Colin

No, The car coming out in the fall will have torque vectoring but it's not like the current system.

No PAWS. PAWS Is for front-wheel-drive, AWD Will use the hybrid system to provide torque vectoring.

Anticipated miles per gallon is 30 city/30 highway/30 combined

No price has been set, everything you see is pure speculation.

NJ06RL

Just saw this on a Honda Motor investors presentation so it should be official: 30,30,30 on mpgs and 370 hp combined for the SH AWD RLX

acuralvr1

Excellent! How about the price?

Colin

I still don't think that it is set in stone. However, they mentioned these figures in the MDX presentation today.

NJ06RL

Sorry but no price revealed. Honda was just trying to impress us investors with the solid sounding MPG numbers. A lot of the time, they leave the final pricing unsaid until they absolutely have to publish it I guess. Flexibility and optionality to respond to the economic environment maybe ? One reason why I think they could try to play price close to the vest is the RLX is largely made in Saitama Japan which means the weak Yen now works in HMC's favor. If it looks like we're all dying to buy one, then they'll price at the upper end of the range we're hearing now ( 75K ???? ) but if it looks like it needs a little help, they can cut price, maintain profits ( RLX sold in $ but HMC profits and production cost reported in Yen remember ? ), and not be accused of dumping too much cash on the hood when it hits dealer lots.

Point of note: Car and Driver analysts today at the NY Autoshow panned Acura ( and Honda ) in front of a bunch of investors for being overly conservative. They had a few likes in the Honda stable ( new Civic and Accord ) but they gave the new MDX only a small favorable mention. But nothing said on the RLX. They were generally unenthusiastic about Acura.

Well, at least I took some NSX pics ...

KeithL

Would anyone argue with that? The RLX/RDX/ILX/MDX are fairly conservative. While I would like to see them be more aggressive we all know the beating they took for the 4G TL and this is their reaction. I guess my concern is the old saying if you fall off the horse get up and get back on, Acura needs to get back on and try again. Falling back to ultra conservative will maintain stable sales, but will never put them out in front. If that is their plan then they will succeed.

neuronbob

I thought the RLX was being built in Ohio?

getakey

I think it will transition to Ohio, but first year at least is in Japan

NJ06RL

The NSX will be Ohio built I think. But the window stickers I saw on the 2014 PAWS RLXs all said built in Saitama Japan.

acuralvr1

Thanks for the info. I'll be at the NYC car show tomorrow. $75K for the hybrid RLX makes no sense if the FWD fully loaded model is going for $60K.

getakey

I believe fully loaded is somewhat north of $60K
The Advance is $61,345. Are there options above Advanced other than Krell?
Got to think that Hybrid plus 2 rear electric motors is at least $7500 add on. Can easily get to $70K and I suspect just north of that