Where some high-end automakers offer packages or individual options, Acura bundles the extras in packages only. The Technology and Advance Packages incorporate an Active Sport Suspension with Comfort, Normal, Sport, and Sport+ modes.The Entertainment package adds an optical disc player with 9- or 16-inch second row displays. The Advance package provides front and rear parking sonar. All Acuras except the base MDX get navigation (via one of the options packages) and ever-better ELS audio with 10, 11 or 12 speakers. The MDX will be offered in front- or all-wheel drive, with Technology, Advance and Entertainment packages. For the first time, in addition to the V6 gasoline engine with nine-speed automatic that continues to be the mainstream powerplant, the MDX will also be offered in a three-motor hybrid version where power to the rear wheels will be delivered exclusively via electric motors the front wheels can be driven by the gas engine or a motor.īy making AcuraWatch standard, it decreases the number of possible options for the buyer to sift through in the showroom. The midlife refresh of the Acura MDX was announced Wednesday on the first press day of the 2017 New York International Auto Show ( NYIAS).
Buy a 2017 starting this summer, and every trim line between $44,000 and $58,000 (estimated) gets you adaptive cruise control (ACC) with low-speed follow (LSF), collision mitigation braking system (CMBS) with automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning (LDW), lane keeping assist (LKAS), forward collision warning (FCW), and road departure mitigation (RDM).
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Safety is so important now for a premium car or SUV, not to mention so affordable, that with the 2017 Acura MDX refresh, the midsize SUV now makes standard the driver assists formerly in the AcuraWatch package.