Whiskers

Audi's website is crap....In any case, Ill look at it when Im ready to buy in August. Looking at Audi, BMW, Acura, Volvo, Lexus and Cadillac. Looking for a sedan under 50K with Nav

dom

We have this thing called Car Talk. Try it sometime.

Just looked at all the pics and god damn are those jewel eyed headlights ever ugly as sin.

Whiskers

Car what?

dom

Just order a 335Xi and be done with it. All the cool kids drive bimmers.

A man of your stature can't be seen slumming it in an TLX. Don't be a tight ass like Fibbo. Spend your wife's money and let her buy you another car.

Whiskers

I don't want to look like a slummer.... I test drove a Lexus ES and didnt love it.

VR1

This..
We can all sit around and bitch about which luxury sports car thing has the most HP (Just FYI I believe the Volvo
o S60 with 240hp @ 33k wins this debate), but at the end of the day what really matters are things like steering feedback, suspension tuning, dampening, weight, rigidity etc... Any car can make HP #'s, but what's more important is how well it uses those #'s, and the experience they provide for the driver. If you want to see power done poorly, just look at the base level V6 Mustang.

Hapa DC5

all that jelly and no toast.

ttribe

No need to be a smart ass. What's happening in the automotive market? Are the majority of manufacturers moving away from N/A engines? Yes. Why? Market demand for engines that are both more powerful and more fuel efficient. Hence, forced injection. How has Acura been doing relative it its competition? Shrinking sales numbers and market share.

Costco

It's a brand new car from a supposed luxury marque. Vanilla would be acceptable on a Honda or Toyota. It doesn't matter if it's their bread-and-butter sedan, it should impress somehow. Yet the main defense around here is that "it's not that much behind it's competitors!" or "it'll be a great value!"

SSFTSX

it is called law of diminishing returns. more cogs will not help BMW.
to comply with latest safety regulations and increase refinement. BMW cars are getting heavier so they need more torque for performance and wider tires for handling. The proves that BMW engineering is fundamentally flawed.


328i Long term fuel economic 27mpg. air pressure 36/45
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...wrap-up-review

Accord 6MT sport long term 29mpg. airpressure 32/32
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...-update-review

Legend2TL

With the right leader, they could get there. Peter Schutz 2X Porsche sales and 4X the revenue in 5 years 3 decades ago. Very remarkable exec, never even rode let alone drove a Porsche when he became their CEO.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschaw...eo-of-porsche/

SlimTL

Looks good, but like someone said earlier, this should have been the 4g. It would have saved Acura a lot of heartache, stylewise, over that generation. All in all, it's a step in the right direction, like eating vanilla ice cream with sprinkles. Maybe the mmc will go all out a be neapolitan.

The back end is missing a few things. (dead horse beating here)
1. Exposed exhausts
2. More Low
3. Can't tell, but possible LED brakelights. Looks like old school filament bulbs in there behind the LED tubes.

Legend2TL

^ and a maraschino cherry on top?

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Dude get the GS350 F Sport.

That shit looks so hot inside and out. Drives very nice too.

SSFTSX

Acura is doing very well. there is not so much used new model Acura dumped into dealer lots.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Eat
Before
You
Talk

jwong77

It's not bad of a design, it's just too bad they didn't get the wheel fitment right. It's just begging for a half inch drop and bigger/wider wheels.

jwong77

Sales numbers prove you are wrong, but you knew that already.

Whiskers

Too small.

SSFTSX

Sales number does not mean much. Nissan has increase sales a lot. BMW has way too much leases that transactional price don't even matter that almost BMW leases will return to dealers.

http://247wallst.com/autos/2014/04/0...-nissans-fall/

dom

He said GS not IS.

ttribe

phile

I like the interior. I'm glad Acura is embracing wood (even if it's fake) in the TLX. You rarely saw the wood accented interior in the press photos for the TL. The exterior sadly still looks boring.

JS + XES

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Did you eat?

Ken1997TL

It would sit perfectly with Whiskers and his topless McDonalds/US Airways ladies..

Ken1997TL

He ate, he talked, he babbled..

MTEAZY

I think it looks good with the big wheels and black interior. It doesn't set my heart on fire, but nothing in this segment does. The 3G everyone's raving about actually had less to differentiate itself from the Accord, with the same 5AT and no torque vectoring AWD system.


The main shortcoming of this car is the powertrain. They should add a 350 hp Type S with visible exhaust. 6MT won't be a big seller but they could have it to appease the enthusiasts. And 2.0T ~250 hp for the base engine. They are close and far at the same time.

qingcong

^^ 7k redline, must be the 2.4L

Whiskers

Yeah, they are nicer but want to stay under 50K

juniorbean

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^^ Why does it look like an SUV in that picture? Minus the wheel gap it just seems to have a very high waistline. Could be the angle of the photo...


These two probably sum it up the best for me. It's not bad, but not great, just meh. Complete opposite reaction of when I see most other cars. I think the 6G Hyandai Sonata got more attention from me versus anything Acura's put out in the last 5-7 years or so.

First thing I thought when I looked at the TLX was Honda Accord. Acura needs to distance itself from Honda instead of being, as Moog calls it, Honda +. When I look at a GS or even IS, I don't even remotely thing of Toyota... I think Lexus. But whenever I look at an Acura (with a few exceptions like the MDX), I just think Honda vanilla.

I'm not going to argue sales numbers b/c I have no idea how it will do. I just know it doesn't interest me. Maybe if/when they come out with a Type-S spec it may look more aggressive and pique my interest again...

skd2k1

iTrader: (1)

after reading this thread I've finally realized that acura can't do anything right, and any car enthusiast worth his salt would be driving a hyundai sonata before he'd be caught dead in a tlx.

honestly, with a drop this car would be sexy, I don't really care what all the armchair racers say:

jiggaman

that side view def makes it look very SUVish.

AZuser

Acura should have used that TLX (color and wheel combo) at the reveal and for the press photos. It looks so much better than the brown or blue they used.

juniorbean

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That ice blue looks much better then what they used...

AZuser

The wheel change alone would have made a big difference, IMO.

It appears Acura still have the wrong people in their marketing dept. Instead of showing off the best possible looking version, they chose the least appealing version(s).

juniorbean

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^ Agreed. That ice blue version with those wheels actually looks a little bit IS-ish. Probably one of the better photos I've seen of it...

Moog-Type-S

You practically live in this thread

You've read them....you ignore them.

For crying out loud the latest are only a page or two back.

...but you will ignore, because it does not fit your narrative.

Moog-Type-S

oonowindoo

You know what other dealers don't have used cars in their lot? Saturn

You make it sound like that is a good thing proved that you have NO IDEA how the industry works.

You have to sell enough new cars to have enough used cars on the lot.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Oh, you are a real racer, so you drive a TL Type-S, right?