Owner's Opinions: RDX City Driving "Jumpy"?
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Owner's Opinions: RDX City Driving "Jumpy"?
I was wondering if any owners out there can comment on how the RDX driving experience is in the city. I've found myself doing about 80/20 city-highway driving nowadays. I vaguely remember the RDX being a little jumpy on turns from a dead stop in my test drive last October...didn't bother me enough to really take note but I'm wondering if it'll become annoying in the long run.
Other online reviews and opinions have mentioned this sort of jumpiness too. Anyone find this is the case?
Other online reviews and opinions have mentioned this sort of jumpiness too. Anyone find this is the case?
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I often drive in NYC and I find the RDX to be great there. It feels solid on all those crappy roads and it zips around traffic like a small sports car and not like a 4000lbs SUV.
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Originally Posted by sasair
I often drive in NYC and I find the RDX to be great there. It feels solid on all those crappy roads and it zips around traffic like a small sports car and not like a 4000lbs SUV.
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I was wondering if any owners out there can comment on how the RDX driving experience is in the city. I've found myself doing about 80/20 city-highway driving nowadays. I vaguely remember the RDX being a little jumpy on turns from a dead stop in my test drive last October...didn't bother me enough to really take note but I'm wondering if it'll become annoying in the long run.
Other online reviews and opinions have mentioned this sort of jumpiness too. Anyone find this is the case?
Other online reviews and opinions have mentioned this sort of jumpiness too. Anyone find this is the case?
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It sounds like the post is referring to the non-linear engine response (turbo spooling up) from a stop. I think I recall one of the early reviews mentioning this about driving in a parking lot. I don't find it an issue but yes, if you push the throttle down and spin up the turbo when you didn't want to, it could be described as jumpy. It is a matter of being smooth on the throttle and getting accustomed to the throttle response. For some that may require a change to their driving style. If you have driven a manual it may come easier since you're generally more aware of feedback from the engine.
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Driving on the freeway: no problems. Driving in severe stop and go traffic (ie no turbo): no problems. Driving it in normal city driving can be a bit jarring as the turbo and auto transmission don't always seem to be in sync. The worst is when the turbo is engaging at the same time that the transmission is shifting gears. Switching to manual shifting helps a bit but you can't overcome it entirely.
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Originally Posted by stappy
It sounds like the post is referring to the non-linear engine response (turbo spooling up) from a stop. I think I recall one of the early reviews mentioning this about driving in a parking lot. I don't find it an issue but yes, if you push the throttle down and spin up the turbo when you didn't want to, it could be described as jumpy. It is a matter of being smooth on the throttle and getting accustomed to the throttle response. For some that may require a change to their driving style. If you have driven a manual it may come easier since you're generally more aware of feedback from the engine.
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Originally Posted by stappy
It sounds like the post is referring to the non-linear engine response (turbo spooling up) from a stop. I think I recall one of the early reviews mentioning this about driving in a parking lot. I don't find it an issue but yes, if you push the throttle down and spin up the turbo when you didn't want to, it could be described as jumpy. It is a matter of being smooth on the throttle and getting accustomed to the throttle response. For some that may require a change to their driving style. If you have driven a manual it may come easier since you're generally more aware of feedback from the engine.
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Originally Posted by stappy
It sounds like the post is referring to the non-linear engine response (turbo spooling up) from a stop. I think I recall one of the early reviews mentioning this about driving in a parking lot. I don't find it an issue but yes, if you push the throttle down and spin up the turbo when you didn't want to, it could be described as jumpy. It is a matter of being smooth on the throttle and getting accustomed to the throttle response. For some that may require a change to their driving style. If you have driven a manual it may come easier since you're generally more aware of feedback from the engine.
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When I first got it I found the throttle to be touchy - it was hard to get a reasonably sedate launch out of it. Nowadays I've adjusted and can start up more smoothly, but the throttle does still seem a little on the touchy side - as in, I can adjust, but I'd rather have more low-end control than to have to adjust.
I came from a manual and my impression would be that it is harder to adjust since a manual gives you much more control over what you are doing, but driving an automatic (and especially one with the throttle response characteristics of the RDX) is an experiment in meta-control - requesting one thing via control inputs in order to achieve the somewhat different outcome that you've learned will follow.
I came from a manual and my impression would be that it is harder to adjust since a manual gives you much more control over what you are doing, but driving an automatic (and especially one with the throttle response characteristics of the RDX) is an experiment in meta-control - requesting one thing via control inputs in order to achieve the somewhat different outcome that you've learned will follow.
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Originally Posted by flar
I came from a manual and my impression would be that it is harder to adjust ...
Of course my city drving is pretty flat (DC) so boost is unnecssary. I can see where city hills would require another level of throttle control.
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