As the luxury sedan market has shrunk in recent years, the competition between remaining entries has gotten fiercer. Acura’s former offering, the RLX, was given a refresh for 2018, but that wasn’t enough to boost sales, and it was axed after 2020. The issue with the car was not that any one element stood out as particularly a letdown, but rather that few elements stood out at all.
The car’s exterior styling, while pleasant enough, wasn’t particularly distinctive, and the interior was also not the most memorable. The 2018 update saw a few new tech features added, but the car also trailed its competitors in that regard too, missing industry-standard features like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Up to 377 horsepower was available with the hybrid powertrain, again a respectable figure but not an unusual one for the segment.
Even its reliability rating wasn’t exceptional – iSeeCars gave the hybrid variant a 7.4, beating the segment average but finishing short of the best in class.
