By Holly R.

• Super comfortable seats, which hold you in place nicely when railing corners, accelerating quickly, or just cruising along the freeway
• Easy to drive, easy to see out of and super sexy to look at
• Pure quality on the interior and exterior. Not a rattle, creak, jerk when opening or closing anything
• Really nice luxury features
• Lots of thoughtful (and hidden) cubbyholes for things
• Drives like a dream
• Firm suspension that reminds you that this really has sports-car qualities, yet smooth enough to not be a bone-jarring ride

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By Derek Mau

Pros

• Smooth and supple ride
• Lots of power on demand from a normally aspirated motor
• An abundant number of luxury features makes for happy passengers
• Full iPod integration
• Respectable fuel economy from a 305 hp engine

Cons

• Should have stayed true with the old exterior design

They say beauty is only skin deep. For the redesigned 2009 Acura TL you have to look under the skin to find its true beauty. With a lot of hype surrounding the new motor and suspension setup, I figured a true test for the new TL would be a long road trip. Like a blue-wing teal flying south for the winter, I decided to drive 400 miles from the San Francisco bay area to Los Angeles in search of warmer climate.

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By Kirk Bell

Pros

• Powerful engines
• Sharp steering and handling
• Pleasant ride
• Available all-wheel drive
• Premium audio offered
• Value for the dollar

Cons

• Polarizing styling
• No split-folding rear seat
• Bland base wheels

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Hot-diggity! Acura comes out swinging hard with the redesigned 2009 TL and it looks “good“. Two distinct models are offered and both are heavy hitters with pumped-up engines. The FWD model gets a 3.5L V6, with VTEC®, that puts out a healthy 280 hp and 253 lb-ft of torque. The big news is now a SH-AWD® drive version of the TL is offered and it puts out pumps out more power than the Energizer Bunny with 305 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque from a 3.7L V6 VTEC®engine.

Lots of luxury items and performance features promise to make the 2009 TL a big hit with the home run crowd. We recently drove the new TL and will publish a full review with our impressions the week of September 8. If you haven’t seen too many pictures of the new TL, I included a handful of photos for your viewing pleasure. Official press release and more photos from Acura are below the jump.

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The 2008 Acura TL Type-S provides a blend of comfort, convenience, and sportiness, at a reasonable price. The TL has a 6-Speed Manual Transmission with Performance Tires, 3.5L V6, 286-horsepower engine, an updated vehicle security immobilizer system, two new exterior colors and expansion to 76 metropolitan areas for the AcuraLink real-time traffic system.

Acura TL Type-S Photo Gallery	Acura TL Type-S Specs
The official website of Acura - www.acura.com

By Holly R.

Introduction:
If you have self-control issues, you do *not* want this car. You won’t be able to afford to keep it after all the tickets you’ll get. With that said, this was my first car for a review. Wow, what a car! I was thrilled to drive it, to say the least.

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• Super-stiff suspension (a sedan that drives like a sports car)
• Easy to read gauges and controls
• Super-comfortable seats
• Superb acceleration

Cons:

• Headlamp beam pattern is not good (dark, curvy roads using the low beam setting was downright scary)
• Bluetooth® was too hard to program (of course, I still haven’t been able to program my portable one, so take this criticism with a grain of salt)
• The windows didn’t roll down or up smoothly and it would be hard and frustrating to just crack the window open for some ventilation

Driving Impressions:
I was actually a bit terrified to drive this car. A 6-speed manual transmission! I’ve not driven a stick in almost 10 years! What started off as a somewhat shaky experience, turned into a comfortable ride within just a few miles. Once I hit the freeway, I’d bonded with the car. The car is just plain FUN TO DRIVE! Read the rest of this entry »