This Car is Better Than a Lexus

rev up your engines today i'm going to show you the newly redesigned acura mdx why waste your money on a mercedes-benz suv when you get just about everything that's on them in a japanese car that doesn't break down and costs about one-third of what the mercedes cost now if you watch my video on the mercedes suv be other guy hated it and he paid 150 60 thousand dollars for the thing and it kept recalling in the mirror whistled well the only similarity between this and a mercedes is they're both built in the united states of the mercedes it was made in alabama didn't have such great quality control this one's made by honda motor company then acura and they are insanely built realized honda and acura have built millions and millions of cars in ohio and in other parts of the united states they know what they're doing i of course like the japanese made ones but really you know the engine comes from japan the transmission all that stuff but what makes this an interesting car is if you know anything about cars for a while people weren't buying these they saw them as too old stoji they were buying a lexus with all the fancy stuff nothing wrong with the lexus but they decided they're going to compete and they've made a really interesting vehicle as you're going to see now with prices as insane as they are the guy paid around sixty thousand dollars for the car but what a car you get for sixty thousand dollars now this thing has the honda vectoring all-wheel drive system you'll see when you're driving it handles ice snow you name it it's made for driving now the first thing you'll notice is it's an suv but it's relatively low to the ground they deliberately made it that way so when you add an all-wheel drive system with torque vectoring and the fact that it's lower this thing handles infinitely better than say the lexus suvs i've tried them both this is much better this is an actual three row car the problem with some of the lexuses they got three rows and there's no room in the back their heads kind of stuck behind a pillar this is completely different like this you don't even have to grab it with your hand check it out it opens itself up to get to the third row of seats and as you can see there's a reasonable amount of space in there plus if you're one of those fanatics about moon roofs which i think kind of kind of stupid but people like them you can have big munu so if you want to open it up and screaming the other people in youtube videos feel free i like it because it has actual chrome now when we open it up this is a dr jekyll mr hyde this one's dirty now but that's because they've got this down well if you want to be clean you just flip it upside down and then it's dirtier yeah it's sturdier on that side but when you vacuum it all it's all clean inside you got them all kinds of space when you put them down you got to move that seat up a little further they get down but you get the idea you can carry a lot of stuff when these you move those seats down you can bring a baby elephant if you want now the one downside of this car is what's under the hood it's luxury so there's no proper there's hydraulics and it's an excellent engine but it's got one problem now it's a very reliable very powerful engine but at the same time it's a pretty big vehicle even though it's lowered you don't buy one of these to get gas mods don't even think about it his mother gets 17 miles a gallon he got 13 driving over here in sport mode so don't expect a gas mileage on this thing that's not what it's about oh look the full carbon fiber well what do people use carbon fiber for weights less right well the weight reduction obviously didn't work out too well if he's getting 13 miles a gallon in the thing and i gotta say honda is still living in the past 2022. look at it it's still got a timing belt a rubber timing belt but i'm never gonna wise up and put time and chains on these things i truthfully think honda will not on their v6s because like everybody else they're all going into electric cars and hybrid electric cars take my son's year old toyota sienna hybrid it doesn't have the toyota sienna v6 engine it's got the four-cylinder engine with the hybrid and they'll probably end up doing the same thing they won't have a v6 hybrid they would make a four cylinder and the honda four-cylinder engines they've had timing chains for ages in them too they just i guess don't want to go through the r d and change everything just for a belt versus a chain and who knows maybe they have this asian idea that will make a lot of money changing the timing belts or if they break then the engines will go and we'll sell an expensive engine or even better we'll sell them another car but maybe that isn't me they run fine you just gotta change it every hundred thousand miles and when you get the bill for that you kind of wonder why they didn't put a chain in in the first place after all it is a sixty thousand dollar car now here's a really interesting thing it has a 10 speed marvelous transmission that honda makes and they tout it as having all kinds of power and efficiency but i got to disagree on the efficiency i mean if he's getting 13 miles a gallon his mother very conservative getting 17. it's not all that efficient because if you remember a couple years ago i was in one of those giant ford expeditions and it had a 10 speed ford transmission in it the one that gm and ford made together and then they split apart like cats and dogs fighting right but i got like 27 miles a gallon in that thing and that was a huge expedition so i got to save the power yes gas mileage no now if you notice it's got a classic nice smooth hood they don't have any bumps sticking out so check this out the air intake is built on the bottom side comes through here and then goes into the engine this way it's pretty interesting you can see there is a tremendous amount of working room on this thing but then again it's a honda you may never have to work on this thing but still much to my happiness the beauty cover is pretty small you know you get to see the engine this i don't mind at all because of course we got all kinds of stuff inside here for sucking the air and then filtering stuff and i don't mind that at all it's not covering up the nice part of the engine that you can see let's look inside it's just like that bronco it's got all kinds of pictures and sounds it's got the wireless charging fan oh look we're like a fighter jet air fire one fire two it also has a brake hold which is pretty handy automatic start stop there and yes you can turn it off i advise turning it off if an engine keeps turning itself on and off 90 something percent of your wear occurs on startup so you keep wearing your engine out not a good idea to use it and hey his mother doesn't turn it off and it still only gets 17 miles a gallon with a conservative driver so really so much of the automatic start stop i think it's a bunch of crap hand-stitched leather this to me is a much higher quality car than the mercedes that costs three times as much look it's got the 360 there's a matrix you can get different views i mean this thing is really tricked out and i like the mercedes not as broken yet now we have air condition heated seats both sides if you want to pay a little extra you get the massaging seat i find it kind of weird i tried one when i was driving it really kind of distracts you from the road so i don't advise buying that feature unless you want to park and use it it's kind of weird while you're driving and of course you got all these dynamic modes you put in snow it's in the snow comfort normal and of course he drives all the time at sport then you can customize it for yourself if you want it's got lane control automatic cruise control watches in front of you it's a pretty much technological marvel but let's see how it goes i wonder what this donut flying in the air is that's the speedometer it's got a heads-up panel too so you don't have to look off the road to see how fast you're going and watch when you put it in reverse look the mirrors do they tilt down so you see behind better and if you or perhaps your wife has a tendency of hitting curbs well it's kind of hard to kind of curb when you got a picture of the tire and you can see exactly where you're sitting they have no one to blame but yourself for hitting the car i didn't see it let's see how this thing goes it really goes makes a nice sound too and this is a normally aspirated engine this isn't a turbo i can see why they think it's 13 miles a gallon quite an impressive ride i must say aside from the bad gas mileage hey it's everything anybody's going to want in a vehicle like this for what it is if you don't mind a bad gas mileage it's certainly an excellent vehicle he bought it for his mother she wanted something luxurious and now of course she's spoiled but then again with the mileage they're driving this thing might not last or who knows i mean i've seen older ones with 250 on them and they're still going okay if you're looking for actual luxury that holds up i would say goodbye to mercedes-benz you could buy three of these for the price of one mercedes and then you definitely would never have to buy another car the rest of your life because that would last for who knows a million miles or more they're an interesting vehicle gas mileage aside they really are a luxury suv there's no arguing and i like the lowerness it really handles so much better than the lexuses i you can't even compare how they handle so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] [Music] foreign

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022