The 2024 Acura TLX sees various updates to maintain it aggressive and handle just a few buyer requests. It additionally seems to be a bit completely different, however you do have to take a more in-depth side-by-side look.
The massive visible change is the entrance finish. It now seems to be extra just like the TLX Idea automotive – particularly the decrease air dam space and crucially, there’s now a frameless grille. Acura wanted to revamp your entire trim piece above the grille and throughout the fascia to accommodate it. The change is most blatant on the bottom TLX, which used to have chrome lipstick across the “Diamond Pentagon” grille. It’s gone now.
So are a complete heap of 2024 Acura TLX trim ranges. There had been eight and now there are three: TLX with Know-how Bundle, A-Spec and Sort S. Entrance-wheel drive is now solely paired with the now-base TLX with Know-how Bundle (that’s critically what it’s known as) and vice versa, whereas the opposite two are solely paired with Tremendous Dealing with All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD). There was beforehand a Know-how-less Base TLX, a front-wheel-drive A-Spec, a TLX with Advance Bundle, a Sort S w/ Efficiency Tire and the special-edition Sort S PMC Version. The surviving three had been apparently what folks had been overwhelmingly getting.
That mentioned, components of these zombie trims survive. The Advance bundle could also be gone for the bottom TLX (prospects had been extra within the sporty variations than the extra luxurious take of Advance vehicles), however its head-up show and surround-view parking digital camera are added as commonplace to the Acura TLX Sort S. It already had the Advance’s different extras. The PMC’s particular light-weight wheels, long-established in a Copper shade at the moment are dealer-installed choices for the Sort S together with the efficiency tires.
Talking of wheels, Acura answered one other buyer request by enlarging the A-Spec wheels to 19 inches and thru in a coat of Shark Grey paint. The Sort S wheels at the moment are Berlina Black to match the brand new gloss-black end in its grille. Extra gloss black reveals up on the A-Spec as nicely on its new, reshaped rear spoiler. Under it’s a equally gloss black diffuser encasing new spherical tailpipes rather than the outdated sq. covers.
Maybe probably the most important visible improve, nevertheless, is again up entrance the place a brand new, smaller radar sensor for the adaptive cruise management and ahead collision prevention system is now fully encased behind the Acura emblem. The sensor was beforehand a sq. plastic plate awkwardly positioned on the grille mesh with the emblem plopped on high. It was lame. And now it’s gone. The blind-spot warning sensors had been additionally upgraded for expanded field of regard.
Inside, in case you had been hoping a revised TLX would lead to Acura binning its bizarre Precision Cockpit touchpad infotainment controller, nicely, sorry, it didn’t. The touchpad stays, however the display screen is larger –12.3 inches versus 10.3 – and the processor operating it’s sooner. Wi-fi CarPlay and Android Auto at the moment are included, whereas the ambient lighting management is now accessed immediately from the principle menu reasonably than being buried in submenus. This was one other buyer request. So too was the additional stitching atop the Sort S sprint (folks love themselves some stitching it appears).
The TLX analog gauges are gone, which is a disgrace within the Sort S because it had actually cool, basic Acura white-trimmed dials. The brand new 12.3-inch all-digital show gauges options two designs: a just-OK “Crafted” design that appears like two commonplace dials, and a new-fangled “Advance” design that places the tach and speedo on the periphery a la BMW and fills the middle with a too-small speedo and varied graphics for ADAS and infotainment. There’s apparently a 3rd design, unique to the Sort S Sport+ mode that incorporates a huge horizontal bar graph for the tach. It sounds much like what’s within the Integra Sort S, however Acura couldn’t put the automotive into Sport+ mode for classy causes related to how the automotive was staged throughout our preview. Just like the Integra Sort S, the revised TLX Sort S additionally means that you can fill the infotainment display screen with further gauges, on this case for turbo increase and a g-meter.
The one adjustments that might have an effect on the driving expertise are further sound-deadening measures in all fashions, whereas the throttle response within the Sort S Sport+ mode has been sharpened. There are not any different powertrain or chassis enhancements.
The up to date 2024 Acura TLX goes on sale in late November. Pricing was not out there on the time of this writing, however Acura did say that they are going to be just a little larger however inline with the earlier TLX with Know-how Bundle, A-Spec and Sort S.