2013 Acura RDX

What you see here is the redesigned 2013 Acura RDX, show, although the company is technically called the car of the 2012 Detroit auto show a prototype. "The second generation of the crossover goes on sale this spring, and is expected to clear by his predecessor, who was small, playful, sporty, and attributes that made it fun, but also came at the expense of ride quality and comfort. If the 2013 RDX relationship looks familiar, that's because they have the same basic platform as the new Honda CR-V (the latter with the RDX many previous CR-V located) is used. The RDX is still recognizable as an Acura, but the styling is more mature than before. It now looks like a shrunken version of the MDX. The mechanical eagle-beak grille has been shut down, so look at this very moment, apply to the rest of the Acura line up to see weakened.

The RDX the new maturity extends below the plate. Compared with the previous model, the wheelbase is 1.4 inches wider and stretched Acura the way for more space for passengers and luggage, while the door openings for better ingress and egress are extended. The prototype is also about 1 cm deep and 0.1 inches wider and longer than the current RDX. (There is a large 5.2 inches longer and 2.1 inches wider and has 2.6 inches more between the wheels, but the latest Honda CR-V.) To tame the noise up to the cabin, there will be more sound-deadening material and Active Sound Control noise abatement technology from the RL sedan copied.

Whilst we believe the slight bump size graves RDX, we're a bit worried what Acura did to the mechanics of the crossover. Everything that made the last one to drive RDX is so much fun, the turbocharged four-cylinder engine, torque-vectoring "Super Handling" all-wheel drive and excellent control, whether it be tweaked or replaced. For 2013, the SH-AWD and the turbo four are gone, from a non-torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system and replace V-6. Acura says the not-so-super all-wheel drive is easier to make the car more efficient overall, the change makes the RDX is the only AWD model line-up of the brand, without SH-AWD. The control is changed to an electrically amplified design with fuel consumption opinion.

The 3.5-liter V-6 delivers 33 hp more than last year, which is four-banger for a total of 273 and bolted a six-speed automatic transmission instead of five-cog unit last year. For those who do not need four-wheel drive remains the RDX is equipped with front-wheel drive. According to Acura, the RDX will return better fuel economy than the current model with a disk configuration. The company expects the front-drive RDX at 20 mpg in the city and 28 can be designed on the highway, but offers no provisional figures for the four-wheel-drive model. The 2012 RDX fuel consumption figures are significantly worse in 19/24 mpg for the FWD version and 17/22 with SH-AWD. Previous gene could boogie from 0 to 60 mph in the low six-second RDXs series, and we expect that the performance in 2013 in a straight line do not change much.

Like all current Acura’s, the 2013 RDX will be available with a range of comfort and technology features, including a power lift gate, Pandora radio, keyless entry and start, and a tri-view rear camera. A technology package is offered and includes Acura's voice-activated navigation system with real-time traffic information and weather, the NAV system with a 60-gigabyte hard drive can be upgraded up to 15 gigs of music files. Acura has not released any prices, but we should not be too long to wait for the information or the rest of the details of the production model.