‘ADDING THE X FACTOR’
The all-new 2014 Acura RLX with the Advance Package adds more power, performance, comfort, luxury, high-tech connectivity and safety systems that take this all-new ‘top-of-the-line’ Acura into a higher position competing against the best mid-size luxury sport sedans on the market.
The all-new Acura is the most powerful, spacious and technologically advanced Acura sedan ever. It is powered by an all-new 3.5 liter SOHC Earth Dreams Technology V6 engine featuring an aluminum block/heads, direct injection, and intelligent VVT + Lift electronic control, four-valves per cylinder, generating a healthy 310hp at 6,500rpm and 272lb. ft. of torque at 4,500rpm. It also features variable cylinder management cylinder deactivation system that improves mpg when cruising. This advanced engine is mated to a re-engineered, six-speed automatic FWD transaxle with sequential Sportshift paddle shifter on the steering wheel including a Sport mode to remap for faster and higher rpm gear changes and tighten the dampers for more spirited handling. The new Grade Logic Control works with the transmission to keep it in the proper gear when driving up or down hilly terrain.
The state-of-the-art fully independent suspension gives you an amazing ride of a sport sedan and a luxury sedan all rolled into one. Up front is a double-wishbone, lower double-joint setup with telescopic gas-filled Amplitude Reactive shocks and a 33mm solid stabilizer bar. A multi-link rear suspension setup also features the telescopic gas-filled Amplitude Reactive shocks and a 25mm solid stabilizer bar to keep the RLX flat when attacking steep curving roads. It is tremendously responsive and flattens out the potholes on rough roads. Giving me an even more responsive feedback from my steering inputs is the electric power rack & pinion steering system that features Acura’s Precision All-Wheel Steer (P-AWS) that continuously monitors and calculates the correct amount of independent rear-wheel steering (toe angle) necessary to help you maneuver through tough curving roads with ease and stability. With these innovative systems and Acura’s Vehicle Stability Assist with Traction Control, there is no hint that the all-new RLX is a front-wheel-drive sedan. I felt no hint of ‘torque steer’, no understeer with the P-AWS system. Steering is quick and responsive with a ratio of 13.9:1 and just 2.58 turns lock-to-lock. You can shut down the Traction Control system to let the rear slide out a little at the apex of the curve to got my pulse running higher.
Quickly and safely slowing the all-new RLX down from speed are big, powerful brakes. Up front are 12.3 inch vented discs clamped with large, Acura lettered single-piston calipers. The rear features 12.2 inch solid discs also clamped with large single-piston calipers. Keeping control of the RLX during hard braking on wet or slick pavement are standard ABS, EBD and BA systems.
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