Acura Updated the RDX for 2025, But Left One Frustrating Feature Untouched
The sporty Acura RDX is getting an overhaul for 2025, which will bring updated exterior styling, new infotainment features, and better interior storage. That said, one of the SUV’s most annoying features will remain when it hits dealers’ lots later this month.
Acura gave the RDX a new grille and gloss-black exterior trim. New wheel designs are available, including the standard 19-inch Berlina Black offerings. SUVs equipped with the Advance Package get a unique wheel design and body-colored lower trim. A-Spec models step up to 20-inch wheels with a gray finish.
Interior updates include full-leather upholstery for Advance and A-Spec Advance models, ambient interior lighting, and new acid-etched speaker grilles. The 10.2-inch infotainment display now offers wide-screen viewing for the standard wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto features, but the RDX’s much-reviled touchpad controller interface remains.
Acura left the powertrain alone, which includes a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine making 272 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque. It’s paired with a sport-tuned ten-speed automatic transmission and torque-vectoring all-wheel drive. Adaptive dampers are available, and all RDXs get four drive modes with settings for snow, comfort, normal, and sport.
AcuraWatch safety equipment comes standard, bringing adaptive cruise control, lane departure alerts, forward collision warnings, lane keep assist, traffic sign recognition, blind spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alerts, and more. The 2024 RDX earned a Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and we expect the 2025 model to perform similarly.
The RDX will continue to be built in Ohio, where its engine is also manufactured. The 10-speed automatic transmission is built in Georgia and Acura notes that the vehicle is ranked in the top 12 most American-made vehicles.
[Images: Acura]
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Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.
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