Acura RDX test drive since 2006 SUV

Honda with an American accent

The engine is turbocharged, is it complete drive not about Honda?
 

Both yes, and no: this is an Acura RDX Cult of the American branch of the Japanese company on the test test of the Wheel magazine.
 
Only for the USA

Acura North American Honda. It is not surprising that Acura RDX shares one of the latest generation CR-V and is intended exclusively for the star-striped market. In order to drive along long intelligence routes, smooth as a mirror, asphalt and refuel with expensive (not in Russia will be said) fuel.
 

The Japanese took into account the requirements of the ordinary Yanko-car and offered him the optimally balanced option, taking into account the existing geographical and socio-economic conditions. And if America hadn’t a country of pragmatists and innovators, from Marisville, Ohio, car ranges loaded with Honda CR-V: a less outstanding car in terms of equipment and technological innovations. It is that it shines to Europe, and the United States for hardly a lot of money will receive a more perfect and to ends with innovation options with the Acura emblem.
 

Predatory and magnificent

The car has its own, maybe not elegant, but still original, look. I go around the Acura around. The predatory gaze of narrowed headlights, the punching of the front bumper with fog rounds, a swift profile with smooth concave and convex faces, and the Sivician feed with lush hips of the dudes, you can say nothing! Here are just a broken by lines and a flattened muzzle seems to be taken from another car
 

But in the interior, the semi-sports Honda style is best combined with the functionality of business sedans. I like everything here. A black steering wheel with silver inserts and numerous buttons lies comfortably in the hands. We control everything from the lamb: cruise control, radio and telephone, and in the grip area it still has thickening. Drowned column devices, casting purple-blue light, are well visible between its core and the upper part of the rim. Reminds the new Civic. In a soft driver's seat, you can very conveniently get a job: the chair trimmed with light skin is equipped with a wide range of electrical regulations, lumbar and lateral support. The passenger will have to be content with mechanical adjustments, and in just four positions.
 

Like the steering wheel, in black and gray, the central console and the upper part of the torpedo are made. Its lower part, tone to doors and salon, is trimmed with light plastic. Cute, but such a coloring is more familiar to the Americans. But the fact that everything works in the cabin, pressed, regulated, appreciated by our compatriots.

Atypical bias

 

More recently, in Honda, it was all voice that they said that powerful and at the same time could build economical engines without any boost. So it was, while their engines set small city cars in motion. But for the all -wheel drive alternate, the usual in -line four is not enough, and the six -cylinder will increase the mass and fuel consumption. Using a turbocharger, a four -cylinder engine with a volume of 2.3 L learned to produce the power of a six -cylinder engine: 240 liters. With. at 6,000 rpm.
 

Prices
$ 59,900 our tested car costs; Exactly in the same amount, the equipment available in Russia is evaluated. The standard equipment includes: a 2.3-liter 240-horsepower turbo engine, a five-speed automatic, front and side pillows, as well as safety curtains, ABS, EBD, Brake Assist, a VSA target stability system, electric windows, electric grinders, heating seats, two-zone climate control, two-zone climate control Electro-regulated driver's seat, folding rear seat and 18-inch wheels.
 

But this is not all: Acura engineers were able to save the engine from a typical turbo problem of failure of torque before starting the work of the supercharger. The low pressure turbine quickly spins, does not give failures, but does not provide an effective increase in power at the top. And the high -pressure turbocharger provides, but not without turboyam. Acura made two in one: a special valve changes the geometry of the turbine depending on the engine speed. There is one entrance on the engine bottoms to the turbine, and at high speeds the valve opens the second door.
 

How to try it all? Very simple: we press the gas pedal on the floor. The Acura RDX engine instantly responds to the gas pedal, instantly breaking off. Super!

Then there is an even, unprofitable acceleration, other stock turbo engines would interrupt acceleration with a pause-turbocharger. And the RDX engine persistently carries me and the car forward. When the arrow of the tachometer crossed the mark of 4,000 rpm, the motor softly, but significantly strengthened the onslaught. It’s good that Honda switched to turbo engine! It is only a pity that so far such engines are put only on acura.
 


G.ing actively!

As in the Acura RL (Honda Legend Cooperative), RDX has all four wheels leading this is the merit of the SH-AWD system, or super-leading (Super-Handling), all-wheel drive.
 

We go at a constant speed. RDX behaves as a typical front -wheel drive. And now acceleration: the weight is transferred to the rear wheels. The transmission understood my intentions, and the torque of the engine goes to the rear wheels. Now the behavior of the car resembles a classic all -wheel drive.

We make a left turn: at the signal of the sensors, the transmission throws the torque of the rear axle to the right (external) wheel.

The car begins to actively steal, reducing the arc and screwing into the turn. The main thing is not to release gas
 

With constant acceleration-reinforcements, the box with the GRADE Logic Control system holds reduced gears to avoid jerks when switching. I press the left petal and give in to gas the machine goes into normal mode. Now you can accelerate and switch to increased gear. If you use the steering wheel switches in sports mode, the box will not go into the automatic transmission mode until the Drive mode is included.

 
BAD NEWS:

So far, Acura is not going to officially trade in cars in Russia.
 
GOOD NEWS:

Despite this, the Acura RDX crossover can be ordered and a guarantee.



The car was provided by the Adamsmotors company commission department of the company


Text: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 110/2006]