2014 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD review notes - Autoweek
Acura’s quirky take on the hybrid luxury sedan. While some now celebrate dearly departed Saab’s steadfast adherence to quirkiness, Acura is playing the quirk-card pretty hard and for their trouble, receiving levels of interest and enthusiasm that would have made the pre-GM Saab reconsider... So, maybe quirk alone doesn’t do it. But, going to rear-wheel drive and building cars that leave the Germans in a smoldering pile just off to the side of the Nurburgring doesn’t do it either. Like a lot of Acuras, the RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD is a car that doesn’t seem to be built with the aim of competing with a car from another manufacturer. But among them, the closest analogue to the RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD is probably the Infiniti Q50 Hybrid with all-wheel drive, but that car is around $20K cheaper than this one. It’s another Acura that seems like it came into being in a vacuum, totally unpolluted by considerations of what the other automakers are up to. And if you judge it that way, meaning you don’t put it in “would you rather” scenarios with other cars,... Others do a better job of masking the unpleasant brake feel of the regenerative brakes, but the Acura’s brakes don’t take much getting used to. The center stack infotainment thing isn’t as intuitive as some, but it’s mostly useful and it works... It’s not a bad car to drive, the weird array of park, reverse, drive buttons are. Source: autoweek.com
