyriq has a blended braking system. When you use the regular brake pedal, the regen happens there also - doesn't use the friction brakes unless you panic stop. It will apply the friction brakes to hold the car when stopped, same as one-pedal does as you slow. Regen is occurring with the brake pedal application, throttle lift off, or with the paddle on the steering wheel. Just a different way of controlling the stopping of the car, no difference in efficiency for the same stopping rate - the amount of regen recapture is the same.
@@rsewill12 That is correct on the ELR, but not correct for the Lyriq. The last stopping is done with the friction brakes, and the friction brakes hold the car when stopped. On the ELR, the paddle will only slow the vehicle - but not bring it to a complete stop. Lyriq also has a variable control for the paddle, where with the ELR it is on/off only. And also, if regen is limited due to high battery state of charge or cold temperature, it will mix in friction braking to cause the same decel rate - also something the ELR doesn't do.
I think the spare tire issue is mostly about money. It's something the company can cut out of the car to save money and most people don't realize how important it is of a feature. The other fact is Cell phones exist. A spare tire used to be a potentially life saving feature. If you got a flat tire out in the middle of no where you were out of luck, stranded to walk to the nearest phone or hope for a ride. Now you get a flat, call AAA or what ever service you use and thats it. The threat of being stranded is fairly low unless you actually manage to break down in an area without coverage.
Wow my 2019 Colorado had problems with Apple CarPlay crashing the entire infotainment system constantly. Amazing GM still, after 4-5 years, hasn’t been able to figure that out and fix it.
@HooviesGarage I'm sure hundreds of Tesla owners have already told you but the full self driving does have the eye tracking system to make sure you're paying attention to the road and the software can also detect the steering wheel weights. The full self driving also works on all roads, not just major highways/interstates. It also stops at stop signs and red lights, changes lanes and passes on its own, navigates roundabouts etc... Pretty impressive stuff, you should give it shot. 19:20 The Lyriq looks more luxurious but Tesla full self driving and charging infrastructure are superior to any other manufacturer out there right now.
It's a normal camera though so you can't wear sunglasses. Amazing to see another car maker with self driving, if you listened to the koolaid drinking Tesla fans FSD is the only one but it seems Mercedes have one of the best out there and without LIDAR Tesla and just cameras Tesla will never catch up.
Coming from an IT background, the problem with putting so much under the control of software is the software is not designed to be able to cope with hardware errors, all the testing is invalidated. This was proven with an electric MG recently in the UK when a guy suffered an electronics failure that caused both pedals and parking brake to become inoperative, with the car steadily driving at 30mph. There was no override in the cabin that allowed the driver to switch off or stop the vehicle. As far as I'm concnerned, such vehicles are too dangerous to pass safety tests and shuold not be sellable to the public. There was a story on public news about it.
That is not true, automotive software is designed to cope with HW errors. There is a norm for that : ISO26262. Some car manufacturer are way more relaxed towards it though. For sure most of the Chinese manufacturers, even Tesla to some extent. This norm is one of the main reason why your car evolves a lot slower than your phone for example.
@@madisons31agreed. MG aside (which is Chinese vehicle with known brake failure issues), almost all ADAS / FSD software are programmed to deal with HW failure such as that and if not automatically disengaged, can be stopped multiple ways (brakes, steering wheel, autopilot button, or touchscreen).
IT software is a world away from automotive software. Apples and oranges. The amount of test cases, coverages, traceability, functional safety, etc that is needed to achieve ASIL-D will drive any normal software developer mad. There are so many fail safes. The older OEMs, American, European, Japanese, korean all follow this.
Why in the world would any "car guy" actually want the car to drive itself? That's absurd. Cruise control gives my foot a rest. Ok there. Stability control keeps my Z06 out of the ditches. Ok there. Air bags. Ok in case I mess up W-A-Y too big. Crash bars in the doors. OK in case I mess up W-A-Y too big. The rest of that stuff.... keep and and don't charge so much for a car.
Personally I love the new self driving features and can't wait until the majority of the terrible drivers in my area get them... Distracted weaving over lane lines, poor merging, lack of signaling and emergency cutting across multiple lanes to make your exit will be a thing of the past.
I will answer this as a car guy: Supercruise is great for an extra set of eyes around you on the highway - it allows YOU as a driver to look further ahead and behind you while the car watches the road and the perimeter. Super amazing on long trips on the highway. My Yukon XL is amazing to take on long trips and it takes some of the pressure off of you as the driver. Again: I use it as a second set of eyes, not so much a hands off the wheel kind of drive. I am still prepared in the event of a need for an evassive maneuver.
@@toesuf94 Driver aids are one thing... I have a 23 Ridgeline w/tech package... so I get that. But to be hands off means BRAINS OFF. Instead of dumbing down drivers.. let increase capabilities of them. IMO a BMV (DMV) test ought to include sliding a car sideways on a wet skid pad.
My friend who worked for AAA can tell you why spares are going away. Yes yes CAFE regulations, but mostly it's because with smartphones and Uber, people won't use them. He showed up many times for a tow, to find a customer with a flat tire, and a spare available. He'd offer to install the spare so they could be on their way and go to the tire shop whenever it's convenient for them, and they'd refuse. See they had an Uber arriving in 2 minutes and they just wanted to give him their keys and have him drop the car off at the tire shop. They can't be bothered to drive themselves to a tire shop, let alone install a spare themselves.
Living in Tacoma Washington, I just got to see a Tesla truck in the wild over the weekend. IMHO it is the ugliest vehicular-pos on the road. It looks like a urinal on wheels, or an escaped utility sink. Congratulations on getting out of your copy while the getting is good. Honestly, all non hybrid EVs are a stupid idea. The national electric grid is nowhere near where it would need to be to support large numbers of vehicles being plugged in at night, especially since they will be competing for power with air conditioners, electric hot water heaters, washer dryers and electric stoves. But of course you making questionable decision is the point of your excellent channel! Onward and downward!!
Rear view mirror camera, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring and backup cameras are nice. But a legal disclaimer every single time you start, lane alert, collision warning alert, pedestrian alert, seat belt alert that won’t shut off after 3-4 dings, ICE cars with stop-start, and telemetry to tattle to my insurance company are deal breakers for me.
@@stuffhappens5681 just where I work I only know what I've seen but even a new base model like fucking equinox has lane assist and lane alert. Some trims vibrate ur ass. It's a bit of sensory overload when ur driving to say the least. Maybe some People like it but me no ty
Anyone that doesn’t use cruise control is a scourge of humanity. Funny story, I was dating a girl that told me when she bought her car, she specifically requested a car without cruise control. We were in law school so she wasn’t dumb. We didn’t last long after that. I had to explain the car can have the feature of cruise control, and you can just choose not to use it. So she basically bought the only car on the lot where that wasn’t an option. Unreal. I bet the salesman still tells that story over beers.
I don’t use it, but then again the longest I’ve been on a single highway was only about an hour and a half. I’m not even sure if the cruise control on my car works. Also when my car was made ABS was an option but cruise control was standard.
8:33 My biggest gripe about GM's SuperCruise ("Level 2.5 Automation - e.g. "Lane Centering Adaptive Cruise Control) is that it (thus far) only works on... Certain interstate Highways that they've mapped out. Meanwhile... the Pilot Assist 2 on our 2016 (built August 2015, so just about NINE YEARS OLD now...) had the identical features to Tesla's "Autopilot" (also Level 2.5 Automation... full lane centering Adaptive Cruise Control all the way down TO a stop, and then FROM a stop with a lead vehicle ahead of you, or 20 mph otherwise...) On *every road, all the time*. If the road is TOO curvy, you still have to help, but gentle bends in the road? Not a problem. I turn on Pilot Assist the second we're out of our little neighborhood, and the mental load of driving around the city is reduced by...probably 40%. It's not gonna drive you around, but normally stressful situations like stop and go traffic at rush hour are filled with a zen-like bliss as the car just casually maintains the distance to the car ahead of you...whether that's on the freeway, or just an Main Arterial (45 mph) or Feeder (35 mph) road. Not just "certain interstates"... And also none of that Tesla Stank.
a "scourge of humanity" for not using an optional feature in a car such as cruise control? What's your moral equivalent of a serial rapist? Asking for a friend.
My 24 Silverado 1500 High Country has Super Cruise! I absolutely love it, only had it for a month and a half, already have 4000 miles. 2600 of Super Cruise alpine
The 2 valve stems are for the TPMS sensor. It is a reverse mount wheel, to have room to mount the wheel and not damage the sensor it needs to be at the back. The other is a regular valve stem so the wheels are servicable from the outside.
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Now trade the Cadillac for a Ford F-150 EV😂😂😂
Cybertruck shit not hot
Are you going to buy the new international scout! EV in 2026. When it comes out !!!!!!
nobody cares about ship station
Stop saying planet only American buy that stupid car the world don’t evolved around Tesla and American things
Every times the Wizard touch an EV he breaks some plastic stuff ! LOL
This time it was just standard GM build quality.
Hes not accustomed to products made for soy people
Cheaply made plastic junk
it is an american automotive product,... what do you expect?
That has nothing to do with the fact that is an EV. It's probably an issue with American brands.
Selling the Cybertruck for $111,000 might be Hoovie's saviest move ever!
Seriously... I think he no longer can call it the dumbest car channel...
Unless Tesla decides to make an example out of Hoovie… otherwise I agree this was a great move!
@@JonathonBarton Really? I legit sold my Cybertruck tonight in Raleigh NC for 125k at 4PM and it has 1,973 miles on it....pretty much the same as his.
@@57ttocs they'll blacklist him from buying a Tesla and voiding the warranty...wotth it.
We forgot to check him for missing fingers…. The front looper lid.
The caddy was an excellent choice compared to Tesla's jagged piece of metal. It was nice to see what real engineering looks like. You timed the market perfectly. That is an excellent video and an excellent buy.
Real engineering, except for the center console cover that broke because the glue failed.
@@chrimony shhhhhh! We arent suppose to expose other cars flaws!
@@chrimonybetter than having 0 options like the Trash Truck
"real engineering" so inefficient they didn't have room for a front trunk.
Just Got a '24 Cadillac LYRIQ AWD Burgundy White seats $45,772 w/ 6881miles
I knew by waiting all year I could do better than $60 -80k
Now I'll use my savings to get an electrician to install my Level 2 charger in my garage
There needs to be a photo of a Northstar V8 under that engine cover to jumpscare the Car Wizard.
Honestly I think the Northstar engine cover would fit pretty well in there haha
Hoovie, you should do it. Lol
Doesn’t he like northstars if you mod them to fix the design flaw?
It seems appropriate, the EV system from GM probably has roughly the same reliability of an old Northstar
Who else is liking and watching every video no matter what
stay alive !!!
As someone that works on them. The 2023 have updates to the software. The center console is a know issue that was fixed in later models and the dealer will fix it in short time.
Time and time again these manufacturers let these cars go to production with known issues. Engineers on the front end of the business don't care about the money spent on the back end in service/warranty costs. Engineers only care about meeting production schedules.
How does poor glue make it past the quality control people? Are there any quality control people? Doesn't seem like it with new(er) cars. Maybe the cost of 4 bolts would have been a better idea?
@@jusdsun8319sadly, the issue is that we generally want to care, but having timing pushed up and constant pushes for cost-cutting efforts makes it really hard to do anything about it.
Trust me, I guarantee the engineers brought up the likelihood of warranty issues. But it was hand-waved away because it's cheaper up front, and the program manager gets rewarded for that now, and will have moved on to another role by the time those warranty costs become an issue for the next newly promoted sap taking their place.
@@cliffvictoria3863That’s GM in a nutshell. Btw, EV’s arn’t the future and far from sustainable of course. The fact is that if we gonna electrify everything, we have to mine more copper in the coming years than the amount we mined totally from the first time we began with it till this day! That already says enough about the unattainable utopian net-zero insanity and stupidity from our governments and policymakers.. The clown world we live in these days.. it’s f*cking insane! Goddayumn! 😒
It is just embarrassing.
The problem with all the driver assist stuff is that it still expects the driver to take over at fraction of a second notice when it screws up, the bad news is that the more driver assist you have the drive pays way less attention to the road.... A recipe for disaster.
have you ever used it?
Absolutely agree. I just cannot see true autonomous driving happening before there's a slew of lawsuits for "corner cases." A "corner case" is that one-in-a-million situation that the programmers didn't plan for, so instead of running over the five nuns crossing the street, it veers over and hits "only" one baby carriage. Seems like a lot of nightmare lawsuits will happen for them before they get it to be better than a human driver. Heck, even when it is, people will still sue them because of what they consider poor choices for who they run over or what they run into.
@@kurtbilinski1723 have you ever used it?
False. You don't have one.
@@CruedEP exactly.. people are commenting with no experience. unless you have it, and use it. you'll never understand how the system actually works and be able to provide a valid comment on its use and safety.
"I'm so broke!"
"Here's my new baby-grand piano!"
Used pianos are often very inexpensive because the cost to move, set up and re-tune is more than the value of the piano. That’s why you are so many free pianos on CL or Marketplace.
@@bryancohn9406 Yeah to be fair unless it's some antique hand crafted master piece most Piano's are fairly cheap because the demand is so low. They take up a lot of space and honestly as some one who played music for years they don't sound that much better than a keyboard unless you get into the really high end stuff. Given most people live in small homes or apartments, having a Piano is basically dedicating an entire room just to it.
And let’s add some drama to that piano. Seems to be the new norm on video titles
The" ko sher" Fiat money network
The Lyric looks really good. Especially parked next to the Cyber Truck 😂
5:18 it's not "lack of spare tire" is "extra space" /s
I hate this marketing BS towards cost cutting.
I agree. A spare tire is such valuable insurance. 24/7 roadside assistance is great, but if you're not near a big city it can be a long wait. The spare tire shouldn't be sacrificed.
Honestly if I had to guess i would say only 10% who drive actually know how to properly change a flat tire with a spare, i always said that changing a spare tire should be mandatory in drivers ed instead of parallel parking
@@cytherians I used to work for a fleet management company and one year all of this one companies new fleet of Chevy Malibus all came with a pump/fix-a-flat setup vs a spare tire. I guess they had a few issues where sales reps cut a tire where the fix-a-flat would not work so we got a request to take all of the hundreds of Malibus already in service into dealerships to have a spare tire installed. They also changed all of their future orders to include a spare from the get go.
Gas cars want better MPG ratings, also more advertised storage. Sounds like no run flats on this since all the talk of smooth ride.
I am torn on this. A spare tire is good insurance. I know how to install them. That being said, though I have had spare tires in every car I have owned, I have only used a spare tire once in my driving history. And I grew up living on dirt roads. So, in 30 years of driving and half a million miles, I'm not sure I would pay extra for one. But, it all depends on how you maintain your vehicles and where you drive. If you run crap tires and don't replace them when they're worn out, you're going to need a spare. And if you don't maintain your vehicle, a spare isn't always going to save you.
The Lyric is a very impressive, astonishingly intellligent car! It knows metric is just plain better!
Except for the dumb name that even people like you that like the car can't actually spell correctly.
Metric is for people too stupid to figure out what half of 3/8th is.
Metric is worse.
Metric is indeed worse it only put a man on the moon…
Every imperial measurement is in US law defined in metric…
Why is a survey foot different from an international foot, British gallon different to US gallon a tonne not a ton and a pound not half a kilo(the correct pound) and on and on…
@@Cincy32 That's why NASA ingenieurs use Metric .... LOL
Get rid of a vehicle with potential catastrophic depreciation, get something with assured catastrophic depreciation :)
From 35k is far better than from 105k, even if it would be worth 10-15k after 4 years :)
Exactly!
Much like every high end German or British luxury make....🤣
👍😹
Being used, it already had a head start on the depreciation curve when he jumped in, so he's already ahead 😂
My dad hated the glare on the interior silver bits so much he had them all wrapped black
I'm a migraineur. The glary bits of plastic chrome in any vehicle are tough on my eyes.
Brilliant solution.
I had to do the same in my Chevy volt
Why do car manufacturers love to torture their customers?
All plastic and metal in the cockpit area should be matte black with close to zero reflectivity
“This is actually not even mine, I was just trying to get hurt on it.” LMAO the Wizard is the best.
There is something about the Wizard retiring that unsettles me... like it would be a confirmation of the old world being gone 😔
Its only gone if we let it go
Will not miss that fraud
he won't be retiring, unless he's saving they money hoovie is giving him, no one will be able to retire.
he won't be retiring, unless he's saving they money hoovie is giving him, no one will be able to retire.
I think the Wizard is only in his forties, so maybe he won't be retiring soon. Or he's just talking about retiring from physical labor since his company and social media are bringing in enough revenue to allow him to retire early.
Everyone knows that you never EVER buy first year GM. Which makes first year GM a perfect candidate for Hoovie's Garage.
First year anybody.
My third eldest sister did that (2007 GMC Acadia) she was happier than a pig in shit until it started giving her problems mind you 2007 was the first year of the first gen Acadia.
21:11 that putty is actually used for sound dampening. Think of having one hand on a drum head and hitting it verses not having your hand on it, muffles and quiets the vibrations. Lots of cars incorporate that on the undercarriage if you look.
Tesla uses the cabin camera for driver attentiveness, has done for some time now. There's even a strike system, where if you get so many within a certain time, you lose some functionality until strikes are cleared after a rolling 7 day period.
So Muskrat puts you in detention, like you are one of his 28 children?!
And you've now summed up why I'll never ever even talk to anyone about a Tesla. George Orwell would be extremely proud of the control a company like Tesla has over idiots that "buy" their crappy product. When you own something, but the company that made the product can still tell you how to behave in said product is the very definition of slavery IMHO. I swear the people that are devoted to Tesla really must love being told how to live their lives in 10,000 different ways. I'd offer up some political explanation, but it should be obvious what political party Tesla owners tend to gravitate towards.
@@pwoeckener lmfao holy sh*t you might actually be insane. Stop being ignorant and actually learn something for once instead of crying to someone in a comment section, talking about how all tesla owners are dumb, or that tesla controls everything. Just chill bro, treat people like actual people
And do you mean tesla owners are incomprehensibly stupid maga followers, since elon is republican.
or do you mean tesla owners are all democrat
Because It could go either way based on what i read
if you are a democrat though, just be normal please, you don’t have to close your mind and surround it in concrete
@@pwoeckener Tesla isn't the only car company to require end-user agreements to buy their vehicles , just the worst.
@@pwoeckener Did you or did you not just watch the video in which a Cadillac did the exact same thing -- monitor your attentiveness with cameras? It's not a Tesla thing. It's a "you're still responsible for your car even if it's driving itself" thing. And I think it was Kia that has, as a condition of buying their cars, reserved the right to collect literally everything about you up to and including genetic material and sexual habits?
And don't get me started on the government. You are aware cops can pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt in any state, right? And many states don't let you wear headphones while driving? And you can't tint your car windows too much? Other people are very much in control of what you can do with your car. Again, Tesla has barely moved the needle here.
I’ve been driving for 48 years and have logged over a million miles. I never use cruise control and would HATE the self driving feature.
I don’t want some robot tin can in control of where it is propelling my body. I want all control myself. Period.
You don't have to use it Leo
7:23 Tyler had a Freudian slip moment
Also Wizard breaking the plastic trim is as funny as him breaking the little tab on the air filter on the Cybertruck
Piece of advise……orange cable…don’t tounch unless disconnected
How else is wizard supposed to get workman's comp?
They are shielded you know...
@@vadim7590 Yes, I know…..does he know?
@@vadim7590like a ignition wire? You can't see it but you feel it 😂
@@vadim7590 you trust GM to shield high voltage cables properly?
The light in the back of GMCs is to open and close the hatch. However, you dont kick it. Just wave your foot past if you have your hands full and can't push the button.
"I can enjoy this for a few years without losing too much money" - famous last words ;-)
Thanks for not focusing solely on “exotics and foreign”
Facts
You poor?😂
EVs really remind me of video games these days. All these issues will be fixed with a software update (known as a patch in video games).
tip: use black car wrap to wrap your plastic bling. Works fantastically, looks good.
Did to my son’s Mercedes. Had the wood trim and it was faded and starting to crack. We ordered some Faux carbon fiber wrap and covered all the wood. Really updated the interior and made it look newer!
Why is bluetooth still trash after 25 years?
It's a flawed technology..
It's really not.
Because you haven’t invented something better. Come on, get cracking and save us from this antiquated blue tooth.
Bad software programming, and phones getting constant software updates.
Bluetooth is the best short range tech... that is why it is still around
I work for KIA UK and I’m seeing a lot of our stuff in that caddy “borrowed” from the EV9/SPORTAGE/SORENTO.
Two valve stems are for nitrogen fill, draw out the air with one and fill with the other.
That’s hilarious!!! The wizard and the center console, “bits are falling off” 🤣🤣🤣
GM quality at work. Imagine the ones in Arizone or hot humid Florida. How many other glued parts will come apart?
The Lyric actually started production in March of 2022. Software development must have started two years prior to that. So GM has had over 4 years of software development to get this vehicle sorted out. Per the comments on the Lyric forum and Hoovie's experience as well, they still can't get it right.
GM is shorthand for “Half-assed and overpriced.”
You obviously aren't in IT... users can break anything. The first 2 years of development are meaningless.
My Cadillac broke often. My Lexus, not so much.
@@redwolfexr our 2011 Lexus RX350 has never been in the shop but anything other than wear and tear maintenance. Our 2016 Cadillac XTS has had transmission, about ready for another, infotainment crashes every 18 months, exhaust leaks, pump issues, etc. It’s simply American incompetence to build anything with pride in precision engineering and quality but only for profit. Screw GM.
That’s one advantage that Tesla has where all their software is the same for all their cars. Instead of having custom versions for every model.
Watching this while my Cadillac is getting fixed again. Might need a new folder for my 5 years of service records
You didn't wonder why somebody got rid of this Cadillac after 9,000 miles?
I doubt there’s much speculation about why the first owner dumped it.
What was there to wonder. Cadillac owners buy Cadillacs not evs
Cadillac doesnt make good cars. They make cars that are quiet for 20k miles, then something goes wrong and it spends 2 months in the shop requiring sound isolation and deadening to get removed to fix shit, and the warranty doesnt cover sounds deadening.
Coronavirus
Maybe bc some people like to buy a new car every single year, or the last owner didn't like the car. Either way, it's not a big deal...
Love the Lyriq - my buddy has one and the love it. No issues in the first year.
I'm glad to hear your buddy is having a good experience. We'll see how long it lasts.
I think you need to go on a trip and see How great it is to find a charging place and how long it will take!!
I think he has a gas van for road-trips. He is probably using this for local and the massive savings 30 miles for 10kw of power probably .90 or a dollar in Kansas
GM can access the Supercharger network, now (or, very soon). No idea what watts this vehicle can pull from the charger but at least the tesla network is pretty well established.
@@TheJohn8765I just did a 1500 mile trip in a Lyriq. Didn't even have to stop at Superchargers and it was pretty easy. Quick 25 minute stop every 3 hours of driving or so was pretty much what I do anyways on road trips, so really NBD.
Still.. EV’s arn’t the future and far from sustainable of course. The fact is that if we gonna electrify everything, we have to mine more copper in the coming years than the amount we mined totally from the first time we began with it till this day! That already says enough about the unattainable utopian net-zero insanity and stupidity from our governments and policymakers.. The clown world we live in these days.. it’s f*cking insane! Goddayumn! 😒
Knowing hoovie I doubt he'll take it on a road trip will probably sell it at the end of summer.
The quality issues with cars now days is mind blowing, but then add the hefty price tags in todays market and it is just criminally insane!
they must think we're all fools. if they're going to deliver cars that don't work properly, then at best I'd buy the cheapest car they sell. Who would pay extra for a luxury brand vehicle that arrives broken and goes downhill from there?
You can thank the government for that. They're forcing car makers to make them lighter fragile and of course mission friendly. So this is the result.
Apparently so too are aircraft. Quality control in general is nonexistent in 2024…
@@Arctic5fox CAFE standards making the car market worse and worse.
In the old days they didn't have computers powerful enough to analyse failure rates of parts with a lot of precision, so they took big margins of errors and made solid parts that didn't break. Now they can design a part to last just enough for warranty, so they can optimise their profits. If you want quality buy Toyota, GM products should be leased.
America has two salvatory things others don't: 1. a uniform language that happens to be the lingua franca of the world as well, and 2. SPACE. There is soo muuuch spaaaace everywhere, it is difficult to see that without getting jealous.
I am not sure how you can say America has two things others don't have when the first of those two is the English language (my home language, you are welcome) that you correctly describe as the world's lingua franca!
So is the English language unique to America or not?? :)
@@PauloG100 I speak both English and American. That's a joke, we speak similar languages for sure but American's changed a lot of English to suit themselves.
@@joecoolioness6399 you are missing the point. How can English be unique to the USA and the world’s language?
I do like the back lights wrapping around the quarter panel for safety sake of everyone around you knowing what you're planning on doing.
Hoovie on Wheeler Dealer next
🎸🎶 Guitar riff!
With Edd China
Good for you. Glad you got a new house and getting things the way you want. I know nothing about cars in the US, but your channel is the one to watch.
My coffee went all over me because of the wizard breaking the the center console. You guys are great.
Staged
@@teamvid9454Cope
Even if staged, stupid funny. Trial and error investigations can be like that.
How can they not even make a center console storage lid that lasts. Oh GM
Laughs in mid 2000s Audi
Hey! Somebody fell for the staged stunt!
@@nstg8 Laughs in 2-year old car vs 20-year old car.
Every time I look at a GM product and think that maybe, just maybe, their quality issues have been resolved, I am quickly reminded that they are still put together with spit. Had a similar experience with a rental Cadillac around 2012. It never ends. Flashbacks to my dad's brand new Seville simply falling apart all on its own to the point that he was afraid of driving it for fear of what would fall off the car next.
dude there are Cadillacs from the 70s still running. how many CTs do you think are going to be running just 2 years from now? 🤣🤣🤣
All of them. Teslas never die..😉
Had a CTS, drove it for 5yrs. , and was a good experience.
My first car was an early 2000s used Seville. There was a new problem every week. Thankfully, Obama gave us that clunkers program when the engine finally started to go for good.
One thing you can do to make the Lyriq's system more stable is to not use Apple Car Play or Android Auto wirelessly. Plug it into the USB port, and it works *SO* much better!
That holds true for any car.
Plug it in ? This isn’t 1970
@@farmergeddon 😂 No, but wireless Apple Car Play and Android Auto are both horribly unreliable. And it doesn't matter what car, either. I've seen issues in literally every car that implements that feature. It's just not ready for prime-time yet. Plug it in to make your life a lot easier.
@@LMacNeill Even plugging it in a 2021 Kia makes some problems. I need to get a new wire every 2 months and it still breaks.
The Honda associate specifically told me this when I bought my car.
the glue is coming off 🤣 up to Cadillac standard then, well done Hoovie 👏
Tesla does have that system. My 2020 model 3 knows when you pick up your phone or look away. There's a tiny camera above the rear view mirror that pays attention to your level of attention to the road while autopilot is engaged!
Tesla does actually have cameras that check if you look at the road, and gives you warnings if you dont. If the behaviour repeats it turns off autopilot until next drive, and with multiple repeats autopilot will be blocked for a week I think.
No more sleeping in the backseat 😂
Hope there is a lawsuit for bricking features you paid for
Also he was wrong about putting a weight on the steering wheel. Since people was actually doing that some years ago they changed so the force can't be constant. A human hand will not pull/push constant but a weight would.
@@pjohan74 yeah, I know about that to.
@@thedopplereffect00 it's not bricking, it's holding the driver up for s while, because they're a total fuck up. Use as intended, or don't use it. Shouldn't the company have the freedom to decide how their products are supposed to work?
The front end of the Lyriq looks nice, but if it was hit by another vehicle going just a few miles per hour, it would appear that there would be a lot of damage and money involved.
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Thank you so much for this fantastic video! Selling your Tesla for the Cadillac Lyriq was an interesting choice, and I appreciate how detailed you were in explaining your decision. Your insights into the pros and cons of both vehicles, from performance to features, really gave me a comprehensive understanding of what the Lyriq has to offer. Your honest comparisons were incredibly helpful, and it’s clear you put a lot of thought and effort into creating this review. Looking forward to more of your content!
I'm 24 now, and honestly really wouldn't seek out a new vehicle with self driving or a boatload of safety tech just yet. I do however believe that the Lyriq was a good switch!!!
The glare from the chrome trim was something I noticed and couldn't stand about a GMC Acadia I rented one time. I can't believe they are still making this design mistake. The inset trim in the steering wheel is also obnoxious and uncomfortable to grip.
It's because old people like it. It reminds them of the cars of their youth. It's why you only really find it on cars aimed to an older demographic
Fake chrome has always looked bad
That light projects their logo onto the ground when you approach it at night. I rented a hybrid once. You will see it on their other brands as well. It comes on when the key is within range to operate.
Cadillac was so bad at servicing the ELR and burned me that I vowed to never buy another electric car from a non-electric car company.
The only service my ELR gets is tires and infrequent oil changes, neither of which are done by a dealer.
cadillac is crap, the old ones are cool, but so LAME and slow boats to no where, no one goes the speed limit anymore, they are done.
@@joesmith9216 People go the speed limit, slower and faster, and Cadillac does all. Did you have a point?
Except those electric only car companies can be gone tomorrow. At least with my Nissan EV, even if they can't sell EV's I have a dealership to take mine to for service.
@@joecoolioness6399 Exactly. These EV companies don't have the resources to compete with the big manufacturers when they get going on these things. And even if they do they'll be done once people wake up and stop with the EV garbage.
A company from Michigan placing a speaker on the bottom of a car is wild
Imagine the salt buildup after even one winter... lol.
Nothing wild about it EV's are quiet they all have speakers to make a noise so you can hear it it's a safety issue 🤷♂️
@@jasoncaine2600 Required by federal law, BTW.
I’d keep the CBT due to bullet proof body I heard Michelin is coming out with flat less tires, I can’t wait for bullet proof window tints.
I prefer the Cadillac. Especially at that deal. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
Cruise control is amazing for giving your leg /knee a break on long trips. Especially for us older cats.
Word. I wish my car had adaptive CC but even the non-adaptive is great for even shorter trips.
FYI...Tesla DOES have a camera monitoring your eyes to make sure you are paying attention. It works quite well now. The nag of the steering wheel is a carry over from years ago and in FSD V12.4 goes away as long as the camera can see your eyes.
They don’t do research. They prefer to look and sound stupid. 😂😂😂
watching the wizard break hoovies car just opening the center console made my day. Why? IDK
We want the farm finished! Haha!
A farm is never finished
Adaptive and predictive cruise, lane departure warnings it's all great till it stops working. Every modern semi has these, including the visual eye detection for those long haulers.
The car wizard has been breaking everything he touches lately 😂
Here in the UK most, if not all new cars, don't come with spare wheels. Its mainly to do with emission and fuel consumption figures. If the car weighs less then it uses less fuel etc etc which then produces less emissions which means it falls into a cheaper tax bracket so its more attractive to potential customers. Its also better for manufacturers as they don't have to supply spare wheels/jacks. The fact you're stuck at the side of the road with a puncture is our problem not theirs.
They are fitted, largely, with run flat tyres with a can of tyre foam in the boot so not completely stranded, dependent on tyre damage.
@@leccybadger I think run flat tyres are still relatively rare. The spray can is the best we get.
They claim it's for emissions and fuel economy. It's really a cost-cutting measure. No spare tire offered means they don't need to engineer a place to put it, nor do they need to pay to manufacture extra wheels or special space-saver spare tires. They can save a couple hundred bucks per car, and pass the savings on to the executives.
The last 2 cars we've had had "conventional" tyres rather than run flats, they did supply a can of gunk which thankfully we haven't had to use yet. And that raises another problem as once you've used the gunk then the tyre must be scrapped and can't be repaired. So instead of a simple cheap repair you're on the hook for a new tyre. My colleague needed a new tyre last week after hitting a pothole and the soonest the garage could get him booked in was 3 days later despite the fact they had the tyre in stock, its a company car so we are at the mercy of the lease company. It took them 2 days to get a rental car to him ! All for the sake of a stupid tyre ! Its maddening.
@@jbconno Cans of gunk are normally only suitable as a desperate Halfords purchase when your rental car gets a slow puncture before you return it. Your own car needs a proper spare wheel and tyres of decent aspect ratio so that the wheels don't crack when meeting potholes.
Tesla Full Self Driving does have all of that functionality, including eye-tracking, and also includes self driving on surface/city streets, and anywhere you choose to drive. They've done away with the steering wheel nag recently. Tesla FSD is available on the S, X, 3 and Y. FSD is not yet available on the Cybertruck, but slated to be soon. 😃
Weirdly enough, the caddy has the best looking grill, outta any EV right now
And that’s saying a lot, because it’s really ugly.
No way. 😆
Nah Rolls-Royce has it beat.
Cadillacs have looked like shit ever since they ditched the Art and Design ethos. I would never buy another, EV or not.
@@sailirish7 id buy their performance v8 cars, and that's it. The only EV I would own is a taycan
I just wanna start off by saying this is far from the dumbest automotive show on UA-cam. This is actually one of the most informative and interesting places to be on UA-cam Continue to be an icon
It’s a joke
@djwilliams4714 would've been if they'd used actual facts over hate by brand. He said many wrong and bias based things. Tesla is the most American car built, the fsd is lightyears better than gm system requiring precise mapping meaning can't be any construction. The Teslas have eye monitoring now, the weights haven't worked for a long time, etc. Take outdated info and experience on a new release vehicle untested, then spew uninformed bias against the main vehicles of Tesla. Sorry but I hated Tesla for years, but I researched them this year and they are the most American car with good quality, lowest cost to own, and best most reliable tech. GM has massive work to catch up as Tesla sells 10x their nearest competitor, which is Ford. Tesla quality is improving by leaps already comparable to Toyota and using brand won't stand up. Now Chevys new ev truck, that is a homerun, good quality, excellent range, and perfect utility.
Do you know it’s funny we were actually back in like late 2022 cross shopping a lyric with a model Y performance we decided to go with the model Y performance because we owned a 2010 Cadillac SRX and it ended up getting lemon lawed because it was in the shop all the time for electrical issues. So we ended up going with the model Y performance and it’s still going good so far with 84,000 miles with so far no major issues
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
You'll enjoy knowing that I'm a DeLorean owner and an engineer at GM that works on the Lyriq. :)
Thank You Hoovie for road testing all of those Duds!
I just don't get the mindset. You got rid of the Cybertruck in part because you didn't want to "pay to be a beta tester." With EV's (and even newer ICE cars), you will ALWAYS be a "beta tester." The software is constantly being updated, and you're paying to test whether or not those updates work. It's complete insanity when you think about it. A software update could brick any part of the system. There's a chance it could be a critical component, and you won't find out about it until you need to use said component.
Yes kid but the Caddy comes with options that eats Tesla for breakfast + better looks
@@royale7620 If I'm a kid, you're a fetus.
Now, listen up, fetus: Hoovie is beta testing the Caddy, just like he was beta testing the Cybertruck. The only difference is, Tesla has been doing the EV thing for awhile now, so you'd expect their software updates to come out fast, and be stable. On the flip side, Cadillac's EV's are new. While I'd buy a Caddy ICE car (made 2005 or so and before, mind you) all day, I wouldn't even waste a brain cell on the consideration of one of their EV's.
Personally, fetus, I wouldn't buy any EV, period. I would only buy one if I were driving short distances every day, and I had a home where I could charge them (outside) at night. I have the short distance requirement, but not the home. Since I don't know if I want to stay in the country, let alone my current area, I'm just renting my property. That way, if I decide I want to leave the country, or move to a different state, I'm not anchored by a home I have to offload before I can do anything.
Those are some "pro tips" from a kid, fetus. Take them to heart, or don't. I couldn't care less.
A receptionist where I used to work had a Cadillac. I do not recall exactly what model it was. When she was no longer driving it I asked her what happened to it. She said the thing had electrical issues in the dashboard. Glitches like that seem to be a thing with GM products. I cannot imagine owning one of these things where everything is electrical. Hoovie should start looking for a flat bed tow truck because he is going to need one.
Our 2018 equinox was rock solid when we sold it with 55,000 miles. CarPlay even worked without crashes.
gm is LOW on the quality level, guess who's making them? haha
Hoovie, single handily bringing down the entire WICHITA E.V. Market.
One word when looking at the Cadillac. Plush. Seems like a good choice
5:30 I thought a spare tire was an important feature until I purchased a pre-owned 2010 Corolla with 125,000 miles a few months ago.
The jack and spare have never been used (!). Tires are a lot better than they used to be. I continue to drive around with the equipment, but the extra weight is hard to fully justify imho.
@@heywhatsthatsmell Been a long time... decades since I had a sudden flat on my car. I have picked up plenty of screws or nails, notice it going flat, so I get it repaired. Knock on wood, so to speak.
Once again making the Car Wizard contemplate retirement.
I drive a Cadillac lyric, sometimes for work. And was wondering if anyone else’s had complete and total brake failure as I experienced in the Cadillac lyric. Luckily I was able to roll to a stop at a red light in the appropriate distance, and I didn’t hit anyone or anything.
Nice video - several clarifications... One pedal driving does not get better efficiency - Lyriq has a blended braking system - just a different way of driving the car. Software bugs were mentioned, but there have also been plenty of dead Lyriqs also due to 12V system issues. The center console lid falling apart is a known issue - TSB for dealer to re-glue.
One pedal driving should get better efficiency since energy is recaptured via regen.
@@jochenstacker7448 As mentioned, Lyriq has a blended braking system. When you use the regular brake pedal, the regen happens there also - doesn't use the friction brakes unless you panic stop. It will apply the friction brakes to hold the car when stopped, same as one-pedal does as you slow. Regen is occurring with the brake pedal application, throttle lift off, or with the paddle on the steering wheel. Just a different way of controlling the stopping of the car, no difference in efficiency for the same stopping rate - the amount of regen recapture is the same.
@@billjohnson3344 oh, clever, I like.
@@billjohnson3344 Hi Bill, how’s the ELR! Only using the paddle you know you aren’t using any friction braking.
@@rsewill12 That is correct on the ELR, but not correct for the Lyriq. The last stopping is done with the friction brakes, and the friction brakes hold the car when stopped. On the ELR, the paddle will only slow the vehicle - but not bring it to a complete stop. Lyriq also has a variable control for the paddle, where with the ELR it is on/off only. And also, if regen is limited due to high battery state of charge or cold temperature, it will mix in friction braking to cause the same decel rate - also something the ELR doesn't do.
great episode. Thanks for going over the new Caddy. Another awesome Toyota / Lexus commercial! 👍
Hoovie and the Wizard are one of my favorite duos in carland youtube
Was anyone else here worried that Hoovie was gonna get himself and the Wizard killed in a self-driving accident? Thank God that didn't play out!
I think the spare tire issue is mostly about money. It's something the company can cut out of the car to save money and most people don't realize how important it is of a feature. The other fact is Cell phones exist. A spare tire used to be a potentially life saving feature. If you got a flat tire out in the middle of no where you were out of luck, stranded to walk to the nearest phone or hope for a ride.
Now you get a flat, call AAA or what ever service you use and thats it. The threat of being stranded is fairly low unless you actually manage to break down in an area without coverage.
Make sure you look up how to get the hatch open to get into the lyric when the battery bricks.
Is it different from how you get into a Tesla when the battery bricks?
Wow my 2019 Colorado had problems with Apple CarPlay crashing the entire infotainment system constantly. Amazing GM still, after 4-5 years, hasn’t been able to figure that out and fix it.
Everytime i hear 'super-cruise', I think of Terry Crews in a cape.
an overhead service would be so much easier than trenching through concrete.
im thinking because he lives in tornado country it needs to be trenched?
Where we live all new connections have to be underground,and if you lose your overhead you have to replace it with underground service.
They will just use a drill to tunnel sideways under the concrete. Then just drill a hole down to the tunnel.
@HooviesGarage I'm sure hundreds of Tesla owners have already told you but the full self driving does have the eye tracking system to make sure you're paying attention to the road and the software can also detect the steering wheel weights. The full self driving also works on all roads, not just major highways/interstates. It also stops at stop signs and red lights, changes lanes and passes on its own, navigates roundabouts etc... Pretty impressive stuff, you should give it shot. 19:20 The Lyriq looks more luxurious but Tesla full self driving and charging infrastructure are superior to any other manufacturer out there right now.
It's a normal camera though so you can't wear sunglasses. Amazing to see another car maker with self driving, if you listened to the koolaid drinking Tesla fans FSD is the only one but it seems Mercedes have one of the best out there and without LIDAR Tesla and just cameras Tesla will never catch up.
Coming from an IT background, the problem with putting so much under the control of software is the software is not designed to be able to cope with hardware errors, all the testing is invalidated. This was proven with an electric MG recently in the UK when a guy suffered an electronics failure that caused both pedals and parking brake to become inoperative, with the car steadily driving at 30mph. There was no override in the cabin that allowed the driver to switch off or stop the vehicle. As far as I'm concnerned, such vehicles are too dangerous to pass safety tests and shuold not be sellable to the public. There was a story on public news about it.
That is not true, automotive software is designed to cope with HW errors. There is a norm for that : ISO26262. Some car manufacturer are way more relaxed towards it though. For sure most of the Chinese manufacturers, even Tesla to some extent.
This norm is one of the main reason why your car evolves a lot slower than your phone for example.
@@madisons31agreed. MG aside (which is Chinese vehicle with known brake failure issues), almost all ADAS / FSD software are programmed to deal with HW failure such as that and if not automatically disengaged, can be stopped multiple ways (brakes, steering wheel, autopilot button, or touchscreen).
IT software is a world away from automotive software. Apples and oranges. The amount of test cases, coverages, traceability, functional safety, etc that is needed to achieve ASIL-D will drive any normal software developer mad.
There are so many fail safes. The older OEMs, American, European, Japanese, korean all follow this.
I can tell you are from an IT background and not a software background
No mate
I like the Cadillac, good trade.
If he keeps it for the same amount of time he kept the cybertruck it should be fine
18:45 I love how much more crude Wizzo is on your channel.
Why in the world would any "car guy" actually want the car to drive itself? That's absurd.
Cruise control gives my foot a rest. Ok there.
Stability control keeps my Z06 out of the ditches. Ok there.
Air bags. Ok in case I mess up W-A-Y too big.
Crash bars in the doors. OK in case I mess up W-A-Y too big.
The rest of that stuff.... keep and and don't charge so much for a car.
Personally I love the new self driving features and can't wait until the majority of the terrible drivers in my area get them... Distracted weaving over lane lines, poor merging, lack of signaling and emergency cutting across multiple lanes to make your exit will be a thing of the past.
I will answer this as a car guy: Supercruise is great for an extra set of eyes around you on the highway - it allows YOU as a driver to look further ahead and behind you while the car watches the road and the perimeter. Super amazing on long trips on the highway. My Yukon XL is amazing to take on long trips and it takes some of the pressure off of you as the driver. Again: I use it as a second set of eyes, not so much a hands off the wheel kind of drive. I am still prepared in the event of a need for an evassive maneuver.
@@watchimgo So what's it like to wear a skirt?
@@toesuf94 Driver aids are one thing... I have a 23 Ridgeline w/tech package... so I get that. But to be hands off means BRAINS OFF.
Instead of dumbing down drivers.. let increase capabilities of them.
IMO a BMV (DMV) test ought to include sliding a car sideways on a wet skid pad.
@@wydopnthrtl Insults are more effective without spelling errors.
My friend who worked for AAA can tell you why spares are going away. Yes yes CAFE regulations, but mostly it's because with smartphones and Uber, people won't use them. He showed up many times for a tow, to find a customer with a flat tire, and a spare available. He'd offer to install the spare so they could be on their way and go to the tire shop whenever it's convenient for them, and they'd refuse. See they had an Uber arriving in 2 minutes and they just wanted to give him their keys and have him drop the car off at the tire shop. They can't be bothered to drive themselves to a tire shop, let alone install a spare themselves.
Pathetic - “old Gen Xer”
Cybertruck has noise canceling as well. You might not have found it in the settings, though.
Living in Tacoma Washington, I just got to see a Tesla truck in the wild over the weekend. IMHO it is the ugliest vehicular-pos on the road. It looks like a urinal on wheels, or an escaped utility sink. Congratulations on getting out of your copy while the getting is good. Honestly, all non hybrid EVs are a stupid idea. The national electric grid is nowhere near where it would need to be to support large numbers of vehicles being plugged in at night, especially since they will be competing for power with air conditioners, electric hot water heaters, washer dryers and electric stoves. But of course you making questionable decision is the point of your excellent channel! Onward and downward!!
Rear view mirror camera, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring and backup cameras are nice. But a legal disclaimer every single time you start, lane alert, collision warning alert, pedestrian alert, seat belt alert that won’t shut off after 3-4 dings, ICE cars with stop-start, and telemetry to tattle to my insurance company are deal breakers for me.
To be fair that's like every new car tho
@@evelynazalea123 Tru dat. I’ve never looked at clean used cars as much as I do now.
@@stuffhappens5681 just where I work I only know what I've seen but even a new base model like fucking equinox has lane assist and lane alert. Some trims vibrate ur ass. It's a bit of sensory overload when ur driving to say the least. Maybe some
People like it but me no ty
In 100 years we've lost 50x the quality, but gained 50x the price.
10:29 "So if it fails you can still see behind you." You mean "when" it fails, Wizard.
Anyone that doesn’t use cruise control is a scourge of humanity. Funny story, I was dating a girl that told me when she bought her car, she specifically requested a car without cruise control. We were in law school so she wasn’t dumb. We didn’t last long after that. I had to explain the car can have the feature of cruise control, and you can just choose not to use it. So she basically bought the only car on the lot where that wasn’t an option. Unreal. I bet the salesman still tells that story over beers.
I don’t use it, but then again the longest I’ve been on a single highway was only about an hour and a half. I’m not even sure if the cruise control on my car works. Also when my car was made ABS was an option but cruise control was standard.
8:33 My biggest gripe about GM's SuperCruise ("Level 2.5 Automation - e.g. "Lane Centering Adaptive Cruise Control) is that it (thus far) only works on... Certain interstate Highways that they've mapped out.
Meanwhile... the Pilot Assist 2 on our 2016 (built August 2015, so just about NINE YEARS OLD now...) had the identical features to Tesla's "Autopilot" (also Level 2.5 Automation... full lane centering Adaptive Cruise Control all the way down TO a stop, and then FROM a stop with a lead vehicle ahead of you, or 20 mph otherwise...)
On *every road, all the time*.
If the road is TOO curvy, you still have to help, but gentle bends in the road? Not a problem.
I turn on Pilot Assist the second we're out of our little neighborhood, and the mental load of driving around the city is reduced by...probably 40%. It's not gonna drive you around, but normally stressful situations like stop and go traffic at rush hour are filled with a zen-like bliss as the car just casually maintains the distance to the car ahead of you...whether that's on the freeway, or just an Main Arterial (45 mph) or Feeder (35 mph) road.
Not just "certain interstates"...
And also none of that Tesla Stank.
yeah, haha, DON'T USE IT.
a "scourge of humanity" for not using an optional feature in a car such as cruise control? What's your moral equivalent of a serial rapist? Asking for a friend.
Do you realize how idiotic you sound when you write things like this?
My 24 Silverado 1500 High Country has Super Cruise! I absolutely love it, only had it for a month and a half, already have 4000 miles. 2600 of Super Cruise alpine
I agree with that old guy Wizard met, I feel like I don't have control of the car if I use any form of cruise control and its just super unsettling.
So you got rid of a car that depreciates at $15k a year to one that losses $10k a year. Hoovie is a true move maker.
The 2 valve stems are for the TPMS sensor. It is a reverse mount wheel, to have room to mount the wheel and not damage the sensor it needs to be at the back. The other is a regular valve stem so the wheels are servicable from the outside.