Article: Driving the Acura RDX in the Hills of Malibu
04-12-2012, 04:48 PM
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Article: Driving the Acura RDX in the Hills of Malibu
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My wife has the 2007 RDX which we love. I have two huge issues with the car, and hopefully they fixed them in the new model: 1) At highway speed the car is very noisy, partially from wind noise and partially from tire noise. It makes it nearly impossible to enjoy the radio at a normal level. This brings me to complaint 2) The radio/speakers are the worst I've ever had in a car. The system in my 2002 CL-S is 1000 times better. Part of it is less noise from the car, but I most of it is the speaker placement in the RDX and the lousy speakers. Having a sub-woofer in the rear of the RDX is useless. There is almost no mid-level frequencies from the speaker system. At highway speeds it's as though I'm listening to a cheap transistor radio. I hope they fixed these problems. Other than these two items, the car has been a pleasure, but when we look for another car to replace it, there is a 99.9% chance we won't get another RDX based on the horrendous noise level at highway speed.