ACURA IS WORTHLESS

[Jesda]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?

[skydragoness]

Dem Rimz.

Seriously. Acura has lost their collective minds.
Kind of looks like an Avalon-Legacy (bleh)

[asoomal]

You should see how the locals are loving this car...

I'm actually serious.

[Jesda]

ITS LIKE A KNOCKOFF SUBARY LEGAYCY

[sx moneypit]

[300ZXttZMAN]

Dem Rimz.

Seriously. Acura has lost their collective minds.
Kind of looks like an Avalon-Legacy (bleh)

this This THIS!

[Otto.]

What's up with that crease just before the front door? What is that there for? What the fuuuuuuu

...and those things on the rear bumper... are those just glued on?

Oh, and the wheels. Kill it with fire.

[alphapig]

At least they stopped putting front grilles on the rear fascia

[Jesda]

THE FACE:

[szh]

I dunno about this one. It looks pretty darn bland ... maybe a backlash from their more recent edgy models?

But, although I know a bunch of you all don't like the new NSX, I am drooling ... So, I don't think that Acura has lost their mind totally anyway!

By the way, after 15 years, my wife's 1997 Acura 2.2CL finally lost its transmission a few months. Aside from that, it was by far the most reliable car I have ever owned (in the 38 years that I have been buying cars and driving). Her replacement is a 2011 Acura TSX ... with a body kit. Looks pretty nice, and she is hoping it will go a long, long time too.

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[300ZXttZMAN]

What's up with that crease just before the front door? What is that there for? What the fuuuuuuu

Oh, and the wheels. Kill it with fire

Wow I just noticed the crease I must agree that crease is aweful..

[Bubba1]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?

Perhaps an example of why people buy old Acura's instead of new ones? I'm sure it'll be a pleasing car to drive, but it's not an attractive design. Acura seems to be chasing after the AARP-early-bird-special-old-fart-black socks with-sandals-geezer full-sized -sedan market. Since Toyota named their offering after a NJ shore town, maybe Acura will name their version similarly....."Point(less) Pleasant."

[RicerX]

Dude... if Acura fell off the face of the earth, I don't think anyone would notice.

Their car designers have needed a shot of adrenaline to the heart, and their employee doc in a box prescribed them weed instead.

For a company that made cars such as the NSX and Integra, they have certainly lost their way. Why would I buy this over an Audi A 4/5/6/7/8? A Mercedes CLS/C/E Class? A Lexus GS (identical to this thing but with wheels that don't look like they were designed on a spyrograph)? A Cadillac CTS? An Infiniti M?

If I were a shareholder for Acura, I would demand the CEO exile the design team, the marketing team, and whoever approved this design and start over.

[MinisterofDOOM]

The RLX Looks like a Chevy Cruze from the back. It even has the same proportions. High standards!
I still think it's an improvement over the tribal tattoo look, but only because that's a very special kinda ugly.

I read C&D's RSS feed on my phone regularly on my lunch break. A couple weeks ago they had a post about the RLX, and in it they sounded more excited than I've ever been about even the most exotic supercar. It kinda made me feel a bit nausated. I had to close the page because the other people in the break room were looking at me uneasily as I swore furiously under my breath.
I've never been fond of the Legend (always preferred the Vigor/TL), and after it became the RL it devolved steadily into an purposeless, overweight blandmobile with a sticker price that's $15k too high.

I love big cars, but not big little cars. You can't just inflate a midsize family sedan and succeed.
The DTS/DeVille is successful because it's HUGE, ultra-luxurious, attractive, has torque to burn, and drives nice. The Avalon is successful because it's gigantic, comfortable, dependable, and AFFORDABLE.
The RL is a mess. Not particularly luxurious, lacking in torque, over-complicated and over-teched, not attractive, not very big, and coma-inducingly expensive. $48k BASE PRICE! What the SH@T is Acura thinking?! It's one thing to rebadge the "real" Accord and sell it with a $5k markup. But $50k will buy you a whole Hell of a lot of BMW, Mercedes Benz, Cadillac, Jaguar, or any number of other genuine luxury cars.

And this "AWD" with electric motors in the rear can choke to death on its own saliva.

I miss the Vigor. I miss '90s Acura's spectacularly low, limbo-champion beltlines. I miss the Acura that made FWD cars that were actually thrilling to drive.
All that's left of them is a shadow of a wannabe.

Oh well, maybe this will help MKS sales. Except wait a second...I don't want that at all!

Spot the difference!

[Rev_D21]

Looks like a Genesis done badly. Clearly the Genesis was penned by an artist while the Acura is a donk.

Genesis looks good.