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Car and Driver
7 hours ago
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
Driven: 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V Dials It Up Without a Sound
Yes, the 2026 Lyriq-V is the quickest Cadillac ever, according to the brand—quicker to 60 mph than the rip-roaring, bombastic, furious-sounding CT5-V Blackwing sports sedan. And yet, here we are on a stretch of tarmac in a back lot at the Tacoma Dome, laying down 60-mph sprints in seemingly endless supply. There is only the slightest scramble of the nearly 6000-pound electric SUV's front tires—no smoky burnouts here—and only a muted whoosh and whine you might not pick up over ambient traffic noise. At the risk of sounding blasé, what more is there? Fortunately, we can report that the Lyriq-V is much more than another prestige-badged three-second chiropractic adjustment. The latest addition to Cadillac's V-Series stable carries forward all we like about the Lyriq and makes the whole package more athletic. View Photos Cadillac Far across the lot, at a coned-off autocross course, we do a double-press of the red V button on the steering-wheel hub, which calls up Competitive mode and unlocks the powertrain's full 615-hp, 650-lb-ft output. (Power can be bumped up on its own too, without the additional handling benefits.) Comp mode dials in the settings for top performance and is quicker to limit front motor output at corner entry (via understeer), yet it allows more rear motor output on exit (and limits inside-corner wheelspin). Keep your right foot buried, and it'll rotate like a sheared bolt head. While running a vehicle this bulky on an autocross hot lap felt rather ridiculous, it underscored the point that there's fun to be had here—and that the combination of a quicker steering rack and a retuned suspension pay dynamic dividends. view exterior photos Bengt Halvorson | Car and Driver Lyriq-V Gears Down for More Without the powertrain's full output unlocked, the Lyriq-V makes the same 515 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque as other dual-motor Lyriqs. But even then, acceleration is quicker off the bat because Cadillac dug into GM's history books for an old muscle-car trick—a deeper reduction ratio at both axles versus non-V models. After our parking-lot shenanigans end, we head out into Seattle traffic and experience some of the most pitchy, heaving back roads the metro area has to offer. It emphasizes that the Lyriq-V isn't just quicker than the Lyriq, but also more controllable. The V's quicker steering doesn't feel any less confident on-center; if anything, it's probably what this EV family should have shipped with from the start. One decision the Lyriq's team got right from the get-go was skipping air suspension. It's still not here, by the way, and we're not exactly yearning for it (see our thoughts on the related Acura ZDX Type S). What makes the Lyriq-V feel much more buttoned down on those heaving back roads, without adding much (if any) harshness, are the Sachs four-corner adaptive dampers. Relying on solenoid-controlled valving, they deliver a wider range of damping (especially rebound damping, in this hefty SUV's case) than the magnetorheological damping used elsewhere in GM's performance lineup. Cadillac also stiffened the springs, mounts, anti-roll bars—pretty much every major suspension-related bit, front and rear. view interior Photos Cadillac Braking is more capable too. The Lyriq-V gets unique six-piston Brembo calipers and 15.4-inch rotors up front, while the single-piston, 13.6-inch setup in back is shared with other Lyriqs. An optional non-coated rotor with a metallic lining trades off a little noise for improved performance and heat resistance, GM claims. Sticky, quiet V-rated Continental PremiumContact 6 summer performance tires (275/40R-22 front and rear) are included, although Michelin all-seasons can be subbed in. "Isolated precision" is the term Cadillac engineers used to sum how its vehicles are tuned, with V-Series models like the Lyriq-V getting more of an emphasis on precision. According to Alex Doss, the engineer in charge of performance integration, it was especially important to establish equal focus on both halves in the Lyriq-V. "It's comfortable and quiet enough that you may not even realize the V until you choose to drive the vehicle as such," he told us. And he's right; under light loads, the Lyriq-V does feel like a luxury car. But the Lyriq-V is perhaps a little too quiet at the moment—it's missing its sound profile. For 2026, in addition to in-cabin sound supplementation, all Lyriq-Vs (and most other Lyriq trims) are being fitted with downward-facing external speakers set to generate a "performance sound" in V-Mode. But the sound was not finalized in time for our drive, so for the time being, V-Mode was essentially the same as Stealth mode—dead silent at full tilt, like a Tesla. Cadillac promises that the final sound file will be delivered via over-the-air update later this year, covering the Lyriq-Vs that leave the factory before everything gets finalized. view interior Photos Bengt Halvorson | Car and Driver Keeping Its Cool Back to propulsion, outside of the reduction ratios introducing a lot more wheel torque and the stronger half-shafts to cope with it, the Lyriq-V's power-management changes are minimal. From the permanent-magnet motors and the inverters to the 102-kWh battery pack and its large-format lithium-ion pouch cells, the whole shebang is broadly shared with and carried over from other Lyriqs. Instead of throwing a bunch of new parts into the equation, engineers instead targeted temperatures—specifically, keeping the battery a few degrees cooler in most situations to keep the Lyriq-V ready to deliver max power and torque for longer. Cooling hardware in all 2026 Lyriqs gets a flow boost, but in the V, engineers also advanced the trigger point for more active cooling of the battery in performance driving. view interior Photos Cadillac Altogether, the V's higher output and more proactive cooling don't have a huge effect on the Lyriq's efficiency and range. Cadillac estimates an EPA range rating of 285 miles, 18 miles below the federal estimate for the least efficient 2025 Lyriq. Fast-charging also remains in line with other Lyriqs, meaning a peak of around 190 kilowatts. According to Cadillac, that means 10 minutes of charging can net up to 75 miles of range, or the Lyriq-V can get from a "low state of charge" to 80 percent in about 41 minutes (with similar results on Tesla Supercharger hardware with an adapter). Yup, there's no NACS port here yet; but there will be for the smaller Optiq-V. The Lyriq-V has no mechanical disconnect for the motors, so it operates in something close to rear-wheel drive in steady-state highway driving, while regenerative braking favors the front motor. The 2026 Lyriq-V starts at $80,090, about 20 grand higher than a base Lyriq. Our first-drive example added the $5700 Carbon Fiber package, plus some flashy red paint, red-painted brake calipers, and the performance brake lining for an out-the-door total of $87,610. Premium versions start $5200 higher and step up to a 19.2-kW onboard charger (versus the standard 11.5 kilowatts), plus nappa leather upholstery and a panoramic sunroof. All versions include Super Cruise. view interior Photos Cadillac The Lyriq-V echoes the role of a stealth performance vehicle. If you don't catch the V badging, there are other signals: unique dark 22-inch wheel design and a black roof, with body-color wheel-opening moldings—plus the carbon-fiber lower-body trim. Inside, it's the same quiet, comfortable, richly trimmed Lyriq we've come to appreciate. The Lyriq-V includes a sharp head-up display and a 23-speaker AKG Studio sound with Dolby Atmos and active noise cancellation. The cabin has the same 33-inch wrap-across screen as other Lyriq models, with touchscreen areas at the far left for some functions and at the center of the vehicle for infotainment. And it still has Apple CarPlay! view exterior photos Bengt Halvorson | Car and Driver No matter what it will eventually sound like, the Lyriq-V is a solid performance package. It doesn't lose much range, it doesn't drive heavier like performance versions of the BMW iX and Mercedes-Benz EQE, and it doesn't have a disappointing cabin like the Q6 e-tron. It's simply a better version of the model it's based on—just about the best foundation you can ask for. Specifications Specifications 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V Vehicle Type: front- and rear-motor, all-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door wagon PRICE Base: $80,090 POWERTRAIN Front Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC Rear Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC Combined Power: 615 hp Combined Torque: 650 lb-ft Battery Pack: liquid-cooled lithium-ion, 102 kWh Onboard Charger: 11.5 or 19.2 kW Peak DC Fast-Charge Rate: 190 kW Transmissions, F/R: direct-drive DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 121.8 in Length: 197.0 in Width: 77.8 in Height: 64.3 in Passenger Volume, F/R: 58/51 ft3 Cargo Volume, Behind F/R: 61/28 ft3 Curb Weight (C/D est): 6000 lb PERFORMANCE (C/D EST) 60 mph: 3.4 sec 100 mph: 8.5 sec 1/4-Mile: 12.0 sec Top Speed: 130 mph EPA FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST) Combined/City/Highway: 83/90/75 MPGe Range: 285 mi
Hindustan Times
9 hours ago
- Automotive
- Hindustan Times
Ducati Panigale V4 awarded 2025 Red Dot Design Award. Take a look…
The Ducati Panigale V4 has been awarded the Red Dot Design Award for 2025. The Red Dot Design Award is one of the world's largest design competitions, which is divided into three disciplines: Product Design, Brands & Communication Design and Design Concept. The judges of the competition mentioned, 'The Panigale V4 impresses with a precise design language that successfully combines aerodynamic functionality and stylistic clarity." The 2025 Ducati Panigale V4 went on sale in the Indian market in March 2025. It gets two variants, the Standard and the S. Priced at ₹29.99 lakh and ₹36.50 lakh respectively (both ex-showroom), the motorcycles are sold in India through the CBU route. What cosmetic updates are featured on the 2025 Ducati Panigale V4? Ducati states that the new Panigale V4 draws inspiration from the 916 Panigale. Consequently, some lines from the 916 have been carried over to the seventh generation of Panigale. The bodywork has been completely redesigned, now including winglets and a new diamond-shaped fuel tank. The motorcycle also sports a new set of slimmer LED headlamps. Also Read : New-gen Ducati Monster with V2 engine spied testing in Europe: What you should know What distinguishes the Ducati Panigale V4 S from the Standard version? The primary difference lies in the suspension components. The Standard model features fully adjustable Showa BPF 43 mm forks at the front and a fully adjustable Sachs shock at the rear. In contrast, the S trim is equipped with Ohlins NPX forks upfront and Ohlins TTX36 at the rear. Additionally, the two bikes differ in their forged aluminium wheels, which help reduce weight; the V4 S is 4 kg lighter, weighing 187 kg. What are the modifications to the chassis of the 2025 Ducati Panigale V4? The frame and swingarm have been redesigned, which has reduced lateral stiffness. Purists may be disappointed that the single-piece swingarm has been replaced with a new double-sided hollow unit. Ducati claims this new swingarm provides better stability, mechanical grip, and traction. Also Read : Ducati Scrambler 1100 discontinued globally, goes off sale in India What braking hardware is used on the Ducati Panigale V4? The Panigale V4 is equipped with Brembo's Hypure callipers, regarded as some of the best in the industry. They are lighter, feature a new pad retention system, and have improved ventilation. Customers can also opt for callipers in various colours, including red, yellow, black, and gold. What powers the new Ducati Panigale V4? It is powered by a 1,103 cc Desmosedici Stradale V4 engine that is now Euro5+ compliant, producing 213 bhp at 13,500 rpm and 120 Nm at 11,250 rpm. The engine is paired with a six-speed gearbox with a standard quickshifter. Check out Upcoming Bikes In India. First Published Date:
Time Out
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Culture Edit: Art, memory and reverence of soft vengeance
'People go to an exhibition expecting to be bored, to be quite candid, and they're delighted when it's not,' Albie Sachs tells me in a near-whisper, leaning in during the opening of Spring Is Rebellious, now on at Zeitz MOCAA. 'And I think this is a total surprise,' he adds with a glint of mischief. Listening to Sachs reflect on a turbulent period in Southern Africa's history, and his own life as an activist, is quite something. There's a radical optimism in it. Not the hollow kind peddled by revivalists, but something more complex: a joy hard-won, defiant, and elevating. The curatorial approach, led by Dr Phokeng Setai, resists the trap of monumentalising one man (though Sachs, by all accounts, deserves it). Instead, it becomes its own rebellion against the singular hero narrative. And yet Sachs, with his signature blend of humility, humour, and piercing intellect, still anchors the experience. His personal collection, along with that of the Constitution Collection (commissioned and curated under his watch), shapes the experience. His story, including surviving a car bomb planted by apartheid security forces that cost him an arm and the sight in one eye, is not presented as tragedy. It becomes, in his words, a testament to 'the intense joy of survival.' Yes, it's a historical exhibition and a biography - but also a deeply moving love letter to a life lived in full colour. A life of freedom fighting, legal vision, Constitutional Court judge and an unwavering belief in the transformative power of art. Curated by Setai and a team of young curators mentored by the late Koyo Kouoh - to whom the exhibition is dedicated - Spring Is Rebellious lands with remarkable subtlety. 'Africa's stories are often told through singular biographical lives. We wanted to let the art and the artists bring the complexity and layers to the narrative of this exhibition," Setai says. And they do. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out Cape Town (@ A Revolution of Feeling What emerges is not a dry litany of accolades, but an emotional architecture in what Sachs himself calls a 'big emotional palette.' 'It's very public and very private at the same time,' Sachs says. 'It's not a historical narrative. It's an emotional one.' Crucially, it never feels didactic. This is not protest art with a slogan, nor a catalogue of suffering. In his 1989 essay Preparing Ourselves for Freedom, written for an ANC cultural seminar in exile, Sachs wondered whether we had 'sufficient cultural imagination to grasp the rich texture of the free and united South Africa we have done so much to bring about.' That same question pulses through this exhibition. While Sachs' memories of Mozambique's revolution included children sculpting ephemeral art in sand under the guidance of artist Malangatana Ngwenya. It reminds that culture and creative expression were never just an accessory to struggle. It was survival itself. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zeitz MOCAA (@zeitzmocaa) The soft vengeance of refusing to become what you survived One of the most stirring elements of the exhibition is how it gives material form to Sachs's ideology of soft vengeance. Behind a velvet curtain and bathed in muted grey-blue, this quiet room in the exhibition offers a tender counterpoint to the fire of activism. Here, Sachs' voice fills the air, recounting the 1988 Maputo car bomb that nearly ended his life. But the story told isn't one of revenge. It's one of survival, healing, and what he later called soft vengeance: the quiet, radical act of choosing life, memory, and justice over hatred. Two artworks ground the space: a poignant wooden sculpture by Mozambican artist Naftal Langa, showing a couple grappling with the scars of war, and a stark photograph of Sachs in his London apartment, his amputated arm captured in mirror and shadow. It's a room of reckoning, where trauma acts as an uncomfortable truth - a wound, not hidden, but instead opening up toward something far greater. As Sachs says, justice is "refusing to become what you have survived." 'They tried to kill me, and I lost an arm,' he says with typical bluntness, 'but I lived. I got to help write our Constitution.' His vengeance is in living, not in bitterness or rage, but in beauty and joy. The show is both irreverent and serious at the same time. Archival protest posters sit beside odes to jazz and arson. Its storytelling spans exile, solitary confinement, and ultimately homecoming. And the title? Taken from a paper that sparked both debate and delight among his comrades - reminds us: Spring is rebellious, then and now. It honours not just Sachs, but the artists, activists, and everyday people whose creative resistance has shaped South Africa and the continent in unexpected, enduring ways. At 90, Sachs continues to write and inspire, offering as a living reminder that as our democracy matures, so too must our capacity to reimagine it. The revolution, he suggests, is not a moment, but a mindset needing constant renewal. 'If spring was rebellious then,' he says, 'autumn is rebellious now.'
The Star
6 days ago
- Business
- The Star
Hong Kong will play leadership role in global sustainable development: U.S. economist Jeffery Sachs
HONG KONG, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs on Thursday said that Hong Kong will play a unique leadership role in the global pursuit of achieving sustainable development by becoming a green financial center for the world. At an event hosted by the Hong Kong Association of External Friendship, Sachs said Hong Kong can leverage its robust common law framework, deep integration with the international financial and trading systems, and its partnership with other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. "The Greater Bay Area is a world-leading production, education and financial center," said the professor at Columbia University, adding that the region is unique in the world in terms of its sizable population and transportation connectivity. "The Belt and Road Initiative is my favorite foreign policy initiative in the area of sustainable development," said Sachs. Backed by the production prowess of the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong can seize opportunities provided by the Belt and Road Initiative to help finance green development projects in developing countries, he said.
RTHK
6 days ago
- Business
- RTHK
'US Unesco exit gives way to Chinese leadership'
'US Unesco exit gives way to Chinese leadership' Economist Jeffrey Sachs says Hong Kong can contribute to regional sustainable growth by utilising its role in the Greater Bay Area. Photo: RTHK A prominent US economist on Thursday said that Washington's decision to exit Unesco for the third time will allow China to play a bigger role in leading global sustainability development, while Hong Kong would also be able to grasp opportunities. The comments came after Washington earlier announced the decision to leave the UN's cultural and education agency, saying that the institution's work to "advance divisive social and cultural causes" goes against its "America First" policy. Delivering a keynote speech in Hong Kong on sustainable development, Jeffrey Sachs, an economics professor at Columbia University, said that the US exit will have consequences in the coming years. "My basic belief is that the rest of the world has to get on with it, and the rest of the world has to say, we go on for our planet, we expect you to return. "[But] I wouldn't mind if someone keeps a tally of everything the US owes that it's not paying, so that there's a bill at the end of this self-imposed isolation," he said. "I do believe that China has a unique role to play, and China has the capacity that the world needs for transformation," he added. Pointing to China's massive industrial chain, he said the nation could increase exports in areas such as solar power to emerging markets and developing nations to turbocharge the global energy transition. Separately, Sachs also noted that Hong Kong will be able to contribute to regional sustainable growth by utilising its role in the Greater Bay Area. "There are a few financial centres around the world that have the potential to play a major role in sustainable development finance, and I think Hong Kong is the best-placed of all of them," he said. "Dubai cannot do this, Singapore can't do this, because the physical investment [for such large scale projects] is going to come from China". The forum, organised by the Hong Kong Association of External Friendship, took place at the Convention and Exhibition Centre, attracting some 300 participants.
