1 00:00:15,356 --> 00:00:15,796 Speaker 1: Pushkin. 2 00:00:20,596 --> 00:00:23,076 Speaker 2: This episode is sponsored by Cadillac. 3 00:00:23,716 --> 00:00:25,276 Speaker 1: Okay, what we got is we got one of these 4 00:00:25,316 --> 00:00:29,436 Speaker 1: massive wheelies, the kind that is like three exercise of 5 00:00:29,516 --> 00:00:30,676 Speaker 1: the one you put in overhead. 6 00:00:30,956 --> 00:00:31,556 Speaker 3: Definitely can't. 7 00:00:31,636 --> 00:00:32,436 Speaker 4: You can't carry this on. 8 00:00:32,596 --> 00:00:36,516 Speaker 1: You can't carry that. We've got two standard sized wheelies. 9 00:00:37,436 --> 00:00:41,396 Speaker 1: We got a car seat, car seat bottom. We got 10 00:00:41,396 --> 00:00:44,516 Speaker 1: a stroller, We've got two backpacks. 11 00:00:43,996 --> 00:00:45,516 Speaker 4: Whole bunch of audio recording, a. 12 00:00:45,476 --> 00:00:48,396 Speaker 1: Bunch of audio equipment. This is just warming up. Now, 13 00:00:48,396 --> 00:00:52,276 Speaker 1: we're not putting down the rear seats. I'm in New 14 00:00:52,356 --> 00:00:55,916 Speaker 1: York's Hudson Valley with my producers, Jacob and Joey, who 15 00:00:55,916 --> 00:00:58,396 Speaker 1: are helping me load the trunk of an suv with 16 00:00:58,476 --> 00:01:02,276 Speaker 1: all the luggage, car seats, and kid gear i can find. 17 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:07,396 Speaker 1: We're calling this the helicopter parent test in the standard 18 00:01:07,636 --> 00:01:10,836 Speaker 1: helicopter twenty first century year. This is what an over 19 00:01:11,316 --> 00:01:15,036 Speaker 1: involved set of parents would take on a weekend daccation 20 00:01:15,356 --> 00:01:18,756 Speaker 1: and maybe a day trip, although you know, realistically you 21 00:01:18,796 --> 00:01:20,836 Speaker 1: could last for several weeks with abound stuff. We got 22 00:01:20,836 --> 00:01:25,476 Speaker 1: here not long before this day. Upstate, we got a 23 00:01:25,516 --> 00:01:29,236 Speaker 1: call a Pushkin HQ an offer to preview the brand 24 00:01:29,276 --> 00:01:33,196 Speaker 1: new all electric SUV that comes on the market next year, 25 00:01:33,836 --> 00:01:41,196 Speaker 1: the lead model in GM's pivot to electrification. I'm Malcolm Glabelle, 26 00:01:41,196 --> 00:01:43,516 Speaker 1: and you're listening to the second of two very special 27 00:01:43,516 --> 00:01:46,756 Speaker 1: episodes for Revision as History. Listeners join me and a 28 00:01:46,756 --> 00:01:51,196 Speaker 1: few friends as we embark on an all electric road trip. 29 00:01:54,116 --> 00:01:57,276 Speaker 1: The helicopter parent test was the start of our day. 30 00:01:57,516 --> 00:02:00,356 Speaker 1: In the Cadillac lyric, We've been favored by one of 31 00:02:00,396 --> 00:02:05,516 Speaker 1: those epically beautiful fall days, leaves turning sun glinting, a cool, 32 00:02:05,916 --> 00:02:09,956 Speaker 1: hushed breeze, sliding over the mountains, putting the lyric through 33 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:14,596 Speaker 1: its paces. Ended overwhelmingly past the first test. This STUV 34 00:02:14,876 --> 00:02:21,156 Speaker 1: is cavernous enough to comfortably hold kids, parents, maybe even grandparents, 35 00:02:21,556 --> 00:02:25,076 Speaker 1: plus all the gear necessary for an obsessive twenty first 36 00:02:25,116 --> 00:02:28,836 Speaker 1: century parent like me to keep their kid happy for 37 00:02:28,836 --> 00:02:32,716 Speaker 1: at least a day. Even Cadillac's Chief marketing Officer, Melissa 38 00:02:32,756 --> 00:02:36,436 Speaker 1: Grady can relate to driving a jam packed vehicle, which 39 00:02:36,476 --> 00:02:39,436 Speaker 1: is where the rear camera mirror really comes in handy. 40 00:02:39,876 --> 00:02:42,156 Speaker 3: I'm a balloon person, so if I'm going to a party, 41 00:02:42,356 --> 00:02:44,076 Speaker 3: I'll have a lot of balloons in the back of 42 00:02:44,116 --> 00:02:47,876 Speaker 3: my car. Or if you are transporting I've done a 43 00:02:47,916 --> 00:02:51,076 Speaker 3: lot of remodeling lately, so when you're transporting a lot 44 00:02:51,116 --> 00:02:53,836 Speaker 3: of goods in the back of your vehicle or tile, 45 00:02:54,756 --> 00:02:55,676 Speaker 3: that camera. 46 00:02:55,476 --> 00:02:59,436 Speaker 2: Just really works to help see what's behind you. And 47 00:02:59,636 --> 00:03:01,396 Speaker 2: you mentioned the map as well. 48 00:03:01,476 --> 00:03:04,996 Speaker 3: That map is just it's great. Not only does it 49 00:03:05,076 --> 00:03:08,996 Speaker 3: have all the full navigation functionality, but it's very easy 50 00:03:09,436 --> 00:03:12,436 Speaker 3: to plot out your route and put the charging stations in. 51 00:03:15,116 --> 00:03:18,996 Speaker 1: Next up, a delicate bit of driving involving my daughter 52 00:03:19,716 --> 00:03:24,916 Speaker 1: at a high stakes moment in every toddler's day, nap time. Speedy. 53 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:27,356 Speaker 1: We strapped her into a car seat to find out 54 00:03:27,396 --> 00:03:41,636 Speaker 1: if the Lyrics was quite enough to put her to sleep. Speedy, Okay, Okay, clearly, 55 00:03:41,876 --> 00:03:49,276 Speaker 1: this is a hugely demanding test speed. It's okay, it's okay. 56 00:03:50,676 --> 00:03:53,796 Speaker 1: I think we should drive. She's gonna be fine. I 57 00:03:53,796 --> 00:03:57,116 Speaker 1: think she just once she's she's getting a little used 58 00:03:57,116 --> 00:04:02,556 Speaker 1: to speeding this new experience you're in a car. Tears 59 00:04:02,596 --> 00:04:09,836 Speaker 1: is not the appropriate response to being in a luxury automobile. So, hush, baby, 60 00:04:10,236 --> 00:04:22,036 Speaker 1: don't get cars. Sick, Daddy's gonna buy you a Cadillac Lyric. Okay, one, two, three, Hush. 61 00:04:21,956 --> 00:04:26,556 Speaker 4: Little baby, don't get car. Sick, Daddy's gonna buy you 62 00:04:26,996 --> 00:04:30,676 Speaker 4: Cadillac lyric speeding, Do you have anything to say? 63 00:04:30,916 --> 00:04:34,756 Speaker 1: I think she's fall asleep. I sense the I sense 64 00:04:34,836 --> 00:04:42,436 Speaker 1: the quietude that pretends a deep and dreamless sleep. We 65 00:04:42,556 --> 00:04:46,076 Speaker 1: tuck Speedy back to her crip and set out once 66 00:04:46,156 --> 00:04:50,516 Speaker 1: more over to my friend Dan's place. He owns the 67 00:04:50,556 --> 00:04:54,196 Speaker 1: storage and maintenance garage where every serious gearhead in the 68 00:04:54,236 --> 00:04:57,636 Speaker 1: area keeps their pride and joy the car too nice 69 00:04:57,956 --> 00:05:01,756 Speaker 1: and too precious to keep it home, such as Dan's 70 00:05:01,996 --> 00:05:04,236 Speaker 1: immaculate vintage Cadillac. 71 00:05:05,356 --> 00:05:08,396 Speaker 5: This is a nineteen sixty three coup de Ville. This 72 00:05:08,716 --> 00:05:13,996 Speaker 5: has forty one thousand original miles. Yeah, original interior. It's 73 00:05:14,596 --> 00:05:17,796 Speaker 5: suited with a three to ninety cubic eng engine so 74 00:05:17,836 --> 00:05:22,036 Speaker 5: they all had in sixty three. This is Basildian green paint, 75 00:05:23,196 --> 00:05:25,876 Speaker 5: and of course the correct one inch white wall, or 76 00:05:25,956 --> 00:05:28,756 Speaker 5: else you get in big trouble with the Cadillac community 77 00:05:28,796 --> 00:05:31,356 Speaker 5: if you don't have the right white wall. Yeah. 78 00:05:31,476 --> 00:05:34,596 Speaker 1: Time for what we call the heritage test. Can the 79 00:05:34,676 --> 00:05:38,476 Speaker 1: lyric win over a diehard Caddy enthusiast who thinks the 80 00:05:38,516 --> 00:05:42,276 Speaker 1: last fifty years have all been downhill for the automobile business. 81 00:05:42,596 --> 00:05:44,796 Speaker 1: We lined up Dan's old school Caddy in a parking 82 00:05:44,836 --> 00:05:50,436 Speaker 1: lot next to our lyric. Modernist meet postmodernist. It's funny 83 00:05:50,436 --> 00:05:52,916 Speaker 1: how much this kind of linear dash of the lyric 84 00:05:53,316 --> 00:05:57,556 Speaker 1: still kind of quotes the classic short Cadillac dash. 85 00:05:58,196 --> 00:05:59,676 Speaker 5: Yeah jewelry like in a way. 86 00:05:59,916 --> 00:06:04,356 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's really surprisingly similar. Our idea 87 00:06:04,476 --> 00:06:08,556 Speaker 1: was to run a classic experiment control versus treatment condition 88 00:06:09,356 --> 00:06:13,956 Speaker 1: cars run in succession over exactly the same route we 89 00:06:13,996 --> 00:06:17,756 Speaker 1: started in Dan's classic Kupe Deville. 90 00:06:19,356 --> 00:06:22,036 Speaker 5: I've got the caddy bug right. 91 00:06:21,916 --> 00:06:25,156 Speaker 1: Now, as they say, and what is it you love about? 92 00:06:26,556 --> 00:06:31,396 Speaker 5: It's like putting on a like a tailored suit. The 93 00:06:31,476 --> 00:06:34,916 Speaker 5: smoothness of this car for nineteen sixty three or any 94 00:06:34,916 --> 00:06:39,516 Speaker 5: of the Cadillacs of that error are just you know, 95 00:06:39,636 --> 00:06:42,996 Speaker 5: above the rest, I believe. Yeah, it really takes you 96 00:06:43,036 --> 00:06:45,036 Speaker 5: back in time driving this car. 97 00:06:47,396 --> 00:06:51,076 Speaker 1: This thing like it feels like we're gliding down the 98 00:06:51,156 --> 00:06:52,676 Speaker 1: road in some giant. 99 00:06:52,356 --> 00:06:54,836 Speaker 5: Ocean liner exactly. And this is you know, this is 100 00:06:54,836 --> 00:06:57,956 Speaker 5: how people traveled back then. You know, they got four 101 00:06:58,036 --> 00:07:00,796 Speaker 5: or five people in the car with the big trunk 102 00:07:00,836 --> 00:07:03,316 Speaker 5: and the suitcases in the back, and you know, taking 103 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:06,436 Speaker 5: a two hour trip to say, you know, from the 104 00:07:06,476 --> 00:07:09,756 Speaker 5: city to the Adirondacks, and that was that was the 105 00:07:09,756 --> 00:07:10,996 Speaker 5: big trip of the summer. 106 00:07:12,076 --> 00:07:15,236 Speaker 1: Then we get back and we turned it down and say, 107 00:07:15,316 --> 00:07:18,196 Speaker 1: all right, now we drive the same route, only this 108 00:07:18,316 --> 00:07:21,516 Speaker 1: time in the lyric. He's a bit skeptical at first. 109 00:07:22,116 --> 00:07:23,996 Speaker 1: Dan needs gasoling around to feel happy. 110 00:07:25,036 --> 00:07:27,916 Speaker 5: So always bizarre to get into a car and not 111 00:07:28,196 --> 00:07:33,116 Speaker 5: hear an engine. But there is a nice sing if 112 00:07:33,116 --> 00:07:34,156 Speaker 5: you will to this car. 113 00:07:35,196 --> 00:07:38,836 Speaker 1: Could you see what I'm saying? Like how conceptually it's 114 00:07:39,316 --> 00:07:41,956 Speaker 1: it's a modern version of the exact experience we just. 115 00:07:43,356 --> 00:07:45,796 Speaker 5: It has that feel of, you know, putting that tailored 116 00:07:45,796 --> 00:07:49,716 Speaker 5: suit on. It's got that you know, It's just Cadillacs 117 00:07:49,756 --> 00:07:54,116 Speaker 5: always have this I don't know, this extra excellence feel 118 00:07:54,156 --> 00:07:57,876 Speaker 5: when you're driving it, just you know, it has this unrough, 119 00:07:57,956 --> 00:07:58,836 Speaker 5: floating feel. 120 00:07:58,916 --> 00:08:05,516 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm unhurry, We're all going to be fine, right, 121 00:08:05,596 --> 00:08:09,556 Speaker 1: That's okay. 122 00:08:08,596 --> 00:08:10,796 Speaker 5: It doesn't, it doesn't. I'm in, I'm in the car. 123 00:08:11,036 --> 00:08:11,516 Speaker 5: That's great. 124 00:08:14,276 --> 00:08:17,156 Speaker 1: With Dan gushing over the look of our lyric, I'm 125 00:08:17,156 --> 00:08:20,316 Speaker 1: reminded of something Melissa Grady mentioned in our chat earlier. 126 00:08:20,756 --> 00:08:25,436 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the design is so much better at 127 00:08:25,556 --> 00:08:31,116 Speaker 2: articulating this than I am. But there are definitely cues 128 00:08:31,276 --> 00:08:33,956 Speaker 2: taken from the past. Really, you know a lot of 129 00:08:33,996 --> 00:08:37,716 Speaker 2: the interior detailing that this book nature using all the 130 00:08:37,716 --> 00:08:41,276 Speaker 2: best materials. So I think when we look at returning 131 00:08:41,356 --> 00:08:45,996 Speaker 2: Cadillac to honestly like the standard of the world, you'll 132 00:08:46,036 --> 00:08:48,676 Speaker 2: see that as you as you look at the older catalacts. 133 00:08:49,396 --> 00:08:52,236 Speaker 1: What's next? What Cadillac can we what can we expect 134 00:08:52,236 --> 00:08:52,876 Speaker 1: from Cadillac. 135 00:08:53,836 --> 00:08:56,876 Speaker 2: So I can't give you details, but I can tell 136 00:08:56,916 --> 00:09:00,996 Speaker 2: you next year is going to be very exciting for Cadillac, 137 00:09:01,556 --> 00:09:03,156 Speaker 2: and exciting on more than one front. 138 00:09:03,236 --> 00:09:06,396 Speaker 1: So come on, you can't even give a say, come on, listen, 139 00:09:06,516 --> 00:09:10,276 Speaker 1: just a hint, come on, just a hint. Well, that's 140 00:09:10,396 --> 00:09:12,636 Speaker 1: enough fun for the day. Time to head home to 141 00:09:12,716 --> 00:09:16,236 Speaker 1: the family. And in case you're wondering, my daughter back home, 142 00:09:16,716 --> 00:09:18,316 Speaker 1: fast asleep, h. 143 00:09:18,796 --> 00:09:23,396 Speaker 4: Little baby, don't guitar sick dad, He's gonna buy you 144 00:09:23,836 --> 00:09:25,996 Speaker 4: Cadillac lyric Is. 145 00:09:26,716 --> 00:09:30,956 Speaker 1: Lyric Is twenty twenty three lyric orders are full. Go 146 00:09:30,996 --> 00:09:34,316 Speaker 1: to Cadillac dot com and complete a pre order from 147 00:09:34,356 --> 00:09:36,916 Speaker 1: model year twenty four to be among the first to 148 00:09:37,036 --> 00:09:41,196 Speaker 1: order a model year twenty four. When available. Safety or 149 00:09:41,276 --> 00:09:45,756 Speaker 1: driver assistant features are no substitute for the driver's responsibility 150 00:09:45,996 --> 00:09:49,236 Speaker 1: to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. Read the 151 00:09:49,316 --> 00:09:54,836 Speaker 1: vehicle's owner's manual for important feature limitations and information. Map 152 00:09:54,876 --> 00:09:59,076 Speaker 1: coverage available in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. 153 00:10:00,396 --> 00:10:03,716 Speaker 1: This episode was produced by Jacob Smith and Joey fishground 154 00:10:03,956 --> 00:10:07,396 Speaker 1: Our editor is Julia Barton, Engineering by Nina Lawrence and 155 00:10:07,516 --> 00:10:11,156 Speaker 1: mastering by Sarah Bugair. Special thanks to Melissa Grady at 156 00:10:11,196 --> 00:10:15,556 Speaker 1: Cadillac and Carl Megliore. I'm Malcolm Glappo.