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2024 Acura TLX Type S Review: Speed Isn’t The Selling Point

The latest-generation TLX was already a good-looking automotive, with arguably among the best implementations of Acura’s household fascia within the present lineup. Wide, low, and glossy, it is a sports activities sedan aesthetic of the old-school — in right now’s age of outlandish grilles, for-the-sake-of-it bodywork slashes, and haphazard proportions, that counts as excessive reward. Falling into an unplanned convoy behind an A-Spec model, it was clear that Acura’s design language holds up properly.

The Type S solely builds on that sturdy begin. Fettled for the 2024 mannequin 12 months since we first drove the automotive in 2021, it positive factors diamond pentagon grill mesh, a brand new entrance splitter, new rear diffuser and decklid spoiler, and outsized quad exhausts. 20-inch split-spoke wheels with a black end are normal, too, and look simply grand in opposition to this Urban Gray Pearl paintwork (unique to the TLX A-Spec and Type S trims). 

If you feel a bit extra showy, Acura gives blue and “Tiger Eye” orange colours, in addition to gold-painted wheels, however a metallic pink on the paint record would not go amiss.

2024 Acura TLX Type S front grilleChris Davies/SlashGear

The result’s purposeful however not polarizing, and I believe the TLX Type S will age extra gracefully than, say, a few of its opponents from BMW.

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2024 Acura MDX Drops Laptop-Like Touchpad For Conventional Touchscreen

As a brand new 12 months dawns, Acura’s dad or mum firm Honda has a powerful outlook for 2024. The firm plans to announce a number of new fashions and present automobiles are getting updates. The Acura MDX is a kind of autos. A facelift coming this 12 months won’t solely give the crossover some new physique panels, however Acura’s touchpad-based infotainment system is on its manner out, too.

The system works much like a laptop computer. A click on on a sure level on the pad corresponds to a click on on that very same location on the infotainment display. Once you get used to it, it isn’t a foul system, however utilizing your finger instantly on a display is finally a greater compromise, particularly when the automotive is operating third-party software program like Android Auto or Apple AutomobilePlay. Acura has doubtless realized this, and now the MDX is dropping the pad.

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Other Acura fashions have already ditched the system. The new Integra has a touchscreen, for example, as does the upcoming all-electric ZDX. In its product outlook, Honda additionally stated that there is a new entry-level Acura crossover on the way in which. That will doubtlessly have a touchscreen, too.

In dialog with Motor1, an Acura spokesperson declined to touch upon whether or not or not all future autos from the corporate can be ditching the touchpad, however the writing is on the wall. All of the automaker’s newest fashions don’t have it, which makes it affordable to imagine that given the chance—a facelift within the case of the MDX—Acura will dispose of it.

Other modifications to the MDX for 2024 embrace a brand new premium audio system from Bang and Olufsen, new driver help options, and Google built-in software program that permits the driving force to seamlessly use options like Maps, Assistant, and the Play Store with out having to hyperlink their cellphone. The automaker didn’t present an actual launch date for the brand new up to date MDX, although we suspect it will hit dealerships by springtime.