2010 Acura Winter Test Experience

This video wasn't made by Acura

LOL flexor. hm i thought it was ok

btw im getting a mdx soon, im so excited :DD

poppaschlong - you are correct - the EDL is a funtion of the ESP. It's not the same as a mechanically locking differential like the old quattros (those were too heavy) but it still gets the job done. That leads me to agree with you that the ESP/traction control was turned off on the Audi. The Acura you can tell had the traction control on. The torque vectoring is only for cornering.

Audi also has torque vectoring technology, BUT NOT IN THE Q7!!!!

sspope - you are correct - the S4 S5 and new A8 have torque vectoring as an option. However, that wouldn't help in this test because that is for cornering. That's why this test seems suspect. It looks like the Acura is the only one with traction control on. None of them have locking differentials on the front and rear - so that has to be the case the Acura has traction control on why it doesn't spin.

Quattro is just a trademarked marketing term Audi applies to all of its vehicles that have any sort of AWD.

The system described in the video is Audi's implementation of a torsen differentials in longitudinal mounted engined cars. In Audi vehicles like the A3 and TT, with transverse mounted engines, use a haldex system

autofanatic1 - the torque vectoring helps in cornering....but how exactly would it help in this test?? something is amiss.

poppaschlong2000 - I agree with you. Any person who is not a fan of any of these vehicles but knows how traction control works can tell that the Audi and Lexus had it turned off and the Acura had it turned on. You can see it braking the wheels on the Acura in the shot from the rear.

The wheels on the Acura arent braking as you stated. It's the AWD system shuffling the power to the wheels with traction. The Q7 had nearly the same reaction.

I don't care about what they say on paper but two things seem "fishy" to me. Why did the driver put the brakes on the Audi Q7 when it was almost to the top and didn't look like it was losing any momentum? When the MDX was going up - why did they keep switching camera angles? It looked like it was slipping at the beginning and then the camera cuts and it's going up smoothly...?? Hmmm