2025 Cadillac CT5 Up Close: Be Happy It’s Still Here
Look, we all know sedans aren’t long for this world. GM, Cadillac’s parent company, has been steadily phasing them out for a while now for most of its brands. Buick doesn’t have any anymore, Chevy’s down to just the Malibu (and not for long), and Cadillac has three: the CT4, CT5 and upcoming $300,000-plus Celestiq ultra-luxury electric vehicle. But instead of just dropping its sedans like the rest of GM’s brands, Cadillac saw fit to refresh one of them, the CT5, with some useful upgrades and subtle styling improvements.
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The CT5 might not be around much longer, who knows. But we’ll rejoice that it’s here now and still has Cadillac’s attention. The updates the brand has made for the 2025 model year make what is already an outstanding sedan even more user-friendly, and that should be celebrated.
Catching Up With the Rest of the Lineup
First, there’s the styling, which gets a redo to give the CT5’s face more of a cohesive look with the rest of Cadillac’s changing lineup. Seeing as how everything new to the brand seems to be on the electric side of the aisle, the big grille that’s not necessary on its EV brothers actually does seem to serve a purpose here. But flanked as it is by new headlight designs that retain the traditional Cadillac light-pipe LED running lights, the new grille looks good on the CT5 — maybe even better than how the new designs look on SUVs like the Lyriq or Escalade IQ EV.
The big news is inside, however, where the dashboard gets a complete refresh to bring it in line with other Cadillac interiors. The new dash features a single glass-pane display that sweeps across the dashtop and incorporates both the gauge cluster and multimedia screen. It’s resplendent in 9K resolution, making for super crisp images and slick-looking displays. The new Google operating system is now present here, too, so if you have an Android device, you’ll feel right at home integrating everything into your techy ecosystem; if you have an Apple device, GM is still allowing CarPlay to be used for the time being, as it hasn’t phased that out yet (but it plans to with a switch to EV platforms in the next few years).
Since the CT5’s powertrains are completely carried over and received no attention, there’s no need to mention them aside to say just that, and that they still are excellent.
The moral of the story with the new 2025 Cadillac CT5 is to enjoy it while you can. Enjoy having a sedan while sedans are still available, enjoy Apple CarPlay in a GM product while it’s still offered, and enjoy not being forced to buy an SUV if you’re interested in a Cadillac — because who knows for how much longer you’ll be able to.
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