The American luxury crossover is reaching Japan initially in the form of the special Cadillac XT5 First Limited Edition, with availability restricted to just 20 examples.


The First Limited Edition offers a choice of either pearl white or metallic black paint, with only ten to be offered in each. It also comes with special side steps and illuminated liftgate sill plate, and an interior done up in jet black with bronze carbon-fiber trim.

In other words, there's nothing particularly special about this special edition other than its restricted availability, but for 7,830,000 yen, buyers can expect to get one of the first examples off the boat. That, in case you're wondering, comes out to over US$ 69k at current exchange rates which seems like a lot when compared to the US$ 39k at which the XT5 starts back home on the other side of the Pacific.


But the special-edition is based on the top-of-the-lie Platinum model, which retails for nearly US$ 63k in America. Considering the high cost of importing foreign-made cars into Japan – especially ones with engines as (relatively) large as the XT5's 3.6-liter V6 – the US$ 6k premium doesn't actually seem like that much.