The 2025 Acura MDX sees a lot of updates and upgrades, particularly inside, the place a brand new infotainment system is a possible game-changer for Acura’s flagship SUV in addition to, probably, your entire model.
Now, at first look, including a 12.3-inch touchscreen to a brand new luxurious automotive should not be that massive of a deal, even when it options over-the-air updates and Google built-in tech. It might even evoke an eyeroll if you happen to came upon that each the display screen and interface are mainly the identical as you’d discover in a range-topping Honda Accord. The rationale it is important is due to what it replaces. Acura’s True Touchpad interface has been unloved because it debuted on the current-generation RDX and subsequently unfold all through the Acura lineup to every thing not named Integra. This interface that paired a dash-top display screen with a singular touchpad on the middle console (urgent on the touchpad would choose an icon on the corresponding spot on the display screen) was not precisely a important darling. All the system felt like Acura was being contrarian, as if a touchscreen and even knob-and-display setup, have been too fundamental. Properly, they fundamental now. Even when the brand new touchscreen is shared with an Accord, so what? It is sensibly laid out, appears adequate and Google built-in means an enhanced model of Google Maps is on board together with varied Apps from the Google Play retailer. And sure, Apple CarPlay remains to be current.
With the True Touchpad really gone, actual property opened up on the middle console. There is a new, huge, kinda shallow bin that is perhaps helpful for one thing however appears a bit vestigial. It is situated the place the quantity knob was — that is migrated west to the place the touchpad was and due to this fact nearer to your hand. The Touchpad’s wrist relaxation that used to hover over the wi-fi telephone charger is clearly now not there, both, making it simpler to position and take away your telephone.
One other big-time change for 2025 is the addition of Bang & Olufsen sound techniques as a substitute of the Panasonic/ELS upgrades which were an Acura staple for 20 years. Though the ZDX is technically the primary Acura to get a Bang & Olufsen system (the 2025 MDX will arrive at sellers after Acura’s electrical love child with GM), the MDX will get essentially the most highly effective model. Not simply when it comes to an Acura Bang & Olufsen providing, however strongest Acura sound system ever. Unique to the range-topping Kind S with Advance Package deal, it has 31 audio system (together with 12 within the ceiling alone), 24 channels of energy, two amplifiers and an 8.8-inch subwoofer. A 19-speaker Bang & Olufsen system is included on the MDX Expertise Package deal, Advance Package deal and A-Spec fashions. Each characteristic Bang & Olufsen’s 3D Sound Management and Beosonic one-touch sound management that is a severe improve over the standard Bass, Mid and Treble sliders.
Elsewhere in tech land, the AcuraWatch driver help suite will get a {hardware} improve, leading to improved adaptive cruise management efficiency, further-seeing blind-spot warning and a better ahead collision mitigation system. The Kind S with Advance Package deal will get even higher-grade stuff, together with higher sensors, that enhance the varied present ADAS techniques and make it doable so as to add automated lane adjustments to adaptive cruise management (should faucet the flip sign), computerized steering intervention to the blind-spot warning system and entrance cross-traffic warning.
There aren’t any mechanical upgrades, until you think about some additional sound deadening and rear laminated glass on most trim ranges to be a mechanical improve. Exterior visible variations are additionally refined, with revised decrease fascias for each customary and Kind S fashions, new grille inserts for each, and a revised grille encompass that removes the chrome lipstick look of the usual MDX. The taillights are actually darker, too, and there are new wheel designs all through. I am going into them extra within the video above.
It could not look like loads, and probably a change that should not have been wanted within the first place, however the brand new touchscreen interface removes a big barrier to signing up for a number of years in a brand new MDX. One also can leap to the conclusion that subsequent Acuras will probably be equally upgraded, so preserve an eye fixed out for future RDX and TLX updates.