Acura’s first in-house crossover/SUV is lastly ready for one more full redesign, and these latest spy photos give us our largest look nonetheless. This 2022 Acura MDX was caught by one amongst our spy photographers with bare minimal vinyl wrap camouflage. As such, we’ll inform that the model new model will nearly undoubtedly be pretty a bit more athletic and share many styling cues with the not too means as quickly as more revealed TLX sedan.
Starting from the doorway, the MDX alternate decisions the pentagonal grille from the TLX. While the outgoing mannequin has the equal grille, this one is wider and flatter. It moreover has headlights that match with the grille bigger, adopting a more angular, slimmer kind in distinction with the outdated MDX. The grille and headlights sit elevated contained contained contained in the doorway fascia, too. Combined with what seems as if an prolonged nostril, the model new MDX has a more proud, upright look versus the slumped, barely minivan-esque design of the current model.
Moving all by way of the MDX, we’ll make out beefier fenders that give the model new crossover an unlimited, sporty stance. The roofline seems a bit lower than the current MDX, furthering the sportier look. The rear quarter window moreover sweeps upward now. This echoes the window line of the TLX.
The rear of the MDX is the least attention-grabbing, nonetheless it nonetheless borrows from the TLX. The taillights and the squared-off exhaust concepts look very like these of the sedan. Otherwise, the MDX has a fairly generic hatch.
Considering how close to manufacturing this prototype is, and a leaked Acura product freeway map, we’re anticipating the MDX to be completely revealed all by way of this 12 months’s auto show season (regardless of which might presumably be), so sometime contained contained contained in the autumn or winter. We suspect its powertrain lineup will mirror that of the TLX with a 272-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder on account of the underside engine, and a Type S mannequin (confirmed by the aforementioned freeway map) will get a turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 making 355 horsepower. A hybrid model will nearly undoubtedly be all by way of the market in the long term, too, nonetheless presumably not at launch. Versions powering the doorway or all four wheels will certainly be all by way of the market, with the latter using the SH-AWD system Acura has develop to be acknowledged for.
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