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Acura took the wraps off of its fully-redesigned 2019 RDX at the Detroit Auto Show on Monday, revealing a car that aims to inject even more turbocharged, fashion-forward pragmatism to the ever-lucrative, largely-turbocharged, fashionably pragmatic segment that is luxury compact crossovers.
As the first Acura wholly designed with the pentagonal-grilled Precision Concept in mind (in contrast with the mid-cycle nose jobs given to the current MDX, TLX, and RLX), the new RDX is wider, longer, and less overhang-y than the car it replaces. Like a freshly-pressed button-up shirt, Acura’s overhauled mall crawler looks adequately handsome and by modern standards, conservative. For buyers who not-so-secretly wish they were behind the wheel of an Integra instead, a sportier looking A-Spec trim will be available for the new RDX as well as every “core” Acura model from here on out.
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Sitting on a new, stiffer platform built exclusively for Acuras—no hidden Honda bones here—the third-generation RDX will be powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter matched to a 10-speed automatic transmission. As power figures have yet to be released, an undisclosed amount of power will be sent to all four wheels via the company’s torque-vectoring, Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive system for handling that Acura hopes drivers will patently deem as super.
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Speaking of super, sitting smack dab in the center of the RDX’s center console is an NSX-inspired drive mode selection knob that lets the driver (or any passengers with little sense of boundaries) switch between Sport, Sport+, Comfort, and Snow. Surrounding said knob is a cabin that looks well luxurious, features real leather, aluminum, and wood, and boasts what is apparently the biggest panoramic moonroof in its class.
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On the tech side of things, Acura is touting its new True Touchpad Interface, a Lexus-style trackpad that maps the position of your finger one-to-one onto the 10.2-inch, Android-based screen it controls. Allowing for the screen to be placed high and in the driver’s natural line of sight, the system supposedly takes touchscreens and more remote-based infotainment solutions and offers the best of both worlds.
To be built in East Liberty, Ohio, the 2019 Acura RDX will hit dealerships mid-2018 and is expected to start in the mid-to-high $30,000 range.