Santa Barbara, CA – Full disclosure is required here: Our first test drive of the brand-new Acura ZDX’s Type S variant took place on pristine roads in pristine weather. That’s fine of course except that there are inevitably factors that the SUV will face in Canada come winter that we weren’t going to evaluate on this day. Namely, we think of charging speed, maximum range, the performance in trickier conditions of Acura’s semi-autonomous drive system .
The 2024 Acura ZDX Type S, front | Design of the 2024 Acura ZDX Type S - 8,0/10In terms of styling, this is an Acura; there’s not much borrowed from elsewhere. The vehicle leads with the seamless pentagon front grille surrounded by jewel-eye headlights. In fact there are a number of design cues first revealed by the automaker with the Precision EV concept that eventually led to the ZDX. The Type S variant gets a Sport Appearance package to make its… appearance sportier.
The GM stamp is noticeable here and there, in the form of certain plastic elements, the low dashboard and slim air vents. There’s no single screen display, however. Rather, the two screens appear separately, which does reduce the wow factor a little bit. There are large physical buttons and knobs for the essentials, so no need to dig around on screen for the main commands.
Be that as it may, the big draw here is the AcuraWatch suite of systems that includes, alongside a host of drive-assist functionalities, Hands Free Cruise, essentially GM’s SuperCruise semi-autonomous drive system relabeled. It allows for hands-free driving on large swaths of highways in Canada and the U.S.
But this remains a big vehicle and a heavy one; it never really feels light, least of all when pushing it around corners. The centre of gravity is low so there’s not much roll, per se, and in Sport mode you make the ZDX Type S hug the road a little more. But there’s only so far you can go to mask the heft of this EV that rides on 22-inch wheels and stretches 5019 mm in length, almost as much as the current MDX.
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