The 2024 Acura TLX sees plenty of updates to maintain it aggressive and deal with just a few buyer requests. It additionally appears to be like a bit totally different, however you do have to take a more in-depth side-by-side look.
The large visible change is the entrance finish. It now appears to be like extra just like the TLX Idea automobile – particularly the decrease air dam space and crucially, there’s now a frameless grille. Acura wanted to revamp the complete 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 an entire heap of 2024 Acura TLX trim ranges. There had been eight and now there are three: TLX with Expertise Bundle, A-Spec and Kind S. Entrance-wheel drive is now completely paired with the now-base TLX with Expertise Bundle (that’s significantly 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 Expertise-less Base TLX, a front-wheel-drive A-Spec, a TLX with Advance Bundle, a Kind S w/ Efficiency Tire and the special-edition Kind S PMC Version. The surviving three had been apparently what folks had been overwhelmingly getting.
That stated, 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 digicam are added as normal to the Acura TLX Kind S. It already had the Advance’s different extras. The PMC’s particular light-weight wheels, normal in a Copper shade at the moment are dealer-installed choices for the Kind 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 Kind S wheels at the moment are Berlina Black to match the brand new gloss-black end in its grille. Extra gloss black exhibits up on the A-Spec as nicely on its new, reshaped rear spoiler. Beneath it’s a equally gloss black diffuser encasing new spherical tailpipes rather than the previous sq. covers.
Maybe essentially 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 brand. 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 visual field.
Inside, should you had been hoping a revised TLX would end in 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 working it’s quicker. Wi-fi CarPlay and Android Auto at the moment are included, whereas the ambient lighting management is now accessed instantly from the primary menu slightly than being buried in submenus. This was one other buyer request. So too was the additional stitching atop the Kind S sprint (folks love themselves some stitching it appears).
The TLX analog gauges are gone, which is a disgrace within the Kind S because it had actually cool, traditional 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 normal 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 Kind S Sport+ mode that encompasses a massive horizontal bar graph for the tach. It sounds much like what’s within the Integra Kind S, however Acura couldn’t put the automobile into Sport+ mode for classy causes related to how the automobile was staged throughout our preview. Just like the Integra Kind S, the revised TLX Kind S additionally permits you to fill the infotainment display screen with further gauges, on this case for turbo enhance and a g-meter.
The one modifications that might have an effect on the driving expertise are further sound-deadening measures in all fashions, whereas the throttle response within the Kind S Sport+ mode has been sharpened. There aren’t any different powertrain or chassis enhancements.
The up to date 2024 Acura TLX goes on sale in late November. Pricing was not obtainable on the time of this writing, however Acura did say that they are going to be slightly larger however inline with the earlier TLX with Expertise Bundle, A-Spec and Kind S.