The 2022 Acura MDX Advance Platinum Elite Surprisingly Sharp Style With a High Tech Cabin

Hello, hello here guys. Today we are back with another unlock. Today we got the 2022 Acura MDX. This is the Platinum Elite Package or in the U.S. this one is called the Advanced Package. We're going to take it for a test drive, kind of go through the ins and outs, what's new. Let's jump into it. So Acura has fully redesigned the MDX. This is the fourth generation MDX and we're able to get our hands on this one. It actually feels really big on the inside. It looks very small on the outside but it feels massive on the inside. It's got an MSRP of about $68,900 and what we're working with here, the exterior is phenomenal. They made quite a bit of changes to the exterior. Nice long nose, kind of strong exterior shoulders and then you have all this lower chrome at the bottom here. Full LEDs all the way around. You have the LED fog lights, you have the LED headlights and then you have that huge Acura symbol stamped in front of the diamond-shaped pentagon grille. It's going to be sitting on 20-inch aluminum alloy rims with this Platinum Elite Package. So let's talk about infotainment and what's going on here. You have this nice large 12-inch screen here. It's not a touchscreen but you can control it with this touchpad that's right at the bottom. It's in a pretty nice place here down below and you can control it pretty easily. You have kind of two little divisions here. One for your main screen and then one for whatever you want to put up on this side here and you can also control with the touchscreen and you can kind of adjust it however you want to have it set up with your nav on this side or your nav on that side, radio on this side or radio on that side. There's all different ways you can set it up and it's really nice. The convenience of this vehicle is there's a ton of features. You have things like the cabin Intak PA system if you want to talk to your passengers in the back and you talk to them through your speakers so you're not yelling. You have a nice color heads-up display. You also have the ELS studio with the premium sound system so you get up to 16 speakers. You have USB charging ports. You have a wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. I haven't hooked it up yet but you can do that as well with the wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. You have smart shortcuts so you can kind of put your shortcuts wherever you want on your heads-up display. You can put them in there as well. Let's go through the bottom here. You have different drive modes as well so you can pick your different drive modes which is really cool. There's a snow mode, a comfort mode and a sport mode which we're going to try out on the road here in a second. And then below that is our digital temperature control so we have nice and easy digital temperature control. You have the auto start and stop assist. But let's get to the moment I've been waiting for and that's taking it for a drive. Alright so here's what we're working with under the hood. This one is equipped with a 3.5 I-VTEC V6 engine and that's going to give you about 290 horsepower and 267 pounds for your torque. There's just one engine standard throughout all the trim levels no matter which one you get. This is the top model, the luxury model, but you're just going to get the same standard engine. This one comes with quite a few features like your paddle shifters as well. Obviously the big accurate thing is the super handling all-wheel drive and then you get a 10-speed automatic transmission. So I've been super excited for this all week to finally just get this thing on the road. Fuel economy you're looking at about 12.6 in the city, 9.4 on the highway which is about 11.2 combined but that's a lot of fun when you step on it there. Tons of things I like about this. I love the interior design that they did. Everything is nice and laid out. There's a lot of buttons but it does feel pretty easy to control. I love this nice leather perforated seat that we're sitting in, super comfortable. You're probably going to hear me say that there's a lot of things I love about this car quite a bit but I'm pretty easy to please. Nice beige perforated leather, contrasts great with this nice black interior here at the top, the two-tone with the black and the beige and the white stitching. It looks like it's jaw-dropping when you get in it. It feels like it takes off very very quickly but it will break very very quickly. If you're going at those high speeds it will definitely stop when you need and then you have all the standard safety features that you're going to be looking for in a luxury family vehicle like this and we're going to get to them there all through the Acura watch suite. You have the blind spot information system which is going to come up here. You have the adaptive cruise control, the blind spot detection like I mentioned, lane departure mitigation and lane departure warning. You have the traffic jam assistant so it will just help you keep the safe distance from the car in front of you and maintain your speed if you're in a traffic jam and you have your low-speed braking control. It also has a 360 surround view camera so it has cameras on all four sides and it's going to give you a full idea. What I've been dying to try is the different drive modes so we're about to kind of pop it on the highway here and I'm just going to drop it into sport mode. There's a snow mode, a comfort mode, a normal mode and a sport mode. There's also an individual mode if you want to really customize the car but I'm going to drop it into sport mode and we're going to kind of step on it here a little bit. I also like the heads-up display. The heads-up display is really neat. It's a colored heads-up display, probably one of the nicest heads-up displays that I've seen. Maybe the only one better was in that Mercedes GL but let's see how this nice V6 kind of punches it here. It's really weird. There's no like shifter but there's a nice little grip for your handle which makes for comfort when you're positioning. Let's try out this sport mode. Not bad. The car in front of me is moving a little slow so it's hard to really really take off there but there we go. Yeah so it definitely punches it pretty good. Now we're out going about 140 so I should probably slow down a little bit but let's try out this cruise control and see how that feels with the lane assistant here. Pretty quickly to lock into the lane and let's just set our speed here. Now we're locked in at 115 and there we go. It's gonna take this little small turn for us pretty easily. So I definitely like that. That really helps when you're driving on the highway and it helps on those long trips just to reduce fatigue, add to the comfort. Really is good especially in a large vehicle like this with your family in there. You want as many safety features as you can. Let's talk about the rear seats. So the rear seating is very easy to get in and out of the back. That's another important thing that you want with your family is how easy it is for your kids to get into the back seat and it's just a one button push. You push the button, the seats will slide forward and they can jump into the third row. If you don't want that center console, the center console is also removable so you can remove the center console pretty easily. It is pretty heavy to be taken in and out if you're gonna be doing it often but Lumberglad like me surely can get it done. And then in the trunk, there's a lot of cargo space and Acura has done something very unique here with the cargo system. They gave you kind of this false floor which you can adjust. It's rubberized if you have kind of wet items, maybe a dog, muddy shoes, you're working, things like that. You can use the rubber side. If you want a bit more comfort, you can flip it around and you can get the carpet inside and it will flip around as well. They've also put in some unique touches to the liftgate. Not only is it a foot activated liftgate that most of the manufacturers are going with now but it also has that sensor in the liftgate so if you push the button, it will activate and be ready to close when you step away. So once you push the button and you walk away with the key fob, it's gonna automatically close the trunk for you which we thought was pretty neat and that's actually a very handy feature that I haven't really seen on too many vehicles. The foot activation worked like first, second, third, fourth try. It always worked. I was never like kicking in different spots. Foot activated liftgate worked very well as well. So definitely like the cargo area and the tailgate. There's also a ton of technology that you can use. We haven't really tried it out today because we're simply sampling the car but you can set up like your Alexa account to the car and you can use Alexa with the vehicle. The wireless Android Auto and the wireless Apple CarPlay is pretty key. There's a massive Qi charger right here below this kind of grab handle and you can charge your phone wirelessly as well so that's a nice little neat little feature and then you have just a few other safety features. You have the automatic start stop assist, heated steering wheel, heated and cooled seats. Obviously you get the cooled seats for the summertime. I like this digital gauge cluster behind the wheel here. The wheel is telescopic so that's nice and easy to move and you have this nice large digital gauge cluster to show your digital speedometer, your safety features, which mode you're in and let's take it out to sport mode and let's just try the comfort mode. See how that changes and it's really neat when you change your drive mode it changes on the large screen as well and it shows you just a unique view of the car. So pretty cool features. I also like it does have like a wiper de-icer so in the wintertime it will kind of heat up right below the spot where your wipers sit so it will heat up your wipers and make it easier to defrost your windshield and you can just defrost your windshield that much quicker and get you to work that much quicker. Electric parking brake as well you have the adjustment of your heads-up display which is really cool you can adjust where you want it and like I said the heads-up display is really really nice and then you can hear the blind spot monitor going off as I go to change lanes. It's just a subtle beep I don't like the cars that just really really beep at you so much you can hear that just a quick subtle beep to let you know like hey don't change lanes someone's in your blind spot. Obviously you get the full panoramic sunroof so that just opens up with a touch of a button nice and large it's a little rainy outside so I'm not gonna open it right now but you can see how long it takes to close and that just explains how big it is and now it's so dark in the car so using the sunroof will definitely let a lot of light in. So there you have it guys that's a wrap on your 2022 Acura MDX. 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