2016 Acura ILX

2016 Acura ILX

2016 Acura ILX Starting with a manufacturer's recommended retail fee (MSRP) of $27,900, the 2016 Acura ILX boasts extra strength, stepped forward managing, extra expensive appointments and more youthful, sporty styling. The 2016 ILX also expands patron choice with 3 fundamental grades - the same old ILX, the ILX with Premium Package, and the line-topping ILX Tech Plus Package, supplemented by using the addition of the all-new AcuraWatch™ Plus and A-SPEC Packages.

The Acura ILX captures a better percent of young luxury shoppers, below age 35, than any other vehicle on this developing entry-luxurious sedan phase. The improvements made to the 2016 version are designed to make the ILX even more attractive to upwardly cellular younger consumers looking for upmarket high-quality and performance.

The ILX's new 2.Four-liter, sixteen-valve, direct-injected DOHC i-VTEC engine produces peak output of 201 horsepower at 6,800 rpm and 180 lb.-ft. Of torque at three,six hundred rpm, up 51 horsepower and forty lb.-toes. Compared to the outgoing 2.Zero-liter engine. The new engine is mated to a brand new eight-pace dual clutch transmission (8DCT) with torque converter and paddle-managed Sequential Sport Shift. The new 8DCT is the maximum advanced transmission in its competitive set, delivering particularly short, crisp and intuitive equipment adjustments, including rev-matching down shifts, to acquire awesome response and carrying performance with pinnacle-magnificence fuel performance, with an EPA rating of 25/36/29 mpg town/hwy/combined.

To make the maximum of its excessive performance new powertrain, steering responsiveness and linearity are progressed via a retuned suspension and some of chassis design improvements. With these changes the 2016 ILX delivers an athletic, confident and balanced driving overall performance.

With form following function, the reborn ILX sports activities a bolder, extra exclusive front end highlighted through piercing Jewel Eye™ LED headlights, a new grille layout, and extra aggressive lower fascia; a restyled rear end offers new LED mixture lights and lower fascia enhancements; and new 10-spoke 17-inch aluminum alloy wheels. The to be had ILX A-SPEC Package complements the overall performance look even extra by using including sporty facet sill garnishes, a trunk spoiler, front fog lights, new 18-inch 10-spoke machined alloy wheels, and several specific indoors look touches.

Inside, the 2016 ILX is luxurious-quiet, benefitting from additional noise-insulating substances, thicker the front door glass, noise-attenuating wheels, and the adoption of Active Noise Control technology. Interior refinement keeps with styling improvements inclusive of upgraded substances, contrasting Euro-fashion sewing at the steering wheel, parking-brake deal with and shift knob, as well as new excessive-depth silver trim for the device panel and other areas. The A-SPEC package complements the splendid cabin enchantment and appointments with an extraordinary Premium Black indoors coloration scheme along with a black headliner, perforated black Lux Suede® seat inserts, crimson device illumination, distinctive gray indoors sewing and aluminum brake and throttle pedals.

Adding luxurious appointments to the sporty interior, the 2016 ILX gives an abundance of widespread and to be had excessive-give up features and technologies, such as heated the front seats, Bluetooth® HandsFreeLink®, Smart Entry/Push-Button Start keyless get admission to machine, one-touch turn indicators, GPS-connected automated weather manage and LED accessory lighting fixtures. A 7-inch On Demand Multi-Use Display™ (ODMD) touch screen (Premium and Tech Plus grades), placed at the instrument-panel middle stack, controls these and other capabilities, and features contextual menus, displaying relevant items even as minimizing tool-panel clutter. The evolved contact-display connectivity and media machine receives more than 50 layout changes to decorate intuitive operation and capability.

The ILX Tech Plus additionally functions the following technology of AcuraLink®, Acura's cloud-based linked-automobile system, providing Acura proprietors a huge range of cloud-primarily based and embedded comfort, connectivity and to be had protection capabilities. Siri™ Eyes Free is fashionable on Premium and higher grades. And Tech Plus grades can be prepared with the Acura Navigation System with 3D view, proposing and AcuraLink Real-Time Traffic™ with Traffic Rerouting.

The Tech Plus grade with AcuraWatch™ and embedded Acura Navigation provides a shade Multi-facts Display (MID) among the tachometer and speedometer and Acura/ELS Studio® top rate audio machine in conjunction with the contemporary era of AcuraLink related-car era. Also available for the primary time (on the Premium Package) is a new tethered navigation machine powered by the user's well suited iPhone and records plan via the AcuraLink navigation app. Premium fashions additionally get more suitable audio alternatives, such as SiruisXM® radio, HD Radio™, Pandora® and Aha™ integration, and HDMI connectivity.

The 2016 ILX is newly to be had with the AcuraWatch™ suite of superior protection and motive force-assistive technologies, the most advanced gadget of its kind inside the aggressive set. AcuraWatch™ consists of Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist System, a Multi-View Rear Camera with Dynamic Guidelines, in addition to Road Departure Mitigation and a Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (including Forward Collision Warning) with sensor fusion era that permits new capabilities, such as pedestrian sensing. AcuraWatch™ is fashionable at the Tech Plus Package and optional on the usual ILX. Premium and Tech Plus grades also get Acura's blind spot facts and Cross Traffic Monitor feature.

The ILX is equipped with Acura's next-technology Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) frame shape and is designed to achieve pinnacle protection ratings - a five-Star Overall Vehicle Score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and a TOP SAFETY PICK+ score from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), including a GOOD score within the IIHS' small-overlap frontal collision check.

Additional wellknown protection and motive force-assistive features include Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) with traction manage, an Expanded View Driver's Mirror, dual-level, a couple of-threshold the front airbags, driving force and the front passenger SmartVent™ side airbags, facet curtain airbags, a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS), and pedestrian harm-mitigation design features.

Engine Block, Crankshaft and Pistons

The ILX's engine has a light-weight die-solid aluminum block with a single predominant-bearing cradle layout that creates a inflexible meeting to help limit noise and vibration. Cast-in iron cylinder liners offer long-lasting durability. Each magazine on the forged-metallic crankshaft is micropolished to lessen internal friction. To enhance smoothness in the course of the rpm variety and help decrease noise levels, the engine is fitted with an internal balancer unit. Consisting of a couple of chain-pushed counter-rotating shafts positioned in the lower block and included into the oil pan, the balancing machine enables quell the inherent second-order harmonic vibrations that commonly effect inline four-cylinder engines.

To lessen piston-sliding friction, the cylinder bores are offset through 8.Zero mm from the crankshaft. This gives the connecting rods a more favorable angle for the duration of every strength stroke, which reduces facet loading at the pistons and in turn, improves efficiency. The engine features a cast crankshaft for high tension and low friction. Lightweight pistons have a carefully optimized skirt layout to minimize reciprocating weight, and reduced weight minimizes vibration and increases operating efficiency. The piston crowns are dished, to assist keep stable combustion and to optimize distribution of the stratified fuel charge from the direct injector in every cylinder. This close control over the combustion procedure boosts ordinary running efficiency.