2016 Acura MDX SH-AWD with 9-Speed Automatic - Car and Driver (blog)
The MDX lists spirited handling as one of its key attributes. All models come with a 290-hp V-6, a nine-speed automatic and front-wheel drive, but we recommend the all-wheel-drive version (known as Super Handling All-Wheel Drive). Instrumented Test – 2016 Acura MDX The 2016 version of Acura’s bestselling model may look the same as last year’s, but there’s a lot going on behind that chiseled visage. For starters, the MDX crossover gets a new ZF nine-speed automatic transmission. Adding three more cogs creates a wider ratio spread than in the previous model’s six-speed, ostensibly helping to keep the MDX’s 290-hp 3. 5-liter V-6 in the more efficient parts of its power and torque bands. Not that last year’s 290-hp/six-speed combo was a laggard, but Acura, like all automakers, is looking to improve the EPA estimates of its vehicles however it can. The MDX storms out of the hole from rest using a 20. 4:1 overall ratio (first-gear ratio times final-drive ratio, not counting help from the torque converter) and sprints to 60 mph in 5. 9 seconds, half a second quicker than the 2014 model we... It then continues on to a 95-mph quarter-mile trap speed in 14. 6 seconds, three-tenths more rapid than the 2014. You’re into second gear before you can finish saying “Acura. Of course, having more gears doesn’t necessarily mean the transmission quickly finds the right gear—as sometimes when tipping in with part throttle at 20 to 35 mph it will lug in a too-tall gear for a. Source: www.caranddriver.com
