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Road Test: 2022 Acura RDX SH-AWD A-Spec Advance

Clean Fleet Report

The Acura RDX has been one of the best-selling compact premium SUVs since 2006, and has sold more than 50,000 every year since 2015. With this success you had better bet folks at Acura were careful when doing a light restyle for the 2022 RDX, with a refresh of the exterior, interior and suspension plus added standard technology.

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Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

Green Car Congress

Honda plans to introduce these models to the North American market as model year 2024 vehicles, one from Honda brand and the other from the Acura brand. Honda is conducting independent research on all-solid-state batteries in order to increase the capacity and lower the cost of the next generation batteries for its electrified vehicles.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

& The first Guidestar test models in late 1994 were implemented in the San Jose, California area, distributed once again through Avis rental outlets. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5 Information was presented to the driver via a four-inch color LCD screen, with seven different LCD keys used for inputs.

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Event: WAJ Media Day: A Million Dollar Drive

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A Taste of 10 Different Cars Along the California Coast. The event was held in last week in Half Moon Bay, California. Acura TLX Type S. Acura TLX Type S. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Story and photos by John Faulkner. This is just a taste.

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News: 2024 Mazda CX-90

Clean Fleet Report

News: 2024 Mazda CX-90 An All-New Three-Row SUV Mazda brought the automotive media to Malibu, California, this week to reveal the all-new 2024 CX-90 three-row, eight-passenger SUV. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Photos by John Faulkner and Mazda. [

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Road Test: 2021 Cadillac XT5 Premium Luxury FWD

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Competing in the premium midsize SUV category, the 2021 Cadillac XT5 is right in the middle of stiff competition, including models from Acura, Audi, BMW, Genesis, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla and Volvo. Cadillac’s Midsize Contender. goes from six to four cylinders under certain power demands.

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Road Test: 2022 Genesis GV70 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige

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In 386 miles driving through Southern California, aided by the start/stop (where the engine shuts off when not needed), we averaged 23.7 The GV70 competes against premium small SUVs including the Acura RDX , Audi Q3, BMW X3, Buick Envision , Lexus NX , Lincoln Corsair, Mercedes-Benz GLC, Tesla Model Y and the Volvo XC60.

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