mgoblu

Like a lot of other people, I got frustrated with the wait at the dealers in the DC area, so I put in some requests up in NJ (have family up here). Got the call last night at 6 from Bridgewater that they had just received 5 TSX's that afternoon. One of them was silver/ebony/nav, and he was offering it $1100 cheaper than what DC dealers were offering, so I jumped in my rental and headed north.

Here are a couple of pics. Any requests, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
BTW, this is to replace my 05 NHB/EN/NAV (totaled), and I am HAPPY with the 06. Bluetooth is awesome! The new front rocks... the memory seats are PIMP... and the new nav is much better than before with no need to enter addresses by hand. Oh, and I was a little worried going from black to silver, but this new alabaster is awesome!!! Looks kinda white in some of these pics...








P.S. Could just be me, but the drive feels slightly heavier than the 05, but other than that seems about the same.
P.P.S. My only nit with the car so far is that the steering wheel really doesn't seem anything thicker to me, save for those two humps at 10 & 2.

waTSX

Congrats, mgoblu. Keep posting those driving impressions.

excited

Congrats, it looks fantastic. At first I thought, now I know where my car ended up, but I see that you have an XM radio antenna so I guess I don't have to take a trip to your area. Alabaster Silver was my first choice as well and it looks fantastic.

Congrats again.



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mgoblu

Nah, wasn't me that swiped your car man. Sorry to hear about that. Hopefully they make it up to you by "finding" an RBP really fast.

helraiser

Very nice ride dude, congrats! Hopefully us canucks'll have XM in ours or at least we can take it back to the dealer to be installed for free.

The more and more I see those rims the less and less ugly they appear. Still no comparison to the 5spoke but no longer fugly!

virtualbong

Not shabby at all, but what was Acura thinking with those stockies???

sas442

You mentioned Bridgewater offered the car for $1100 cheaper. What was their final quote including destination?

TacoBellSauce

can u plase post pics of the nav and zagat

lito

Sweeeet! Let the modding begin!

markcoburn

Look on this post:

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26894

mgoblu

Final price including destination, before TTL = 28,785, which comes out to slightly more than 1700 off MSRP (including dest). I know others have done better, but given the prices I've been offered in DC (500 off MSRP), I am more than pleased.

LuvMyTSX

Sweet car, man. Bridgewater Acura is 10 minutes from my house. They offered me the same deal on an '06, I'd take it except I just bought my CPO in May. Kinda wish I'd waited.

West6MT

congrats mgoblu. Car looks great.

tariq

thanks, been waiting to see pics of a silver 06!

mgoblu

So when I got up this morning, there was 2-3 inches of snow on my new car. As I was clearing it off, I noticed a couple of changes in the hood that I hadn't read about anywhere else (I could have easily missed it tho)...

The "troughs" which start near the corners of the hood by the windshield and slant down toward the grill are shaped differently now. It's kinda hard to explain, but the lowest part of the trough is not in the middle of the dip, it's off towards the sides of the car. Not sure if that makes any sense, but maybe someone else can explain. Sorry, no pics to show what I mean.

Also, that crease that runs right from the center of the hood by the grill, up toward the windshield seems like it extends farther than before.

I had a good stretch to test out the drive on my way home, about 225 miles. As far as handling, the stock tires definitely suck in the snow, but we knew that. I've gotta get some snow tires real soon (any recommendations?). I do notice more power in the lower rpms than the 05 had. It's not a whole lot more, but it's more, so that's good. Overall, the drive feels slightly improved over my 05, but on the whole not all that significant.

I also got to check out the new wipers since there was quite a bit of road spray. I am impressed! It's hard to explain, but they are just very clean and efficient, I guess. You know the spot that's left between the paths of the wipers at the bottom of the windshield, the spot that the blades never touch... well, that has shrunk considerably with these new blades. I'd say it's about 1 inch wide and maybe three inches tall now.

Finally, when I got home, I pulled out my all-weather mats from my 05, and when I took out the stock mats in the back seats of the 06, I noticed that the mat on the right-hand side now has a hole in it and there is a hook in the floor to hold it. However, there's no hook/hole for the left-hand side.

Anyway, just some more things I noticed today.

psteng19

Hmmm... don't know if this is good news or bad news for me.

I ordered my '06 from Bridgewater as well and they said it would be in last week by 11/30 but when I called to check, they said it wasn't here yet.
No phone call this weekend either.

Wonder if it's in another shipment.
Did you see a black/black 6 speed w/NAV by any chance?

tariq

can you take a few more shots of the exterior when you get a chance?
side profile, straight on rear, etc.

thanks!

97AcuraCL

k so the front has offically grown on me

925tsx

nice! although i lik emy 04 better

jerzpwr

congrats.. and nice pics.

TSXmeister

Awesome dude!!........ can't wait to get my hands on a TSX, my color choice is glacier blue metallic!!

CJams

Lucky you!

mgoblu

Sorry bud, the only other one I saw was a white one, but I didn't even look at it. I know the dealer said they got 5 of them in on Friday afternoon, and I believe he said 3 of them were with nav. When I asked what other colors they got, he wouldn't even answer, but just said... "yours by far looks the best of the ones we got." Whatever, I didn't push him. I was just glad to get in my car.

KunalPatel87

A oem wing & 20% tint is in order for this car... :-D

excited

I look at your Alabaster Silver TSX and I love the colour. After looking at your pictures I am forced to go and look at my pictures of the snow covered Royal Blue Pearl TSX to comfort myself that I will like this colour.

What stand out is that the TSX and in particular the front of the TSX looks fantastic in any colour. I also look for views of the richness of the blue and I find it in the front edges of the TSX.

The TSX is a great looking car. It will look great in Silver, Black, White, Blue, even Grey

I can't wait to get it. Congrats again on yours





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KunalPatel87

Can you get a nite picture of the HID and foglights on? I want to see what other 06 TSX owners are talking about when they say that Acura has matched the foglights color with the HID. Thanks!!!

swirlie

They don't look matched to me.

From this thread:

CJams

Tintin

no car with xenon has matching fogs.

I am sure he means that the day lights on and the fogs on at the same time are matching.

KunalPatel87

Oh well, Thanks Anyway...Nice choice in ASM

swirlie

Well, in that case, somebody else will have to confirm/deny it. I'm not about to take a pic of my car with it in neutral with the e-brake off and me not in it. And I don't feel like getting somebody to help.


EDIT:
Nope, it looks like he did want headlights/fogs... unless he worded it wrong or I'm misunderstanding 'HID'.

ostrich

Can you tell me how Alabaster silver differs from Satin silver please? Thanks!

excited

It's a lighter "whiter" more luminous silver.

It would be neat to see the two together in a pic.



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mgoblu

I too am interested to see these two colors next to each other. One of my buddies at work has a SSM 04, but he won't have it down here again (he lives in Philly, works in DC) until Jan. Anyone else have pics side-by-side?

As for HID/fogs... I've only seen reflections from store windows and cars in front of me, but they don't look like they match at all to me. Fogs are definitely yellowish compared to the HIDs.

krelio

Nice car! I definitely prefer your instrument panel to that of my TL.