The new 2025 Acura MDX has dropped with big beats and a big screen

I absolutely loved the last MDX Type-S I drove. It was bright blue with red-faced gauges in sport mode. The thing had beans. Stab the throttle and the big blue went like a stabbed rabbit. I had trouble finding anything wrong with it, until I tried to use touch… nope. It wasn’t a touchscreen. Acura seemed to have listened to me because they’ve ditched it.

Ditching the non-touchscreen isn’t the only upgrade for 2025. Upfront you’ll notice more aggressive styling to match the top-of-the-line Type-S, which will also have the Advance Package available that unlocks more technology and a ‘banging’ Bang and Olufsen stereo. Acura is touting the stereo as the most powerful audio system yet with 31 speakers and a total of 1,760 watts of power. Thirty-one speakers?! I’m imagining an entire speaker as the interior and when you realize there are 12 tweeters alone in the headliner, it just might be. 

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The aggressiveness is framed on the A-Spec by the front fascia with a frameless “Diamond Pentagon” grill, new grill mesh, and blacked-out treatments. The Type-S gets an open-surface mesh to aid in providing more air to the V6 turbo and out back with a rear diffuser, quad exhausts, 21” wheels, and red Brembo calipers.

With pricing starting at $50,900 for a base FWD MDX, you’ll need another fourteen grand ($74,950) to get the Type-S with Advance Package to get the AcuraWatch 360 with its front-facing cameras, millimeter wave radar, Active Lane Change Assist, Lane Collision Mitigation, and Front Cross Traffic Warning.

Personally, the last MDX I drove was the top-of-the-line Type-S and I found the lane change assist a bit aggressive. The car itself sounded amazing and was quick for its size. It had all the Honda/Acura magic in a big three-row SUV. That being said, I’d opt for the Type-S and ignore or turn off the nannies. 

– M. T. Blake

(www.mtblake.net / IG @_mtblake)

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