Speaker 1: Pushkin. This episode is sponsored by Cadillac. Okay, what we
Speaker 1: got is we got one of these massive wheelies, the
Speaker 1: kind that is like three x the size of the
Speaker 1: one you put an overhead. Definitely can't. You can't carry
Speaker 1: this off. You can't carry that. We got two standard
Speaker 1: sized wheelies. We got a car seat, car seat bottom.
Speaker 1: We got a stroller, we got two backpacks, whole bunch
Speaker 1: of audio recording, a bunch of audio equipment. This is
Speaker 1: just warming up. Now, we're not putting down the rear seats.
Speaker 1: I'm in New York's Hudson Valley with my producers, Jacob
Speaker 1: and Joey, who are helping me load the trunk of
Speaker 1: an suv with all the luggage, car seats, and kid
Speaker 1: gear i can find. We're calling this the helicopter parent test.
Speaker 1: In the standard helicopter twenty first century universe. This is
Speaker 1: what an over involved set of parents would take on
Speaker 1: a weekend vacation, maybe a day trip, although you know,
Speaker 1: realistically you could last for several weeks with about stuff
Speaker 1: you got here. Not long before this day, upstate, we
Speaker 1: got a call a Pushkin HQ, an offer to preview
Speaker 1: the brand new all electric suv that comes on the
Speaker 1: market next year, the lead model in GM's pivot to electrification.
Speaker 1: I'm Malcolm Globble and you're listening to the second of
Speaker 1: two very special episodes for revisionist history listeners. Join me
Speaker 1: and a few friends as we embark on an all
Speaker 1: electric road trip. The helicopter parent test was the start
Speaker 1: of our day. In the Cadillac lyric, We've been favored
Speaker 1: by one of those epically beautiful fall days, leaves turning
Speaker 1: sun glinting, a cool, hushed breeze, sliding over the mountains.
Speaker 1: We're putting the lyric through its paces, ended overwhelmingly past
Speaker 1: the first test. This suv is cavernous enough to comfortably
Speaker 1: hold kids, parents, maybe even grandparents, plus all the gear
Speaker 1: necessary for an obsessive twenty first century parent like me
Speaker 1: to keep their kid happy for at least a day.
Speaker 1: Even Cadillac's chief marketing officer and Melissa Grady, can relate
Speaker 1: to driving a jam packed vehicle, which is where the
Speaker 1: rear camera mirror really comes in handy. I'm a balloon person,
Speaker 1: so if I'm going to a party, I'll have a
Speaker 1: lot of balloons in the back of my car. Or
Speaker 1: if you are transporting I've done a lot of remodeling lately,
Speaker 1: so when you're transporting a lot of goods in the
Speaker 1: back of your vehicle or tile, that camera just really
Speaker 1: works to help to see what's behind you. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the map as well. That map is just it's great.
Speaker 1: Not only doesn't have all the full navigation functionality, but
Speaker 1: it's very easy to plot out your route and put
Speaker 1: the charging stations in. Next up, a delicate bit of
Speaker 1: driving involving my daughter at a high stakes moment in
Speaker 1: every toddler's day naptime speed. We strapped her into a
Speaker 1: car seat to find out if the lyric was quite
Speaker 1: enough to put her to sleep. Speedy, Okay, Okay, clearly
Speaker 1: this is a hugely demanding test speed. It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I think we should drive. She's gonna be fine. I
Speaker 1: think she just once she's she's getting a little used
Speaker 1: to um speeding snow experience. You're in a car. Tears
Speaker 1: is not the appropriate response to being in a luxhietomobile.
Speaker 1: So hush, baby, don't get car sick. Daddy's gonna buy
Speaker 1: you a Cadillac leer Rick. Okay one, two three, little baby,
Speaker 1: don't get get car. Sick, Daddy's gonna buy you Cadillac
Speaker 1: lyric Speedy, do you ever think you say? I think
Speaker 1: she's fine asleep. I sense the I sense the quietude
Speaker 1: that pretends a deep and dreamless sleep. He tuck Speedy
Speaker 1: back to our crib and set out once more over
Speaker 1: to my friend Dan's place. He owns the storage and
Speaker 1: maintenance garage where every serious gearhead in the area keeps
Speaker 1: their pride and joy the car too nice and too
Speaker 1: precious to keep it home, such as Dan's immaculate vintage Cadillac.
Speaker 1: This is a nineteen sixty three Coop Deville. This has
Speaker 1: forty one thousand original miles. Yeah, original interior. It's suited
Speaker 1: with a three ninety cubic inch engine, so they all
Speaker 1: had in sixty three. This is Basildian green paint, and
Speaker 1: of course the correct one inch white wall, or else
Speaker 1: you get in big trouble with the Cadillac community if
Speaker 1: you don't have the right white wall. Yeah. Time for
Speaker 1: what we call the heritage test. Can the lyric win
Speaker 1: over a diehard Caddy enthusiast who thinks the last fifty
Speaker 1: years have all been downhill for the automobile business. We
Speaker 1: lined up Dan's old school Caddy in a parking lot
Speaker 1: next to our lyric. Modernist meet postmodernist. It's funny how
Speaker 1: much this kind of linear dash of the lyric still
Speaker 1: kind of quotes the classic short Cadillac dash. Yeah jewelry
Speaker 1: like in a way, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: surprisingly similar. Our idea was to run a classic experiment
Speaker 1: control versus treatment condition to cars run in succession over
Speaker 1: exactly the same route we started in Dan's classic Coupe Deville.
Speaker 1: I've done the caddy bug right now, as they say,
Speaker 1: And what is it you love about them? It's like
Speaker 1: putting on a like a tailored suit. The smoothness of
Speaker 1: this car for nineteen sixty three or any of the
Speaker 1: cadillacts of that error are just you know, above the rest,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, it really takes you back in time
Speaker 1: driving this car, this thing like it feels like we're
Speaker 1: gliding down the road in some giant ocean liner exactly.
Speaker 1: And this is you know, this is how people traveled
Speaker 1: back then, you know, when they got four or five
Speaker 1: people in the car with the big trunk and the
Speaker 1: suitcases in the back and you know, taking a two
Speaker 1: hour trip to say, you know, from the city to
Speaker 1: the Adirondacks, and that was that was the big trip
Speaker 1: of the summer. Then we get back and we turned
Speaker 1: to Dan and say, all right, now we drive the
Speaker 1: same route, only this time in the lyric. He's a
Speaker 1: bit skeptical at first. Dan need's gastling around to feel happy.
Speaker 1: So always bizarre to get into a car and not
Speaker 1: here an engine. But there is a nice sing if
Speaker 1: you will to this car. Would you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like how conceptually it's the it's a modern version of
Speaker 1: the exact experience. We just sound it good. It has
Speaker 1: that feel of, you know, putting that tailored suit on.
Speaker 1: It's got that you know, it's just Cadillacs always have this.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this extra excellence feel when you're
Speaker 1: driving it, just you know, it has this feel. Yeah, unhurried,
Speaker 1: We're all gonna be fine, right, That's all I think.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It doesn't. I'm in the cat, I'm in
Speaker 1: the car. That's great. With Dan gushing over the look
Speaker 1: of our lyric, I'm reminded of something Melissa Grady mentioned
Speaker 1: in our chat earlier. Yeah, I think, um, the end
Speaker 1: design is so much better at articulating this than I am.
Speaker 1: But there are definitely cueues taken from the past. Really,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the interior detailing that the
Speaker 1: book nature using all the best materials. So I think
Speaker 1: when we look at returning Cadillac to honestly like the
Speaker 1: standard of the world, you'll see that as you as
Speaker 1: you look at the older Cadillacs. What's next? What Cadillac
Speaker 1: can we what can we expect from Cadillac. So I
Speaker 1: can't give the details, but I can tell you next
Speaker 1: year is going to be very exciting for Cadillac. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm exciting on more than one front. So come on,
Speaker 1: you can't even give us a come on, listen, just
Speaker 1: a hint, come on, just a hint. Well, that's enough
Speaker 1: fun for the day. Time to head home to the family.
Speaker 1: In the case you're wondering, my daughter back home, fast asleep. Hush,
Speaker 1: little baby, don't get get sick. Daddy's gonna buy you
Speaker 1: Cadillac Lyric twenty twenty three Lyric orders are full. Go
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Speaker 1: model year twenty four to be among the first to
Speaker 1: order a model year twenty four when available. Safety or
Speaker 1: driver assistant features are no substitute for the driver's responsibility
Speaker 1: to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. Read the
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Speaker 1: This episode was produced by Jacob Smith and Joey Fish.
Speaker 1: Ground Our editor is Julia Barton, Engineering by Nina Lawrence
Speaker 1: and mastering by Sarah Bugaire. Special thanks to Melissa Gradio
Speaker 1: Cadillac and carly Megliori. I'm Malcolm Glappo.