Cadillac Announces Pricey Custom Paint Option for the 2026 CT5-V Blackwing
Many premium and high-end automakers will build a car in any color you can think of, including wild custom color-match requests. Cadillac recently joined that club with the ultra-premium Celestiq, but it’s now extending custom paints to the CT5-V Blackwing for 2026.
Curated by Cadillac for the 2026 CT5-V Blackwing offers more than 160 premium paint colors and gives buyers access to an expanded range of interior colors and materials. The company said buyers have millions of color combinations to choose from.
Beyond customizing the vehicle, Curated by Cadillac brings some elements of the Celestiq experience. Customers have access to a dedicated Cadillac concierge throughout the process, and the customized Blackwings will be hand-built at the Artisan Center in Warren, Michigan, where the Celestiq is produced.
The custom work doesn’t change the CT5-V Blackwing’s powertrain. It retains the powerful supercharged 6.2-liter V8, making 668 horsepower and 659 pound-feet of torque as the standard car. A six-speed manual or ten-speed automatic transmission is available.
As you might imagine, Curated by Cadillac isn’t cheap. The standard CT5-V Blackwing starts at around $100,000 ($105,000 with an automatic), but the customized cars start at around $158,000 before taxes and dealer fees. Buyers in the U.S. and Canada have access to the program, and the cars are expected to enter production sometime in the middle of next year.
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Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.
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I miss ordering a car with exactly what you want on it. Used to be the norm. Last new car for me was 1977, took 6 weeks to get it, but was worth it.
If I give them another $2,000 on top of that will they paint that stupid DLO fail body color for me? Can't really say for sure whether it will help, but what's another couple grand more to try?