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I am not sure of A4 sales numbers but there are a LOT of them running around my town, along with C300's. Lots of BMW X vehicles too, X1, X3, X5. A few ES350 and GS350. I only have seen two TLX in the past year. One of my friends owned a TL for 7 years, hated the look of the TLX, and bought a Sonata Limited..........
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Can't speak for these other areas, but here in the Tristate area in and around NYC, TLXs are a dime a dozen, but so are C classes, 3 series, A4's etc. AWD versions across the board also seem to have a high uptake as well.
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For the longest time, I wanted a TSX wagon. I know, they didn't sell, yada yada, but I liked the look. My sister had an Audi A4 wagon, cool looking, no thanks on the maintenance. I do not like the TLX or RLX at all as far as looks. IMO, the Honda Accord looks better as far as styling. "There's a butt for every seat".
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For the longest time, I wanted a TSX wagon. I know, they didn't sell, yada yada, but I liked the look. My sister had an Audi A4 wagon, cool looking, no thanks on the maintenance. I do not like the TLX or RLX at all as far as looks. IMO, the Honda Accord looks better as far as styling. "There's a butt for every seat".
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I am not sure of A4 sales numbers but there are a LOT of them running around my town, along with C300's. Lots of BMW X vehicles too, X1, X3, X5. A few ES350 and GS350. I only have seen two TLX in the past year. One of my friends owned a TL for 7 years, hated the look of the TLX, and bought a Sonata Limited..........
That said the newly designed AT's are getting much closer in speed of operation functionality. The last of the Kings the 755BHP Corvette ZR1 @ $120K to start will have an 8AT as an option along with the 7MT. Don't know whos AT8 (ZF8?) is in the car because GM's new home grown AT collaboration with FORD is a 10AT.
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They figured it out a long time ago. They are suppliers of both F1 & Indy engines. The NSX has a 500BHP 3.5 V6 in it. Its about what they WANT to put in the TLX for marketing (cost?) reasons not because of engineering issues preventing it.
I think the NSX is meant to reinforce Acura's brand message: "Precision Crafted Performance", proof they can make a high horsepower "super/muscle car" that makes Acura owners feel good about the brand. If they really want to take it to where it should go, they would expand the concept to the models they sell a lot of like MDX. Maybe an A-Spec MDX, with MORE HP? TLX A spec looks sweet, better performance on the track, cleaner, etc, but NO extra HP? What is the point?? Not like Honda can't put a supercharger or turbocharger on it, I am sure their engineers can figure that out!!
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For the longest time, I wanted a TSX wagon. I know, they didn't sell, yada yada, but I liked the look. My sister had an Audi A4 wagon, cool looking, no thanks on the maintenance. I do not like the TLX or RLX at all as far as looks. IMO, the Honda Accord looks better as far as styling. "There's a butt for every seat".
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I believe production stopped for a long time because of the tsunami that hit right when the wagon was being introduced. Honda got hit hard by that.
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With North American consumers eating up crossovers, should Acura just dump all their sedan resources into just one platform and make it the best it can be? Nobody cares about the ILX and RLX, and I'd much rather see different tiers of the TLX.
TLX 2.0T
TLX Hybrid (2.0T + SH-SH-AWD)
TLX A-Spec (V6T)
TLX Type-S (V6T + SH-SH-AWD)
Along with the RDX, MDX and CDX (which I'm assuming will make it here one day), a baby NSX coupe to flesh out the lineup wouldn't hurt either.
TLX 2.0T
TLX Hybrid (2.0T + SH-SH-AWD)
TLX A-Spec (V6T)
TLX Type-S (V6T + SH-SH-AWD)
Along with the RDX, MDX and CDX (which I'm assuming will make it here one day), a baby NSX coupe to flesh out the lineup wouldn't hurt either.
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^^Good idea, but dump the FWD V6T. Just SH-AWD so rear wheels get some power.
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https://tiremeetsroad.com/2017/12/14...-new-v6-turbo/
Be careful what you wish for (you might get it). Rumored 320HP for a transverse layout baby NSX, but who knows....
Be careful what you wish for (you might get it). Rumored 320HP for a transverse layout baby NSX, but who knows....
#173
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^ If that's the new V6T that will be used across the entire Acura lineup, well there's no way I'll complain!
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WOOT!!!
And it's DOHC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it's DOHC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And it keeps VTEC....
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With North American consumers eating up crossovers, should Acura just dump all their sedan resources into just one platform and make it the best it can be? Nobody cares about the ILX and RLX, and I'd much rather see different tiers of the TLX.
TLX 2.0T
TLX Hybrid (2.0T + SH-SH-AWD)
TLX A-Spec (V6T)
TLX Type-S (V6T + SH-SH-AWD)
Along with the RDX, MDX and CDX (which I'm assuming will make it here one day), a baby NSX coupe to flesh out the lineup wouldn't hurt either.
TLX 2.0T
TLX Hybrid (2.0T + SH-SH-AWD)
TLX A-Spec (V6T)
TLX Type-S (V6T + SH-SH-AWD)
Along with the RDX, MDX and CDX (which I'm assuming will make it here one day), a baby NSX coupe to flesh out the lineup wouldn't hurt either.
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Let me rephrase, IMO Acura should just stick with one sedan instead of three. Make the TLX the best it can be, and if or when the mindshare and brand cachet improve to the point where they can bring in another sedan, then they can reintroduce the ILX or RLX. Does the ILX and RLX combined even come close to total TLX numbers?
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Let me rephrase, IMO Acura should just stick with one sedan instead of three. Make the TLX the best it can be, and if or when the mindshare and brand cachet improve to the point where they can bring in another sedan, then they can reintroduce the ILX or RLX. Does the ILX and RLX combined even come close to total TLX numbers?
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Yeah, it's rebranded a civic, in the rest of the world.
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How is nobody talking about the VTEC equipped DOHC V6T Honda just patented?!
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Agreed! And hopefully we’ll see a Q50 RS400 competitor as a result of this patent.
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It sure is when it is mated to SH-AWD.
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You might remember the TLX "race" cars had the engine almost where the front seat was in the production car. High horsepower transverse engines have been successful in some exotics but they were is a mid engine platform were trying to have the center of mass in the center of the car.
If you look at my 4 cam COBRA its actually a front mid engine RWD car. My legs run along the side of the engine & the transmission is just off my hip that why the stick points forward. The car is naturally tail heavy 47/53.
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Yep, a transversely mounted V6 turbo/twin turbo will do just fine if it's coupled with SH-AWD. ...and if it can still return fuel economy in the ballpark of the current TLX V6, I'll likely swap into one over the RS400 (which currently sits atop the list of potential replacements for my TLX.)
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If they did go with a 400BHP transverse engine I would hope they would design the platform to allow the engine to be moved back quite a bit from the front wheels. Last thing they need is the extra mass of a quad cam sitting out front.
You might remember the TLX "race" cars had the engine almost where the front seat was in the production car. High horsepower transverse engines have been successful in some exotics but they were is a mid engine platform were trying to have the center of mass in the center of the car.
If you look at my 4 cam COBRA its actually a front mid engine RWD car. My legs run along the side of the engine & the transmission is just off my hip that why the stick points forward. The car is naturally tail heavy 47/53.
You might remember the TLX "race" cars had the engine almost where the front seat was in the production car. High horsepower transverse engines have been successful in some exotics but they were is a mid engine platform were trying to have the center of mass in the center of the car.
If you look at my 4 cam COBRA its actually a front mid engine RWD car. My legs run along the side of the engine & the transmission is just off my hip that why the stick points forward. The car is naturally tail heavy 47/53.
I'm not looking to get into 4000 word long debate with you (), but all I'm going to say is: Audi. Their engines are very far forward. And they might not be M4 slayers, but they are very nice, very fun cars to drive.
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I've owned a couple of performance Audis and I will have to disagree. They're surefooted, but with all that weight in the nose they plow and badly understeer at the limit, which is not fun.
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With Quattro?
Curious to know what you specifically owned. Year and model.
Curious to know what you specifically owned. Year and model.
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Not entirely true. While the engine still sits in front of the axle, the transmission is actually located behind the axle, that alone allows any MLB based Audis to have better weight distribution and better dash to axle ratio.
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You might want to explain the dash to axle ratio thingie (TLX racecars with the engine in the front seat) because so I do not get into a 4000 word debate. The only thing I will say is the TLX & Audi are both FWD but they are identical twins.
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No need to explain anything about the TLX race car. It's not that complicated
truth be told, I've never driven a modern Audi- I was going off what I thought I generally here about Audis- they handle well.
truth be told, I've never driven a modern Audi- I was going off what I thought I generally here about Audis- they handle well.
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Arrow wants to go straight due to its mass almost all being in the arrowhead = FWD with mass infront of the axle. More effort to turn. The more you move mass back even though its still nose heavy it gets easier to turn.
Road & Track used to have a great feature with its road tests. On the stats page they has a side view cutaway of the car layout over a box grid so you could see where the drive train was in the car
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This is what I’ve been saying all along. A lot of people on here keep saying that Acura needs to move to a RWD platform to produce good cars. I strongly disagree and think that SH-AWD compensates very fairly for the fwd layout. I’d like to see Acura improve SH-AWD to allow 80% torque to the rear vs 70% and make it so that sport + mode allows that 80% to stay going to the rear even when going straight and not just in corners. Would make for a hell of a car. Sidenote: Lincoln now uses a version of SH-AWD in the continental and MKS or MKZ with their 400hp 3.0TT, has anyone got a chance to see what that is like?
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Audis drive well. They tend to understeer more than the equivalent Bimmer, but they stick well.
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BMW dials in some understeer on many of the cars to keep drivers from loosing the rear in a turn. This can be adjusted out with changes in camber. Mine stays stock for reduced rear tire wear. Interesting note on this. My grandsons Genesis R-Spec Coupe with the track package came with camber plates in the glove compartment to be used if you wanted to reduce the built in understeer.
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Found an old one. Would be interesting to see a TLX & A-4 to see how the engine transmission mass is distributed. Like this format better then the current ones, think it gives you more useful information.
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Check out those stats! Quite a beast!
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