Acura’s least expensive sedan, the ILX, has luxurious upgrades for 2016, including a quieter interior, a handsome LED-accented exterior and improved performance – all at a reasonable price.
In fact, pricing is so aggressive that a 2016 ILX with a full suite of the latest safety technologies, such as collision mitigation warning and braking, lane-keeping assist and road departure mitigation, barely breaks the $30,000 mark with destination charge included.
Good luck finding all those features in a Mercedes, Audi or BMW sedan for that price.
The nicely sized and scaled compact ILX also has revised suspension and an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission for the first time. And it now comes with only one four-cylinder engine – a naturally aspirated 201-horsepower unit with 10 more foot-pounds of torque than last year’s most powerful four-cylinder ILX engine.
Other major changes: The ILX gasoline-electric hybrid model is gone, as is the ILX manual transmission.