Six Reasons Why You Need an Acura RDX in Vancouver

Living in Vancouver is the perfect mix between an urban lifestyle and west coast living. You have trendy restaurants where you want to look your best, and gorgeous hiking and riding trails that bring out the woodsman (or woman) in you. With a crossover lifestyle, you need a car that works for both the city and the great outdoors. As a premium sports crossover, the new Acura RDX boasts a few hundred reasons to be on the top of your list while going car shopping this year. Read on for our top reasons why an Acura RDX is the perfect car for the people lucky enough to live in Vancouver, B.C.

Reliability:

The Acura RDX is one of the most reliable cars in its class. In fact, RepairPal gives it a massive reliability rating of 4.5 out of 5 with an average annual maintenance of $497, much lower than other luxury compact SUVs in the same category. Basically, you can take your Acura RDX anywhere you want to go in and around Vancouver without worrying about how much it’s going to cost you.

It Oozes Style:

You want your car to look good when you’re picking up a date or handing the keys over to the valet at your favourite restaurant. Actually, you want your car to look good even if it’s sitting in your garage. Period. The Acura RDX is a stunner. A bold 3D front grille, shark gray wheels, stylish Jewel-Eye head and taillights and a panoramic sunscreen makes the RDX an instant eye catcher. The choice of chromatic colours - Performance Red Pearl, Liquid Carbon Metallic, Majestic Black Pearl, Platinum White Pearl, Phantom Violet Pearl, and Apex Blue Pearl – lets you reflect your personal style.

It Feels Luxe:

The interiors of the Acura RDX let you know that your car is a cut above the rest. The interiors boast build quality and sporty styling with Ultrasuede™ leather seats and premium cabin features, flat bottom steering, and loads of cabin space. The interiors get even better as you work your way up the trims.

It's also spacious! When the 60/40-split rear seats are folded down, the Acura RDX has room to spare with up to 79.8 cubic feet of cargo volume. Behind the rear seats alone is 29.5 cubic feet of space of storage. You’ll love the shrewdly engineered rear cargo underfloor storage that can be accessed in any seating configuration - a huge advantage on reaching any of your supplies easily on a road trip.

The Performance of a Lifetime:

You want a car that’s easy to drive and the Acura RDX responds to the lightest of touches – whether you’re on the highway or a dirt road. Designed to excite, the acceleration and agility the RDX offers is thrilling to say the least. A 10-speed automatic gear shift with paddlers makes you one with its performance. The RDX boasts 4 driving modes to choose from -Snow, Comfort, Normal and Sport— the Integrated Dynamics System™ lets you switch driving dynamics easily while you’re on the road. With an impressive 0-60 mph in less than 7 seconds, this sports crossover is equipped with Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) which connects all four tires to the road.

Technology made Affordable:

The tech in the car goes beyond what you will find in many base models of other luxury cars. A ll variants come loaded with a large 10.2-inch touchscreen on the dashboard (that can also be operated with a touchpad on the center console), wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility and a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you’re a huge music buff, with the ‘Technology’ add on package, you can have up to a 16 speaker high quality ELS Studio audio system.

Safety:

With a car that responds to your touch so easily, you want it to be equipped with the best safety features too. The RDX comes loaded and geared with ACURAWATCH™ - a suite of innovative safety and driver-assistive technologies engineered to help enhance driver awareness, avoid collisions, and assess and reduce the severity of an impact. The Acura Watch comes with incredible technology for enhanced safety such as Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM), Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Pedestrian Detection, and Traffic Sign Recognition.

If that isn’t impressive enough for you - based on the variant you choose, additional features like the Rear Cross Traffic Monitor and the Blind Spot Information (BSI) systems help further improve driver attention and alertness.

The Acura RDX takes a five-seater crossover sports car experience to a new level. It is stylish, roomy, powerful, adventurous, and safe – perfect for your west coast lifestyle.

As a member of the Dilawri Group of Companies, Burrard Acura is your premier retailer for new and used Acura vehicles in the Vancouver region. Get in touch with us to test drive an Acura RDX and change your life forever.