O utside of the NSX, which exists on its very own supercar island, it's been years since Acura has demonstrated to us anything fascinating in the method for configuration. From the frump RLX on down, Acura has been a brand woefully needing a configuration defibrillation, which is the reason the new Precision Concept appearing at the Detroit car exhibition is such a major ordeal.
The primary thing you'll notice about the Acura Precision Concept is its striking shape. Taking a page from the now well-worn four-entryway car book, the new idea's wide, low position and long dash-to-hub proportion give it a solid feeling of vicinity. Cleared back A-columns stream easily over a slender nursery with undetectable B-columns, before joining with the back hindquarters and ending with a short decklid. Stout five-talked, 22-inch haggles, simple Michelin Pilot Super Sport summer tires finish the bundle.
Enormous, etched lines shear through the long, 122-inch wheelbase in profile, while short shades accentuate its length. A solid character line beginning from the bowed-out back bumpers extends noticeably toward the front wheel before completion barely short of the front entryway, while profoundly cut rocker ledges reverberate the same line beneath.
In advance, Acura gladly flaunts its new "Precious stone Pentagon" grille, a collapsed Superman-logo-looking face that we can hope to see a considerable measure of pushing ahead. Huge etched air channels outline the new nose, transitioning into thin headlights frosted out with purported Jewel Constellation LED headlights.
Large portions of these outside lines are astutely reflected inside, at times following the state of the auto's fundamental structure. We saw some comparatively imagined outline traps on the Acura NSX (presented beneath), where the uncovered undercarriage structure in advance is coordinated flawlessly into the middle console format. This lets us know Acura is pondering making its new insides as perfect and genuine as in the NSX.
Acura realizes that its looks starting late haven't been precisely arresting. Be that as it may, the new Precision Concept demonstrates that the brand still thinks about configuration enough to appear at one of the world's greatest car stages with an immaculate styling exercise.
"The Acura Precision Concept is more than essentially an idea vehicle, it is an outline study display that truly will shape the heading of all future Acura items around our Precision Crafted Performance DNA," said worldwide imaginative chief Dave Marek, in an announcement.
"The Acura Precision Concept is the main edge of a restored duty to conveying Precision Crafted Performance in each feature of the item encounter and making a capable and extremely energizing course for the up and coming era of Acura models."
We know from the get-go that the Precision doesn't review a particular new auto. Actually, we'd be amazed if Acura even had the nerve to construct another extensive four-entryway extravagance car to catch up that plain bellyflop it calls the RLX. What the idea lets us know is that Acura is at long last quitting any and all funny business about making up for lost time to whatever remains of the business on a configuration front, where contenders like Infiniti and Lexus gone out on a limb, regardless.
Regardless of whether you like this showy and rakish bearing Acura may be going, the Precision Concept demonstrates that there are, in any event, less exhausting days ahead. We think about that as a win.
