Acura RL

Acura RL was the Division of Honda vehicles built 1996-2012 for two generations produces full-size luxury sedan. Acura RL was the flagship of the brand that the Acura Legend succeed, and was replaced in 2013 by the Acura RLX. All models of the Legend, Acura RL, Acura RLX lines and adapted from the Japanese domestic market Honda Legend. The model name "RL" is an abbreviation for "Refined Luxury."

The Acura RL is a first-generation version of the third generation Honda Legend rebadged, and was presented for the first time in the North American market in 1996 to replace the Acura Legend second generation. The second generation of Acura RL is a rebadged version of the fourth generation Honda Legend to be submitted to the North American market in September 2004, as a model 2005. Get this iteration of generations of RL wide mid facelift for the 2009 model year and another update to the third generation debuted for the 2011 model year 2014 Acura RLX.

Acura RL First Generation (1996-2004)

In 1996, the Acura RL 3.5, internally as "KA9" to replace the legend. Acura Legend was called, when the market research has shown that consumers know the names Acura model itself, "legend" and "Integra", not necessarily link the name to Honda, the brand "Acura". It was installed by the 3.5RL longitudinal center line in its V6 engine line will be installed on the vehicle and not the axis transverse direction (ie, 90 degrees offset from the axis of the vehicle) that most cars front-olwyn- driving others. This longitudinal location to smaller turning radius and easy maneuverability allows in-town, a 56/44 front / rear weight distribution. The end of 1998, the 1999 facelift front and rear lights 3.5RL integrated fog, revised bumpers and bonnet, driver and passenger side airbags. The suspension and chassis are reinforced and new alloy wheels offer.

In 1999, the navigation system screen larger for the model year 2000 recorded. Along with the larger screen came the change to DVD easily replace databases map. In 2001, the model year 2002 received 3.5RL trim lower, new alloys and more filters with new, sportier suspension tuning painting. Perhaps the most important change was the engine that has been upgraded to produce 225 hp at (168 kW) and 231 pounds · ft (313 Nm) of torque. More insulation was MY2002 included in the engine compartment added. In the year 2002 2003 received a clear indicator lenses RLS in the rear lights, new alloy wheel design and a number of other interior upgrades with new colors. For 2004, the navigation system is standard, center console and door contracts with chrome lock redesigned.

Acura RL Second Generation (2005-2012)

A new generation of cars, internally as "KB1" the end of 2004 is presented for the model year 2005. Still without the much-rumored V8 engine, it seems all-wheel drive sophisticated Acura as "Super All Wheel Drive-treated "(SH-AWD). It integrates operational differences with all-wheel-drive system and traction control to handle, similar to the system "STGA" Honda Prelude SH 1997 on the improvement easy. At the time of its introduction, the Acura RL SH-AWD system was the all-wheel-drive first to vary the distribution of power, not only from front to back, but also in the back side with torque vectoring page a technique called. RL can take up to 70% of torque available to the rear wheels, and up to 100% of the reserve available torque will be directed on to the wheel. In conjunction with a specially developed planetary About the campaign, the rear wheels up to speed 5% higher than the front wheels, directing torque to one wheel torque vectoring or, in effect steering. When the car accelerates to curve, torque to the rear wheel out of vectorized tail around faster as the time to push out to cause a rowboat oars paddles faster than the inside wheel to turn to 'the rowboat to reduce heavy vehicle sub-before-normal,

New features of the 2005 Acura RL include key-less entry system that the driver is allowed to lock and unlock the car door by the handle without the remote control and key-less start system. A 260 watt, ten-speaker Bose audio DVD-Audio system 5.1 new right for the cabin RL provided a number of technologies Bose. Bose Audio pilot noise compensation technology, analyzes the background noise cabin environment and uses an algorithm based on the acoustics of the cabin to increase some parts of the music signal, so that they can be heard clearly on the "chaos" of sound environmental without any noticeable change in the volume. Bose Centerpoint surround sound stereo recordings and matrix-processing, in order to permit the reproduction by the audio system 5.1, even if the source can only be a stereo soundtrack. Active Noise Cancellation Bose (ANC) complete the suite. Always on whether or not the stereo was, ANC took input from two microphones in the booth set up to analyze low frequency sound waves associated with powertrain into the cabin. The information sent to the ANC system to create sound audio signal exactly the shape and gradually-door speakers and subwoofer of time. The result was a significant reduction of the engine and exhaust noise.

Acura RL 2005 was also the first vehicle, the body structure Advanced Compatibility Engineering Honda (ACE), as all Honda Acura vehicles scheme recently introduced have greatly increased use. The ACE structure includes extensive use of high strength steel and lightweight aluminum components in mainframe multilateral front, designed to engage vehicles of different size and weight of the front and distributes impact forces from the more structured way, while avoiding or reduce cabin deformation, in practice, this means a SUV to a car crash ACE-structure, there is more chance that the structure of the body frame SUV ACE engagement and disperse crash energy around the passenger compartment. Auto-ACE structures in the conventional frame SUV without much greater chance of missing or overriding the conventional main vehicle structural components and a better chance of deformation of the passenger compartment.

The Acura RL car structure in 2005 extensive use of materials something "exotic" for a car in this price range. These include aluminum alloy in the bonnet, front wings, boot lid and frame, front and rear frame, control arms, knuckles and front bumper. Magnesium has been used in the inlet manifold, and the two-piece drive shaft is made of composite carbon means reinforced. Acura RL aerodynamic design that provided much of the treatment, including details such as side windows flush industry-first and underbody panels and diffusers to reduce lift itself, resulting in a very low drag coefficient of 0.29.

Acura RL Safety

In October 2010, the Acura RL has been named by Consumer Reports as the most reliable car new luxury limousines to one of five Honda models so honored in an appropriate category. The others were the front-wheel-drive version of the Acura TL with upscale sedans, the Honda CR-V SUV small, Acura RDX SUV upscale the small and compact Honda RIDGELINE pickup truck.

From 2005 to 2008 Acura RL has been ranked # 1 and the best car reaches protection score (46.4) in Intelligent Life "risk index values from 2003 to 2009 vehicle". For both the 2009 and 2010 model years of the Acura RL received five-star crash safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). For the year 2009 model, Acura RL and received the Top Safety Pick designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety at (IIHS) awarded the highest score "good" front-potential offset, side impact crash protection tests and back. The Acura RL scores "good" is still to be done for each test in the year 2010 model.

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