It is an all-too-common drawback: You have got $158,000 burning a gap in your pocket, and a burning need for a automobile that is not like different vehicles. You need one thing that is yours, one thing distinctive. Cadillac now has the reply for you. The corporate simply launched Curated by Cadillac, a bespoke program for the 2026 CT5-V Blackwing that guarantees to show your briefcase full of money into a novel, hand-painted Cadillac together with your selection of particular inside and exterior colours. Arguably the most effective Cadillac within the lineup, finished up in your favourite colours — what’s to not like?
Curated by Cadillac is a neat idea, however it has a problem: The competitors. Automakers are more and more providing customized jobs for the fabulously rich. Cadillac is the most recent, however Porsche has lengthy provided its Paint to Pattern program for customized exterior colours — for much less cash, too. Cadillac gives “greater than 160” exterior colours for the $59,000 Curated upcharge, whereas Porsche’s base-tier PTS therapy asks simply $13,620 to use “greater than 190” colours to a comparably base-priced Taycan. If you’d like Porsche to develop a one-off colour only for you, or based mostly on a paint pattern, that’ll be $31,100.
Extra than simply colour
Now, in fact, the Cadillac bundle gives extra than simply hand-applied exterior paint. There’s additionally various unique inside choices, which Cadillac describes as “an expanded collection of colours and supplies that may be combined and matched in tens of millions of various mixtures to ship an inside atmosphere as particular person and distinctive as every consumer.” The automaker hasn’t but specified what these choices are, however hopefully there are some wild leather-based colours included. Whether or not these inside colours are well worth the $45,380 that the Curated by Cadillac program prices over Porsche’s PTS, although, is as much as the customer — that a lot money buys you quite a lot of deviated leather-based out of Stuttgart.Â
Curated by Cadillac is a neat idea. I am all the time excited when automakers begin including colours to their lineups, and I will be crossing my fingers that some wildly-colored CT5-V Blackwings begin displaying up on Fb Market in my worth vary in just a few a long time. I simply cannot assist however ponder whether the individuals with $158,000 to burn on a automobile are actually going to spend it on this, relatively than a Porsche in Viola Purple Metallic or some equally lovely shade. For $59,000 on high of the CT5-V Blackwing’s base worth, is Curated by Cadillac actually well worth the expense?
