The Cadillac Lyriq Is Now Available as a Hearse, Which Honestly Makes Perfect Sense
For most people, the last car they’ll ever ride in is a Cadillac. Now it’ll be electric.
GM is officially supplying the rear-wheel-drive Lyriq platform to coachbuilders for funeral use. Florida-based Wolf Coach Builders is already offering two versions: the Flagship Legacy, with a tall classic roofline, and the Panorama, with a glass rear section so your final journey has a view. The program continues a Cadillac tradition stretching back to the 1950s, when the brand supplied commercial chassis to coachbuilders for both hearses and ambulances. One of those, a 1959 Miller-Meteor Duplex, became the Ecto-1. So the lineage is genuinely iconic.
As for what you get: the Lyriq hearse comes in rear-wheel-drive only, roughly aligned with Luxury and Sport trim levels, and includes the SkyGlass panoramic roof as standard. That last part is notable. The SkyGlass is standard on exactly one other Lyriq in the lineup: the Lyriq-V. So the deceased will be riding in more natural light than most living buyers.
What you don’t get: Super Cruise, active noise cancellation, blind-spot assist, rear cross-traffic braking, or reverse automatic braking. Cadillac has apparently decided that the person in the back won’t need any of those. They are correct.
The higher-capacity 19.2 kW onboard charger is also unavailable, because a hearse doesn’t exactly need fast charging. These vehicles do low mileage over long years of service. Silent operation, low maintenance, dignified presentation.
An EV is genuinely one of the better powertrains for this job, which is either funny or profound depending on how you look at it.
For years, certain people have insisted they’d accept an EV over their dead body. Cadillac has found a way to honor that commitment.
Either way, the future arrives quietly.