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It's an all-too-common problem: You person $158,000 burning a spread successful your pocket, and a burning desire for a car that's not for illustration different cars. You want thing that's yours, thing unique. Cadillac now has nan reply for you. The institution conscionable introduced Curated by Cadillac, a bespoke programme for nan 2026 CT5-V Blackwing that promises to move your briefcase afloat of rate into a unique, hand-painted Cadillac pinch your prime of typical interior and exterior colors. Arguably nan champion Cadillac successful nan lineup, done up successful your favourite colors — what's not to like?
Curated by Cadillac is simply a neat concept, but it has an issue: The competition. Automakers are increasingly offering custom jobs for nan fabulously wealthy. Cadillac is nan latest, but Porsche has agelong offered its Paint to Sample program for civilization exterior colors — for little money, too. Cadillac offers "more than 160" exterior colors for the $59,000 Curated upcharge, while Porsche's base-tier PTS curen asks just $13,620 to use "more than 190" colors to a comparably base-priced Taycan. If you want Porsche to create a one-off colour conscionable for you, aliases based connected a overgarment sample, that'll beryllium $31,100.
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Now, of course, nan Cadillac package offers much than conscionable hand-applied exterior paint. There's besides a number of exclusive interior options, which Cadillac describes arsenic "an expanded action of colors and materials that tin beryllium mixed and matched successful millions of different combinations to present an interior situation arsenic individual and unsocial arsenic each client." The automaker hasn't yet specified what those options are, but hopefully location are immoderate chaotic leather colors included. Whether those interior colors are worthy nan $45,380 that nan Curated by Cadillac programme costs complete Porsche's PTS, though, is up to nan purchaser — that overmuch rate buys you a batch of deviated leather retired of Stuttgart.
Curated by Cadillac is simply a neat concept. I'm ever excited erstwhile automakers commencement adding colors to their lineups, and I'll beryllium crossing my fingers that immoderate wildly-colored CT5-V Blackwings commencement showing up connected Facebook Marketplace successful my value scope successful a fewer decades. I conscionable can't thief but wonderment whether nan group pinch $158,000 to pain connected a car are really going to walk it connected this, alternatively than a Porsche successful Viola Purple Metallic aliases immoderate likewise beautiful shade. For $59,000 connected apical of nan CT5-V Blackwing's guidelines price, is Curated by Cadillac really worthy nan expense?