Acura RDX - Review, Specs, Pricing, Features, Videos and More

The refreshed 2025 Acura RDX introduces updates to styling, technology, and cabin functionality, with pricing starting at $44,700. This five-passenger SUV features a redesigned "frameless" Diamond Pentagon grille, aggressive grille mesh, and Berlina Black 19-inch wheels as standard. Trim levels offer additional design upgrades, such as 20-inch wheels and unique paint options like Solar Silver Metallic, Canyon River Blue Metallic, and Urban Gray Pearl.

Interior enhancements include a reworked center console with larger cupholders, increased storage, and improved access to the wireless smartphone charger. A 10.2-inch HD display now supports a new wide-screen mode for wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Higher trims, such as the Advance Package, offer full-leather upholstery, ambient lighting, and upgraded audio elements.

The RDX maintains Acura’s emphasis on safety with the AcuraWatch suite, which includes features like Blind Spot Information, Collision Mitigation Braking, and Adaptive Cruise Control. All models also incorporate Acura’s proprietary ACE body structure for crash safety.

Power comes from a turbocharged engine paired with SH-AWD, delivering an EPA-estimated 21/27/23 MPG (city/highway/combined). With its updates, the RDX offers a refined balance of performance, technology, and safety in the premium SUV segment.

Remember those spot-the-difference images on the backs of cereal boxes? Acura does.

This is the facelifted 2022 Acura RDX, but I’m betting anybody who doesn’t cash cheques from Honda Motor Co. will have a hard time telling as much. Not that there was, or is, anything wrong with the look of Acura’s sharp-suited SUV.

In the face of numerous updates and introductions in the compact luxury crossover segment, Acura has very subtly updated its third-generation RDX, which launched for the 2019 model year. The changes are subtle, and mostly under the skin, yet reinforce the RDX’s inherent strengths: value, performance, and space.

As I was saying, there’s not a lot to visually mark out a 2022 RDX from a 2021. Acura has cleaned up the front bumper design, with vertical side intakes similar to the new-for-2022 MDX. While this A-Spec model has round exhaust tips, others get new rectangular outlets.

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Lexus has finally revealed the 2022 NX crossover, and it looks like a far more serious competitor in a ruthless segment.

Not that the current model wasn’t a sales success. Even in its twilight years, and in the middle of a pandemic, the NX racked up 55,784 sales in America through 2020, and an additional 6,954 examples in Canada. That puts it right near the top of the class on either side of the border, and makes the NX a very important model for Lexus.

To that end, Lexus hasn’t rocked the boat with the design of the second-gen NX. More important are the changes under the hood and in the cabin. Lexus will be offering no less than four different engine options for the 2022 NX, including a more powerful turbo motor and the brand’s first plug-in hybrid. Meanwhile, the NX will feature an expanded suite of driver assists and a wholly revamped infotainment setup, with a massive 14-inch touchscreen available. You can dive into all the juicy details in Chris Tonn’s in-depth 2022 Lexus NX preview article.

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