The Day - Acura MDX X-cedes X-pectations - News from southeastern Connecticut
By Henry Payne, The Detroit News I knew something had changed when I got into the cockpit of the 2022 Acura MDX. Sci-fi Drive Mode dial and “trigger” shifter like an NSX supercar. Dash-mounted, driver-centric touchscreen like a Mazda3. Digital dash display like an Audi S6. This is a performance car in SUV drag. Sure enough, the three-row SUV wanted to boogie. Acura had brought me to Hell, Mich. — home of the state’s most challenging roads — to drive the MDX for a reason. I dialed the fat Mode knob to Sport and floored the MDX onto Hadley Road’s twisties, the torque-vectoring all-w...