Hi, Prius Prime Owner (2018, big screen, 4 seater).

The only things I dislike about the car are the Screen Based HVAC controls (base model with small screen has physical controls), and the lack of Apple Carplay (only applies to my year - supposedly coming in an update, but haven’t been able to confirm).

The prius family…

I read this in Seth Meyers trump impersonation voice. 

Except a honda fit has more interior room. Rear seat room is much larger than most sedans a class up, and trunk space is better too. Fold the seats down and you can use it as a bed. 

I would drive a used honda fit that is on fire and needs every single part replaced before I’d drive a new one of these. They are hopelessly impractical for everything but initial cost and MPG (and being better by 1 or 2 mpg isn’t not enough to make a difference). Once you factor in depreciation they are absolutely…

Skip to 8:25 or so. Or watch the whole thing and learn something.

They haven’t released the specs on the turbo V6, so you can’t say it’s a less powerful V6. It’ll be in the S4/C43 AMG range power wise, but again, specs aren’t out yet. Also, it will be exclusively SH-AWD for the Type S, which is a good thing. They new Compact Type S car coming will be Acuras answer to the Civic Type…

There is a compact Type S sports car coming in the next year, with the launch of the following type S models. Once the TLX-S drops, the MDX-S and compact sports car-S will come afterwards.

It would probably be much more worth while (and smarter) to buy a used POS to learn manual on, not a potentially $40-50,000 lifted, wide, cumbersome off road machine.

I’ve tried LEDs and HIDs in halogen projectors, and no, they’re not always better. I didn’t go extremely high end with either, but the beam pattern below the cut off was weaker, and didn’t light up evenly. Stern said above that it’s basically a crap shoot, with most cases not being as even or properly dispersed as a…

Toyota still has everyone beat, best of both worlds!

Gear indicators can be helpful for diagnostics, slipping between X gear to Y gear, etc. It’s also helpful to have more informations closer to your line of sight, so there will be some redundancy.

But boy to I have time to shit all over it!

the system uses g sensors to determine where and how much torque goes rearward or frontward.

You’ve described all forced induction engines, they trade off peak power unless they’re severely over-turbo’d. Also, this car has a 10 speed transmission, so it’s going to bounce off the redline fast and frequently.

All SH-AWD systems can send up to 70% of the power to the rears, with the original RL having one of the highest side to side over-acceleration rations of them all.

Is it? Again, details have not been released yet, and there is a new platform (not shared or used before) and new engines coming out. It shares nothing with the 10G Accord, except parent company. The 2019 RDX released on an exclusive chassis, and it’s been the number 1 seller in it’s category since it released. I’m…

IF you want to compare cars, use the current systems, not one based from 2015. The 2019/202 RDX infotainment is one of the better ones I’ve used. I went on a long cruise the first day I tried using it, and I had it down within half an hour. It’s also far less distracting, as your eyes are close to your regular view vs…

Sorry, I had the quote wrong in my memory.

“It sits on the same Global Mid-Size Platform that underpins the new Accord, but it shares only the Accord’s floor stampings. Everything above the floorpan, “…everything you can see,” according to Acura chief Mike Accavitti, is new and unique.”

It shares the floor, but they…

Ah yes, all that Torque you use high up in the rev range.

It doesn’t share it’s platform. The RDX doesn’t have double wishbone suspension, neither does the Accord (Accord uses the old 2015 TLX platform now).