NEW Acura MDX: With Ground Breakers Like The Kia Telluride, WHY Does Acura Keep Giving Us Better SAMENESS?

Twenty years after MDX debuted as one of the first of a new breed of premium “crossover” SUVs, Acura is set to unveil the next generation of America’s all-time best-selling 3-row luxury SUV. The fourth-generation MDX gets its most ambitious and far-reaching remake yet, inside and out, beginning with the global digital reveal of the Acura MDX Prototype on Oct. 14.

From Acura: Acura’s best-selling vehicle and America’s all-time best-selling 3-row luxury SUV gets its most ambitious redesign ever and MDX takes on flagship role with dramatic gains in style, performance and craftsmanship...

The release says 'most ambitious redesign ever'. Does THIS redesign look AMBITIOUS to YOU?

Our question based on this tease and wire frame illustration of the next MDX is WHY do they keep feeding us better sameness when companies like KIA are taking things to the next level?

trmckin - 10/3/2020 3:05:57 PM

+3 Boost

Not everyone is impressed with the Kia. Felt lumbering and underpowered. I’d take the mdx in its current form over the telluride and probably this refreshed version too.

carloslassiter - 10/3/2020 3:14:00 PM

+3 Boost

Is it really better?

malba2367 - 10/3/2020 4:28:56 PM

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This is turning in to a Tesla/Telluride fanboy site. How can you possible compare the Telluride to this upcoming MDX when all you have seen is line image of the exterior and no idea about the interior. The Telluride is a very nice vehicle with the unrefined engine being the weakness...the Acura 3.0 Turbo is much more refined. It remains to be seen how the Acura will compare as the interior will likely be nicer and the ownership experience at Acura is much better than Kia.

MDarringer - 10/4/2020 9:47:15 AM

-2 Boost

It isn't all-new truly. It's a restyle with a nip/tuck more than a clean sheet. Thus, the pathetic old MDX is still there.

Carmaker1 - 10/6/2020 5:39:15 PM

+1 Boost

It's on a newer, different platform than the outgoing MDX you blithering dunce (next Pilot might utilize it). How about you stay in your lane and not comment on what you're embarrassingly ignorant of?

MDarringer - 10/6/2020 6:59:35 PM

+1 Boost

Yeah, change a couple of bolts and shazaam all new platform. The carryover is massive.

MBCLS07 - 10/3/2020 4:38:28 PM

+5 Boost

The Telluride is fine, but hardly "groundbreaking". The front end looks like a 10 year old GMC.

MDarringer - 10/3/2020 10:53:19 PM

0 Boost

Drive a Telluride. It is astoundingly well done and refined. It's a premium vehicle without the premium price.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 10/3/2020 4:44:26 PM

+1 Boost

The success of the MDX (its is the brand) is what keeps it the same. Like the Range Rover or the Ford Explorer. Too big to mess with. This makes the experimentation with the design ground to a halt. What we see above could be from 2005.

MDarringer - 10/3/2020 10:50:11 PM

-4 Boost

The MDX is a class trailing design and has been for a decade. It's not especially good. My XT6 has grown on me a LOT and I'd take it over the dull, stupidly named, mediocre MDX.

F1_Driver - 10/3/2020 5:35:02 PM

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Acura in its heydays churned out refreshing and exciting cars that were reliable like the Legend and the Integra. Nowadays, they just play catch up producing cookie cutter cars that have below average reliability. They already have one foot in their grave. Good luck Acura, you will need it.

SuperCarEnthusiast - 10/4/2020 2:56:24 AM

+2 Boost

The center instrument console will be a copy of the RDX!

bnilhome - 10/4/2020 9:30:10 PM

0 Boost

I really like the new Telluride but the MDX has been a best selling luxury 3-row SUV for years and I imagine it will continue to sell well when the new redesign comes out. The Telluride's bigger competition would be the Pilot or its cousin the Palisade, not the MDX.

cidflekken - 10/5/2020 4:20:23 PM

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Why fix what isn't broken? The MDX sells very well, even for an aged design. It has been lauded for its driving dynamics. It will also have a Type-S which will take its performance to a whole other level.

Regarding the Telluride, I find it completely unattractive and, frankly, bloated and boring. Just a modern-day Envoy. Yes, it may drive well and its interior is very nice. Those differences in its segment aren't significant enough to me to call it the "must have". While being smaller, I would much rather have a CX-9 or Highlander.