Nobody expects the Cadillac Celestiq to be an enormous vendor for the model. It’s a hand-built electrical car that prices $340,000, and it might take clients weeks or months to finalize the design. So Cadillac received’t be popping them out like Escalades.

Tony Roma, Cadillac’s chief engineer of efficiency vehicles, revealed in a latest episode of Jay Leno’s Storage that the automaker doesn’t anticipate to make greater than 250 vehicles per 12 months in the USA. “That is tremendous low quantity,” Roma instructed Leno. “We’re not saying the precise quantity, however assume extra like a whole lot, not 1000’s.”

For some context of the Celestiq’s rarity, Bugatti plans to construct simply 250 examples of the Tourbillon, its V-16-powered hybrid hypercar. 

The Celestiq is the automotive Cadillac plans to make use of to battle Rolls-Royce and Bentley—not simple targets. The automaker revealed the manufacturing model two-and-a-half years in the past, exhibiting off a modern sedan with an extended wheelbase than the three-row Escalade.

The Celestiq is a flagship for Cadillac model, with a pair of electrical motors making an estimated 650 horsepower (greater than beforehand introduced), which is able to assist inspire the 6,300-pound sedan. It’s additionally an necessary automotive for Basic Motors, using the automaker’s new Ultium structure that’s underpinning a variety of autos from the American automaker.

It has all of the luxuries you’d anticipate from a $340,000 sedan—Tremendous Cruise, air suspension, four-wheel steering, and tons of know-how. It has a four-quadrant tinting panoramic roof, a pillar-to-pillar HD show, a 38-speaker sound system, heated armrests, and extra.

The Celestiq seems to be production-ready in Leno’s video, and we rode one final 12 months. However do not anticipate to see them all over the place anytime quickly.