Refreshed MDX gains aggressive
front fascia, bolder wheel designs
    
(April 11, 2024) Acura has revealed an extensive refresh of the 2025 MDX, the performance brand's flagship and the best-selling 3-row luxury SUV of all-time. The MDX boasts styling enhancements, a new 12.3-inch touchscreen interface featuring Google built-in, a quieter cabin, improved safety features, and a Bang & Olufsen luxury audio system.

The high-performance 2025 MDX Type S with Advance Package debuts the new AcuraWatch 360 system that introduces more advanced driver assistive capabilities thanks to additional front corner radars, a higher-fidelity front camera, and new front millimeter wave radar. The standard AcuraWatch™ suite of safety and driver assistive technologies on all other MDX grades also features updated hardware for enhanced safety performance.

The 2025 MDX and MDX Type S performance SUVs will begin arriving at Acura dealers nationwide in May.  

"The best never stand still; they keep getting better, and that's what we did with the new 2025 Acura MDX by taking our most popular model and flagship 3-row SUV to a new level, as we continue to advance Precision Crafted Performance at every point in the Acura lineup," said Mamadou Diallo, senior vice president of American Honda Auto Sales.



"We've enhanced MDX in almost every way, adding incredible new tech, a quick and intuitive touchscreen interface, world-class Bang & Olufsen luxury audio and lots more. It's simply the best MDX we've ever made."

New for the 2025 model year is the arrival of the MDX A-Spec with Advance Package, which combines sport appearance with additional premium features including a head-up display, 16-way power front seats, heated outboard second-row seats, heated steering wheel, and Surround View Camera. MDX with Advance Package and MDX A-Spec with Advance Package also feature curvilinear-quilted leather and massaging front seats, previously exclusive to MDX Type S.

At the heart of the MDX Type S is the Turbo V6, a 24-valve, dual-overhead cam 3.0-liter engine that is exclusive to Type S, with direct-injection and a single twin-scroll turbocharger, producing 355 horsepower @ 5,500 rpm and 354 lb.-ft. of torque.

The engine was developed by some of the company's most experienced powertrain engineers, including members of championship winning motorsports programs.

The best performing MDX ever, the turbocharged Type S also features a sport-tuned 10-speed automatic transmission, double-wishbone front suspension, Brembo front brakes and Type S-exclusive Sport+ driving mode. Power is distributed through Acura's Super Handling All-Wheel Drive system with true torque vectoring, which is also available on all MDX models. The rear-biased system is capable of sending up to 70% of torque to the rear axle, and 100% of that to the outside rear wheel.