My first thought when I saw this review was "Uh oh!", because these guys trash almost every car they ever review:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=3461

 

Pretty good review

 

yeah, the guys on TTAC are pretty hard to impress. I'm happy that their review was positive; they had the samre reservations about the TSX as I did before i test drove it.

 

Its pretty accurate.

 

yep they pretty much nailed it.

 

I know this is off the topic slightly, but looking further around their website at other reviews I almost laughed out loud at work on the comment they made about the new Acura MDX grill.

"Two dimpled metal chevrons frame the Acura logo. Up close, they appear surprisingly like ornamental cheese graters. From a distance, they make the MDX front end look like the head of a giant Remington MicroScreen electric shaver – ready to trim unsightly hair from America’s highways."

I wonder if the next generation TSX will have a cheese grater / electric shaver nose, or something closer to the RDX. (btw. that was my tie in to the tsx, and to stay on topic !)

 

No Torque Steer, since there is no torque?
What's he been drinking?
There's plenty of TS at 4K+ in first and second gear.
Mind you, as mine's '03, things may have changed with the '06 facelift models.

 

d is for dull......he got that right on the money
the car is boring like no tomorrow with the a/t

 

An 03? Very rare. Nice.

 

Pretty good writer, albeit the proclivity to prolong with prolixity and bomb away with bombast.

 

When a car company comes up with a competent and decent product it is pretty hard to come up with something negative, if it is written objectively.

 

It was launched in Europe at the end of '02.

 

"...understated instrument panel rendered in pliable polymers." That's why he's a professional writer and I'm not.

 

The guys at TTAC have a tendency to lean (actually, fall off a thousand foot ledge) towards overstatement (try any article by Farago or Mehta). This writer, McCombs must be new there, as I've never seen him there until now. He doesn't have the sometimes painfully annoying "proclivity" (yet) like most of the other writers there to bend over backwards (and up and down and all around) trying to be at the cutting edge of creative, funny, snarky, contraversial, and wordsmithy literary geniuses.

 

Perhaps this is an American problem, but usually "torque" means "low-end torque", which means the person complaining has trouble with the concept of putting the RPMs at 4000+.

Of course, if you're drag-racing, the low-end torque becomes more of an issue, but still....

 

As much as I would like to have the 6 MT, my wife can't drive a stick so I didn't have a choice. I'm sure I'd go nuts if I drove the MT, but the auto's fine, especially driving through Chicago which I do a lot.

 

Awesome write-up! Thanks for sharing........

 

nice review

 

at me then. Should have known you were from Europe.

 

I can't believe that some folks on this thread actually think that the "truthaboutcars" is a worthy car enthusiast website. I've been following some of their reviews for quite sometime and their trend is to bash most cars for no real, worthy reason, with the cavaet being that when they do "approve" of a car, everyone exclaims "well, if THEY liked it, then it must be good".

Take instead the example of Clarkson on TG. Yes, he bashes on perfectly engineered vehicles sometimes, but not without reason. The Cayenne IS ugly, and some of the "nicer" cars on there do lack character. But at the same time he can appreciate a good vehicle and extoll its virtues. Except in the case of American cars where he hate s them all

A true car enthusiast must be able to appreciate the good in any well engineered automobile. Instead, these guys on the truthaboutcars seem to bash on perfectly fine vehicles in order to gain some sort of "badass/hard to please rep". Thats

 

I totally agree I got AT because of Houston traffic!!

 

D is for Dull LOL. yea I'd like to have a 6 Speed too... but bay area traffic + hills.