Acura will give its RDX compact SUV a minor makeover for the 2025 model year. We expect a substantial redesign of the car for 2026, though Acura hasn’t confirmed that plan.
Acura hasn’t revealed pricing for the 2025 RDX. The 2024 model on dealer lots today starts at $45,700 after the $1,350 delivery fee. Little change to the car should mean little change to the price when it arrives at dealerships later this month.
All entry-level luxury vehicles try to carefully balance price and features, but the RDX does a better job than many.
“There are rivals with more prestige than an Acura RDX — like a Mercedes-Benz GLC or a BMW X3 — but they have higher prices while not offering the same features-for-Franklins ratio,” says Kelley Blue Book expert test driver Colin Ryan in our review of the Acura RDX. “We’ve also found the RDX enjoyable to drive.”
That shouldn’t change for 2025. Acura has given the SUV a slight nip and tuck with a new frameless grille and what Acura calls “more aggressive grille mesh.” We all hate passive grille mesh.
RDX models with the optional Advance Package get body-color lower exterior trim.
That’s it for the visual update. Inside, changes are similarly restrained. A new center console design includes “increased storage, larger cupholders and easier access to the wireless smartphone charger.” The 10.2-inch central screen hasn’t changed but now uses a widescreen mode when Android Auto or Apple CarPlay are active.
The RDX has long used unusual trackpad-driven controls for its infotainment system. Reviewers tend to find it clunky in a world where most cars let you just touch the item you want on the screen. Acura got rid of the trackpad when it redesigned this car’s big brother, the MDX. But the touchpad continues into 2025 on the RDX.
Advance Package-equipped models now get full leather upholstery, “additional ambient lighting on the new center console, and dramatically lit front- and rear-door speaker cones behind acid-etched speaker grilles.”
The updates should allow the RDX to continue winning buyers in the new model year. But the design is getting long-in-the-tooth, so we expect an all-new RDX soon.
