The Cadillac LYRIQ: Malcolm Gladwell meets an Electric Icon - Part Two

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In part two of our special series with Cadillac, we test whether the all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ can keep up with the demands of a 21st-century helicopter parent, put a baby to sleep, and impress a collector of immaculate old-school Caddies. Join Malcolm on a test ride like you’ve never been on before. Part two of two.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Cadillac.
0:07.0	Okay, what we got is we got one of these massive wheelies, the kind that is like three
0:19.5	exercises of the one you put it overhead.
0:21.8	Definitely can, you can't carry this on.
0:23.5	You can't carry that on.
0:24.5	We got two standard science wheelies.
0:28.4	We got a car seat, a car seat bottom.
0:31.9	We got a stroller.
0:33.2	We got two backpacks.
0:35.0	A whole bunch of audio recording.
0:36.4	A bunch of audio equipment.
0:38.2	This is just warming up.
0:39.2	Now we're not putting down the rear seats.
0:42.7	I'm in New York's Hudson Valley with my producers Jacob and Joey, who are helping me load
0:47.5	the trunk of an SUV with all the luggage, car seats, and kid gear I can find.
0:53.8	We're calling this the helicopter parent test.
0:57.4	In the standard helicopter 21st century universe, this is what an over involved set of parents
1:03.7	would take on a weekend vacation.
1:06.3	Maybe a day trip.
1:08.3	Although realistically you could last for several weeks with a band of something out
1:11.5	here.
1:14.1	Not long before this day upstate, we got a call of push in HQ.
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