Acura

Does the 2017 Acura NSX Have a Soul?

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Just as in Hollywood, the troubled, twice-aborted development of the Acura NSX didn’t bode well for the finished product. Delays. Indecision. Rewrites. A Japanese director and crew dumped, then replaced by an Ohio-based team with a more ambitious vision for a big-budget, all-wheel drive hybrid supercar. It didn’t help that the NSX is the Godfather 3 of … Read more

The 2017 Acura ILX Is a Compact Car with Luxury Dreams

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Welcome to Critic’s Notebook, a quick and off-the-cuff collection of impressions, jottings, and marginalia on whatever The Drive writers happen to be driving. Today’s edition: the 2017 Acura ILX. I wanted to like the Acura ILX. I really, really did. On paper, it sounds like the sort of car I’d buy. Peppy four-cylinder engine? Solid. Eight-speed dual-clutch transmission with … Read more