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Acura engineering effectively reinvigorated the sedan lineup with the advent of TLX. There’s been a bump or two along the way.

America loves a good deal and from where I sit, Acura RDX may be the best value found in a 2-row SUV today.

Finally, taking a driver’s seat position in Acura’s next generation supercar was both exhilarating and just a bit disappointing.

Warning: Do not attempt this experiment on roads at home, without first consulting you cars owner's manual.

2016 Acura RDX is the highest safety rated award winning premium compact SUV in North America. But, is this compact 2-row SUV fun to drive?

Alright, it looks like we’ll actually be sitting in the cockpit of Acura’s Halo Car sooner than later.

Next weekend, NFL fans will watch the most emotionally driven thought provoking video produced in Acura history. The message is clear and thought provoking.

2016 Acura MDX may in-fact be the safest premium SUV on the road today.

With a tweak or two as to rim design, ground effects, and a stunning body color application, Galpin Auto Sports in partnership with Acura, will smack BMW and Lexus fans with a thought provoking custom 2016 ILX A-SPEC

In a recent article, our friends at Detroit News wrote as to how 2016 Civic may soon take the momentum out of 2016 ILX sales. Will the all new Accord Touring do the same to Acura TLX?

With only 2 recalls noted in Acura TLX history, 2016 is shaping up to be a recall-free year for Acura’s best selling, financially attainable, and award winning mechanically reliable premium sport sedan.

Without the arrival of our weekly news bulletin from our friends at Acura, we wouldn’t have known of the arrival of the 2016 TLX to select dealers Thursday September 24.

I recently had a chance to spend a week behind the wheel of the Acura ILX and while driving this compact luxury sedan, it occurred to me that there is really no competition for the ILX – exposing a pretty substantial gap in the American luxury car segment.

Electrifying!
To impress greatly; thrill.
"an electrifying performance"
Synonyms: excite, thrill, stimulate, arouse, rouse, inspire, stir (up), exhilarate, intoxicate, galvanize, move, fire (with enthusiasm), fire someone's imagination, invigorate, animate. When weighing RLX Sport Hybrid against the competition, forget everything you think you know when it comes to hybrid performance.

2016 Acura RDX earns National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) overall 5 tar safety rating, This gives Acura a 5 star safety rating across the entire lineup; the only luxury nameplate in 2015 to do so.

Unfortunately, NSX is quickly becoming the “Boy that cried wolf” story of the supercar world. What’s going on with NSX now?

2016 Acura NSX takes Monterey Car Week by storm with 3 NSX color and trim variants on display for all to view.

Thanks to Acura-Torque News reader Tommy Wadden, we have our first confirmed Southern California sighting of the production 2016 Acura NSX, and what a beautiful performance hybrid she is.

In this day of recall-driven heightened consumer concern for automotive safety, Acura’s entire lineup has earned the highest overall safety score in the industry. Note the word entire!

Last week Torque News reported on the national confirmation-drive (sake down) of 2016 Acura NSX, where a team of engineers from Honda’s Performance Center put NSX through its paces under variable, elevation, road, heat and speed conditions.

Amidst rumors circulating the automotive journalism world of yet another NSX release delay, we receive an update from Acura

As they say: “The market has spoken,” taking American Honda Motors built SUV and crossovers to a record June with a surprise or two.

When was the last time you drove an SUV that was effortless, intuitive to driver command and fun to drive?

Once again Honda is co-sponsoring the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. For 2015, Acura’s pulling out all stops and releasing something highly anticipated by fans worldwide.

I was introduced to Acura’s flagship sedan back in August of 2014, and was immediately hooked. However, the RLX Sport Hybrid failed to materialize in the U.S. for 2015. Acura’s shipping 2016s, but where are they?

For the Acura loyal, NSX represents more than the rolling sum of its glorious parts. It’s an automotive ideal that embodies ‘low key’ precision good looks, relative financial attainability and above all else, near intuitive driver-car inter-connectivity and Sci-Fi-like active safety features.

“Old School”, “New School,” it doesn't matter. Want it or not, autonomous-like active safety technology has become a marketing tool for many if not all automotive manufacturers. What lessons do we learn from Acura’s latest MDX. RLX recall?

The first time Torque News drove a pre-production direct injected V6 powered Acura, we wondered if something wasn’t faulty with our test mule. The cars engine idle note didn’t seem quite right.

Despite mixed critical automotive review of Acura’s latest major refresh of ILX, Torque News-Acura finds this Honda Civic platform performer to be a bit more car than initial anticipated. 2016 Acura ILX-A-SPEC compact performance sport sedan surprises!

In a recent night-driving road test of 2015 TLX, Torque News-Acura was astounded by the near-day-light illumination of Acura's latest Jewel Eye LED 5 projector beam headlamp technology. We believe Jewel Eye is the white-brightest and safest night-driving illumination, day-time running light assesory in the automotive world today.