I’m a HUGE Acura fan, buying…
I’m a HUGE Acura fan, buying my first vehicle in 1987. I put 260,000 happy miles on that car before I sold it. After the minivan kid years and buying vehicles for all the now ex wives I decided to buy a newish car for myself in 2020. I’m pretty particular about color, style, features, mileage, and price so I spent weeks on the web until I found a pristine RDX advance that matched my preferences. Flew to Athens, Georgia with a buddy, coincidentally the same one who recommended I check out Acura 40 years before, to pick it up. That’s how much confidence I had in the brand buying the car sight unseen.
Fast forward to 60k miles later. I love everything about the car EXCEPT the touchpad and to a lesser degree the ridiculous camera and graphics. Here’s the thing on the touchpad: In real world competition of the Ergonomic Olympics ANY vehicle owner with a touch screen is going to mop the floor of the Acura owner in task completion. It could be a 6 year old touchscreen competitor against a touchpad teen and the teen would lose! It’s that bad. Is the touchpad innovative? Yes. Is it practical? No! Worse, because it takes just a few seconds longer to perform each task, it’s downright dangerous. Vehicle tasks shouldn’t take that long to enhance driver focus and safety.
For that reason alone, when Acura wises up and realizes this part of the car isn’t “Precision Crafted Engineering” as their company logo proclaims and ditches this piece, I’m trading in!!