Yep, they've graced the whole line with that god-awful grille. It's tolerable on the TSX, since it's an angular, edgy style, but it just plain sucks with the more flowing styling of the RL and the TL. It begs the question "What the hell were they thinking?"

Whenever I look at the front end, all I can think of is a parrotfish, which has a beak like that.







I'm pretty confident this was their inspiration. 

Hah. Maybe they can change their slogan to "The New Fish on the Block"

That isnt a good pic though, it might look better in person.   

If they DO drop the 3.7-liter and SH-AWD in, they're going to be in a similar boat to the new RL ... EPA ratings that have sagged to 16/22. IOW, abysmal.

The 3.7 is a pretty gutsy engine, but unfortunately it's also thirsty, and the AWD just absorbs some more gas. IMO, Acura is going the wrong way ... rather than give up on FWD, they're trying to band-aid it with their SH-AWD system. It's a good system, but it adds expense, frictional losses, and complexity, and lowers the already low mileage ratings even further.

Acura : Give it up ... people south of the Mason-Dixon don't want the expense, complexity and reduced economy of AWD. So go to RWD like the rest of the near-lux market. FWD is for econocars. A RWD TL with better build quality than the last-gen, a better grille, and a good direct-injection V-6 would give the Infiniti G a run for its money and even steal sales from the Camry-based Lexus ES350.

Well yeah everything is in the front... there's no way for them to offset that weight in the back without intentionally weighing down the trunk.  I suspect the AWD helps some but not a lot.

It's SUPER-HANDLING!! It fixes EVERYTHING.. duh

Well Acura is like what all honda civic drivers aspire for, so you have to keep that in context, lol