2014 Acura RLX steps farther away from Honda roots — sort of
No mere Honda ever tastes the golden air that swirls through haughty Acura’s polished aluminum lungs. Acuras, after all, proudly tote $50,000 price tags and people who wear suits in the summer. Hondas...
View ArticleFord’s highly regarded Raptor pickup gets Shelby-ized
Giant Ford Raptors can outrun the sun across brutal deserts. Huge cactus and rocks the size of a Fiat 500 mean little to these steely, knobby-tired dirt warriors. To us concrete car people, they look...
View ArticleUsed Car Profile: 2004-2008 Acura TL
As the first TL to feature a design intended solely for the United States market, the third generation model sure did look a lot like something that would wear an Alfa Romeo badge and break down a...
View Article2012 Acura RL delivers exceptional refinement
The RL luxury performance sedan has long served as one of Acura’s most technologically advanced vehicles, and for 2012 such use of technology abounds. Whether it be advance technology applied to the...
View ArticleCar Review: Shortlist the 2013 Acura for luxurious but practical driving
Rita Cook Ask me a question. DALLAS, August 6, 2012 — Let me be the first to say that I loved driving the 2013 Acura ILX times two. Love it, really! In fact, I really didn’t want get out from behind...
View ArticleWeeklong Road Test: 2011 Acura RL vs. 2011 Hyundai Genesis 4.6 V8
Yes, it’s finally time for you to call the men with the funny white coats for the Honda and Acura Examiner as he is trying to compare a V8 engined, rear drive Hyundai luxury sedan with Acura’s top of...
View ArticleJeep's Great Big Beast of Solid Grace
Hand me Melville's condor quill and Vesuvius as an inkpot. The 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is one very angry whale. Horsepower addicts will want to know: Is this, the Chrysler SRT division's riff on...
View ArticleAuto review: Acura RLX fails to impress when compared with its peers
Strip away the $61,345 price tag and ignore all of its competitors, and the 2014 Acura RLX isn't a bad car. It's a quiet, luxurious and stylish front-wheel-drive sedan that sits at the top of the...
View ArticlePress Launch: The 2012 Acura TL and the Attack of the Texas Sized Pothole
Acura is currently in the midst of celebrating its 25thanniversary and what better way to do so then by refining their most fun to drive model, the TL sport sedan? They may no longer call their luxury...
View ArticleAcura RLX boasts singular driving experience
The 2014 RLX luxury sedan is the most sophisticated production car in history, topping even the Acura NSX sports car that's still revered by auto enthusiasts. Replacing the flagship Acura RL sedan...
View Article2014 Acura RLX: Luxury, but nothing more
Strip away the $61,345 price tag and ignore all of its competitors, and the 2014 Acura RLX isn't a bad car. It's a quiet, luxurious and stylish front-wheel-drive sedan that sits at the top of the...
View ArticleAcura RLX Concept Makes World Debut in New York
Acura flagship features first application of Acura Sport Hybrid SH-AWD®, more than 370-horsepower and class-leading fuel economy, with top-class seating comfort and next-generation Acura connectivity...
View ArticleSlideshow: 2011/2012 Honda and Acura Models
As I am the Honda and Acura Examiner and have had a lot of experience driving a lot of Honda and Acura models, have you ever wondered which ones have proven to be my favorites? As I have said for...
View ArticleAcura Unveils 2014 Acura MDX Prototype and 2014 Acura RLX at Montreal...
MONTREAL, Jan. 17, 2013 /CNW/ - Today, at the Montreal International Auto Show, Acura gave Canadian media their first look at two vehicles that will help redefine Canadians' expectations of what a...
View ArticleAcura Debuts 2014 RLX Sedan at Los Angeles Auto Show
All-new flagship sedan showcases signature new Acura technologies; boasts class-leading fuel-efficiency, handling agility and rear-seat legroom LOS ANGELES, CA, Nov. 28, 2012 /CNW/ - Acura took the...
View ArticleAcura Debuts 2014 RLX Sedan at Los Angeles Auto Show (Honda Motor Co Ltd)
Corporate November 28, 2012 Acura Debuts 2014 RLX Sedan at Los Angeles Auto Show All-new flagship sedan showcases signature new Acura technologies; boasts class-leading fuel-efficiency, handling...
View ArticleDarth and The Joker: Your Acura left the building
Darth Vader and The Joker won’t lust after the latest Acura. And that may be progress. Acura’s strangest vehicles — the shocking ZDX crossover comes to mind — wear grilles that somehow manage to blend...
View ArticleAcura TL: A Good Grille and a Better Car Behind It
Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal 2012 Acura TL with SH-AWD ('super-handling all-wheel drive') Not since Saint Lawrence has anybody suffered over a grille like Acura. The stylistic dithering over those...
View Article2014 Acura RLX is a mix of luxury, fuel economy
The 2014 RLX luxury sedan is the most sophisticated Acura production car in history, topping even the Acura NSX sports car that's still revered by auto enthusiasts. Replacing the flagship Acura RL...
View Article>Acura RLX replaces RL flagship
The 2014 RLX luxury sedan is the most sophisticated Acura production car in history, topping even the Acura NSX sports car that's still revered by auto enthusiasts. Replacing the flagship Acura RL...
View ArticleAcura RLX replaces RL flagship
The 2014 RLX luxury sedan is the most sophisticated Acura production car in history, topping even the Acura NSX sports car that's still revered by auto enthusiasts. Replacing the flagship Acura RL...
View Article2014 Acura RLX finally gives luxury buyers reason to think Honda
Galleries NAPA, Calif. - "Takaburi" is the word Acura's project leader Yousuke Sekino uses in describing the 2014 RLX sedan. It means "exhilarating" in Japanese and if any car in Honda's premium...
View ArticleJust what Japan needs: a new Hyundai Azera
Hyundai must be what Toyota executives exclaim when they whack their elbows on one of the Camry’s sharp edges. You know, something like: “Oh, Hyundai!” — as in “Oh, (expletive)!” Can you blame them?...
View ArticleBMW X1: A glimpse of our SUV future
Coldly efficient BMW could transform Bubba’s big red barn into a two-story, road-ripping terror of an SUV. Jawohl, dudes and dude-ettes. Drag out the 20-inch wheels and twin turbos. Can you say...
View ArticleStylish new Toyota Avalon loosens up, livens up
Old age slithered under my door a couple of years ago. At the tender age of 62, I’m technically “near-elderly,” which I suppose is like being “near-stumpy,” only with more dire long-term consequences....
View ArticleFree-spirit Flex lives up to its loose name
Software programmers — the new artists of the ’10s — speak in gibberish all day. They bounce around in dark cubicles to the timeless music of Angel of Death 5, obsessing over lines of code. You can’t...
View ArticleSubaru BRZ continues to rustle sports car world
Teenager-blue Subarus seize the street, shoving their way down boulevards like apocalypse in a 3,000-pound can. They ride low and sinister with big attitude, rumbling and popping like passing storms....
View ArticleChevy makes the Silverado a contender again
Wild horses trampled my plans to become The Dallas Kid, a steer-slinging, leather-bound, high-plains cowboy. OK, maybe it was just one skinny old horse in a parched meadow in south Oklahoma, there to...
View Article2014 Acura RLX impresses and disappoints (Photos)
Rating for 2014 Acura RLX 3 RLX styling is unremarkable, except for exterior lighting. There, RLX features what Acura calls Jewel Eye LED headlights. Using five small LED projector fixtures per side,...
View ArticleMark Phelan: 2014 Acura RLX lacks luxury handling, performance and downright...
Luxury cars should be special. You can give me a medal for stating the obvious, but that simple fact eludes some car companies that persist in slapping luxury price tags on cars that are really just...
View ArticleAuto review: 2014 Acura RLX lacks luxury handling, performance and downright...
Luxury cars should be special. You can give me a medal for stating the obvious, but that simple fact eludes some car companies that persist in slapping luxury price tags on cars that are really just...
View ArticleVolkswagen powers up a different sort of hybrid
Someday soon, a couple of trendy downtown lofties — probably wearing clothes made from milk jugs — will name their first-born hipster “Hybrid.” It’s got to happen. Hybrids achieved critical mass over...
View ArticleBMW 750 is mighty fine but not quite fabulous
Deals get done in the back of big black Bimmers. Hands shake, money moves from a bank in Germany to some glass box in Texas and two years later, wispy silver condos rise in Shanghai on dirt once...
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