The cabin of the Lyriq is predictably plush, with comfy massaging seats, soft-touch materials and plenty of tech, but it is a little shiny and busy in places for my tastes. Minimalist this is not.

But I do like the fact that – when I’ve got Apple CarPlay hooked up – I can just leave the screen be. My driving stuff is accessed by the wheel, and everything else I want is accessible through physical buttons.

The Lyriq is a five-seat affair and is home to some of the best ISOFIX attachment points I ever used – they're housed under these plastic flaps that make them easy to find, and easy to connect to.

However, those same ISOFIX attachment points, which are so great for baby seats, are less so for the adults actually sitting in the back. You can feel the hard plastic covers, and what feels like the bracing bar running across the backseat, beneath the cushions.

Elsewhere in the backseat, there's plenty of room for backseat riders.

We don't have an offical zero-100km/h time for the Cadillac Lyriq, but estimate it to be around seven seconds.

All Aussie Lyriqs are dual-motor affairs, with an electric motor at each axle producing a total 388kW and 610Nm, which in a car this big, and which weighs just under 2.7 tonnes, is more than enough to get the Caddy up and moving, but not enough to make it feel like a supercar. The two motors mean AWD, of course.

You can have your Cadillac Lyriq in two flavours — the Luxury or the Sport.

Cadillac says the changes between the trims largely focus on the 'aesthetic signature' rather than any major equipment differences. The Luxury is gets chrome highlights, for example, while the Sport gets a darkened design theme, including the wheels, body highlights and windows.

Both trims are otherwise identically equipped, which means 21-inch alloy wheels, full LED lighting, an electric sunroof, an auto opening boot and a touch-to-open charging port.

Inside, there’s a 33-inch digital dash, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless device charging, a thumping 19-speaker AKG stereo and USB connection points galore.

The leather-wrapped front seats have heating, ventilation, a massage function, there’s heating and cooling for the window seats in the back, tri-zone climate control and there’s 126-colour ambient interior lighting.

The Lyriq is equipped with a 102kWh lithium-ion NCMA battery, which delivers 530km on the combined cycle. Energy consumption is a claimed 22.5kWh per 100km on the combined cycle.