The 2024 Acura MDX is the flagship vehicle of the entire Honda empire. Acura is the luxury marque of Honda. As the largest, most well-equipped thing on the Acura lot, it showcases every technology and luxury the incredibly consistent Japanese brand can build.
You might expect that to mean a stratospheric price tag. But what may be most remarkable about the MDX is its approachable price. It starts at $49,850. Last month, the average new car in America sold for $48,528. The top of the entire Honda lineup is accessible for just a little more than the cost of the average new car.
Step up to the most well-equipped version, and prices stay within reason. The 2024 Acura MDX Type S Advance has more power, better handling, and a longer list of both luxuries and technologies than anything else in the Acura lineup. Yet it starts at just $73,500 — more than the starting price of the BMW X5 yet well under what you’d pay for a top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz GLE.
Let’s explore the most upscale 2024 MDX you can buy.
Type S Performance, Advance Tech
In Acura nomenclature, a Type S edition is a high-performance version of a vehicle. Type S models usually come with a more powerful engine (check) and Acura’s sharp Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) system for added cornering skill (check). For the flagship, upgrades include an adaptive air suspension system, too. The MDX Type S can be found for $68,150.
An Advance package, on the other hand, is about technology and interior features. Advance models get upgraded sound systems, sometimes bigger and better infotainment screens, and other high-tech goodies.
On the MDX, the Advance adds luxuries like massaging seats and quilted leather upholstery. The Type S Advance starts at $73,500.
2024 Acura MDX Type S Advance Features:
Other features you’ll find on the fully loaded 2024 Acura MDX Type S Advance include:
- A 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 engine making 355 horsepower
- 10-speed automatic transmission
- Super Handling All-Wheel Drive
- Integrated Dynamics System with Individual mode
- Adaptive air suspension system
- Agile Handling Assist
- Jewel-eye LED headlights
- Auto-on/off headlight operation with wiper integration
- Heated, power-folding side mirrors with reverse gear tilt-down
- Panoramic moonroof with tilt and slide function
- Power liftgate with hands-free access and walk away close
- Acoustic laminated windshield and front side glass
- Remote-operated windows and moonroof-open function
- Roof rails
- LED fog lights
- 16-way adjustable heated and ventilated sport seats with power lumbar support, thigh extension, side bolsters, and 9-way massage function
- Perforated Milano premium leather and Ultrasuede-trimmed interior with contrast stitching and piping
- Heated outboard rear seats
- Multifunction second row with removable middle seat
- Tri-zone automatic climate control with humidity control and air filtration
- GPS-linked climate control
- Open-pore wood trim
- Ambient LED lighting with 27 color themes
- Stainless steel footrest and pedals
- Push-button ignition
- ELS Studio Sound Signature Edition audio system with 25 speakers
- Amazon Alexa
- USB charging ports in all three rows
- Qi wireless charging pad
- Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration
- Acura navigation system with 3D view
- Natural language voice recognition
- 12.3-inch HD dual-content center display
- 12.3-inch HD Precision Cockpit digital instrument cluster
- CabinTalk intercom system
A few of our favorite features:
ELS Studio Sound Signature Edition Audio System
Who was the recording engineer behind your current car? It’s a bit of an odd question with most vehicles. But not with the MDX.
Flagship luxury models usually include sound systems with extraordinary numbers behind them, but the system found in the MDX also has an extraordinary name behind it. The ‘ELS’ in the ELS Studio Sound Signature Edition audio system is Elliot Scheiner. He’s the audio engineer behind Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” Steely Dan’s “Aja,” Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You,” and more. The man has eight Grammys on his resume.
And the MDX has 25 speakers he helped design and tune.
Car critics tend to become accidental sound system critics because we spend a lot of time in cars. The 25-speaker system in the MDX Type S Advance is one of our favorites. Whether your tastes run to the Foo Fighters or B.B. King, Elliot Scheiner has worked with them all, and he designed this system to make their music sound its best.
2 Years Complimentary Maintenance, AcuraLink App Services
Owning a luxury car is only partly about sumptuous surroundings. It’s also partly about personalized treatment from the dealership.
Acura includes two years of 24,000 miles of free regularly scheduled maintenance with the MDX.
Its AcuraLink app gives you smartphone control over your car — you can start and stop the engine, lock and unlock the doors remotely from your phone, and send destinations to the car’s navigation system from a distance. AcuraLink also helps you find the vehicle in a crowded parking lot and even have the car notify your phone if it leaves a designated area (ahem, parents?) You can schedule that free maintenance and see vehicle health reports from anywhere.
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