What a nice little wagon. The four-cylinder is smooth, smooth, bland and the ability is a bit added than adequate. Adequate seats, acceptable active position, bland gearbox and quick steering–what’s not to like? Too abounding buttons on the centermost animate stack? Hmmm. Maybe.
The exoteric administration didn’t draft me away, but I wouldn’t alarm it animal as some have. Aggregate central feels good, tight, solid and able-bodied congenital from acceptable materials.
The ride is a wee bit harsh, but not ever so.
Overall, this is a added than affable applied little hauler.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR–AUTOWEEK.COM BOB GRITZINGER: Wes took the words appropriate out of my mouth–what a nice little wagon. Though the four-banger ability be on the ablaze ancillary with a abounding load, for best active with one or two bodies on board, it’s added than adequate. It’s a high-revver that pulls able appropriate up to redline.
The basement position is instantly right, with basal fiddling, which seems to set the car up for active active appropriate out of box. Like its auto sibling, the TSX wagon delivers on achievement handling–it’s buried and goes area it’s pointed, admitting its basal front-drive chassis. Does anyone accomplish a added acceptable entry-luxe front-driver than Acura? Maybe Audi, maybe not. There’s a lot to adulation here.
As abundant as we’d like Acura to accord us a stick with this engine, the paddles advice get the best out of the automatic. But alike then, I’d like a added aesthetic way to get in and out of chiral mode, not aloof via alive the centermost about-face akin in and out of S (I accept for Sport) approach to admission chiral paddle shifting.
Finally, the exoteric admeasurement belies the bulk of amplitude in the interior–the absolute burden hold, alike after the seats bankrupt down, seems huge. That affectionate of utility, accumulated with Acura achievement and basal Honda reliability, accomplish this car a champ on several levels.
One accessory annoyance: For an flush model, the abridgement of an extending sun affectation to block the ancillary window seems like an oversight. Alike abundant beneath big-ticket cars now action decidedly added acceptable functionality than this Acura’s visors.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: This car is a bifold dip for me. It’s no abstruse about these genitalia that the Acura TSX is one of my admired cars, and I appear to like wagons a lot, too. I subscribe to the credo that a acceptable cardinal of families can get abroad with a wagon for best of their cargo-carrying needs and that abounding bodies who accept SUVs don’t absolutely charge them.
Before bodies alpha banging abroad on their keyboards in acrimony in the Comments area cogent me I’m an idiot, amuse agenda that I do accept that there are households out there that do charge the appearance offered by beyond and added able agent for assorted affidavit (like towing or to booty a ancestors of eight).
But as I said, I like wagons for the added versatility while advancement a carlike drive character. From a drive standpoint, aggregate from the auto carries over, including the about hyperactive council acknowledgment (that takes some acclimating, but I like a lot), bound administration and adequate ride quality. That’s not too abundant of a abruptness as there is alone a basal weight accretion of 129 pounds for the wagon aback compared with the sedan.
The 2.4-liter is the best four-cylinder on the market, in my opinion. It’s smooth, loves to rev and has amazing burke response. Of course, added ability would consistently be welcome, but at no time did I acquisition myself cerebration that the car acquainted apathetic and underpowered. However, here’s area I accept to afford a few tears. The glossy six-speed chiral chiral is abominably not offered on the wagon model. Instead, the five-speed automated is the alone chiral choice, which operates aloof accomplished with quick and brittle accouterment and is absorbing with a acceptable chiral mode, but it’s still a affliction for drivers. I do accept Acura’s acumen abaft not alms it, as sales would absolutely be absolutely low for a clutch-pedal-equipped TSX wagon.
As for the added cargo-carrying space, there’s a fair bulk here. With the rear seats folded, there’s 60.5 cubic anxiety of space, which is absolutely added than the BMW 328i wagon (54.7 cubic feet) and the Audi A4 Avant (56.5 cubic feet). Again there’s added accumulator beneath the attic in the block and a brace of added nooks and crannies aback there to the side.
Cabin abstracts are high-quality, the advanced brazier seats action acceptable ancillary abutment and the active position is actual comfortable. The centermost assemblage is active with buttons, but acquirements area aggregate is doesn’t booty long.
I like the exoteric profile, too. Overall, this is a handsome little wagon Acura has here. But Acura still needs to do article about the blade/beak grille. I’m accepting a little acclimated to it, but it’s still a abscessed atom on all Acura vehicles. Hopefully, this brand grille goes abroad soon.
2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon
Base Price: $35,470
As-Tested Price: $35,470
Drivetrain: 2.4-liter I4; FWD, five-speed automatic
Output: 201 hp @ 7,000 rpm, 170 lb-ft @ 4,300 rpm
Curb Weight: 3,599 lb
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