2025 Acura ADX Makes World Debut: Expands Acura Lineup from A to Z

- First-ever ADX, an all-new premium compact SUV, boasts youthful design, engaging AWD experience and turbocharged performance to attract a new generation of buyers
- ADX features an upscale, tech-rich interior including a 10.2-inch Acura Precision Cockpit™, 9-inch touchscreen interface with wireless Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™ compatibility, wireless charging pad and a panoramic moonroof – all standard
- Available premium features include ventilated front seats and 15-speaker Bang & Olufsen premium sound system
- 2025 ADX will arrive at Acura dealers early 2025
Acura today unveiled the highly anticipated Acura ADX, an all-new premium compact SUV that will welcome a new generation to the performance brand with an engaging driving experience, a feature-rich interior, a well-appointed cabin and plenty of cargo space to support active lifestyles.
The turbocharged 2025 Acura ADX brings a new gateway model to the Acura lineup, building on the incredible success of Integra and expanding the appeal of Acura as a destination brand for a new generation of buyers. The new ADX will begin arriving at Acura dealers next spring with a price range starting in the mid-$40,000s.
“The all-new Acura ADX is an exciting addition to our expanding lineup in Canada, our latest performance-focused SUV will act as another gateway to our brand,” said James Marchand Assistant Vice President Acura Canada. “The ADX is a premium compact SUV that targets a growing segment of buyers, it will appeal to a new generation of Acura enthusiasts.”
ADX will be offered in three well-equipped, AWD trims, including the enhanced A-SPEC and Platinum Elite A-SPEC, which are for buyers who desire an even sportier appearance with LED fog lamps, gloss black lower exterior trim, Gun Metallic skid garnishes front and rear, larger 19-inch wheels and A-SPEC badges. Both A-SPEC trims also include leatherette and Ultrasuede® ventilated front seats. At the top of the lineup, ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC receives gloss black mirrors, Berlina Black 19-inch wheels and exceptional premium features that include Google built-in, surround-view camera system, and a powerful Bang & Olufsen premium sound system.
2025 Acura ADX Premium Features:
ADX
- Youthful exterior styling with powerful proportions and sporty stance
- Sporty and personal cockpit with premium materials and precise details
- Heated steering wheel
- Remote engine start with vehicle feedback
- Panoramic moonroof
- 10.2-inch Acura Precision Cockpit™ digital instrument display
- 9-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay® 1 & Android Auto™ 2
- Qi-compatible 15W wireless smartphone charger
- 5G connectivity telematics system
- 8-speaker Acura Premium Sound System
- Enhanced global platform and advanced body structure
- Turbocharged 1.5-liter VTEC engine
- Sport-tuned fully independent suspension
- 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels
- Next-gen front airbags, front-row knee airbags and rear passenger side-impact airbags
- All-wheel drive system can send up to 50% of engine torque to the rear wheels
- AcuraWatch® suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies
- Integrated Dynamics System with four distinct driving modes
- Power tailgate with Walk Away Close
ADX A-SPEC adds:
- A-SPEC sport interior and exterior package
- Ventilated front seats
- Flat-bottom sport steering wheel
- 19-inch aluminum alloy wheels with resonators to reduce road noise
- LED fog lights
- Rear-seat USB-C charging ports (total 60W)
- 4-way power adjustment passenger seat
- Cargo cover
ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC adds:
- 15-speaker Bang & Olufsen premium sound system
- Google built-in3 and Alexa built-in4
- Integrated Dynamics System with five distinct driving modes, including driver-customizable Individual mode
- Front and rear parking sensors
- Surround-view camera system
- Rain-sensing windshield wipers
- Power tailgate with Walk Away Close & hands-free access
- 12-way power adjustment memory driver’s seat with power lumbar
- Power folding side mirrors
Youthful Exterior Styling
The youthful exterior styling of the 2025 Acura ADX combines powerful proportions with a sophisticated “frameless” Diamond Pentagon grille and aggressive grille mesh that reflect the latest alluring contrast Acura design language. With 4718mm of overall length, a low horizontal beltline and purposeful rear fenders add stature to its long muscular forms. Wide-set signature Acura “Chicane” LED daytime running lights and brake lights highlight its sporty, broad-shouldered stance.
In the rear, a sculpted hatch and an aggressive fascia with dual exhaust finishers emphasize ADX’s wide track. The standard ADX features gray metallic lower body trim; silver skid garnishes front and rear; and dynamically styled 18-inch, machine-finished alloy wheels wrapped in all-season tires.
A comprehensive aerodynamics package that includes an active grille shutter, front lip spoiler and underfloor cover helps the new ADX achieve excellent fuel efficiency. The expressive grille is flanked by air curtain inlets that route air through the bumper and around the front wheels, improving aerodynamic efficiency.
For a clean, upscale look, laser-brazing technology eliminates the need for roof moldings, and the windshield wipers hide under the hood line when not in use.
The 2025 ADX will be available in six exciting exterior colours, including an all-new colour for Acura and exclusive to ADX: Adriatic Sea Blue Metallic.
Sporty, Comfortable Cabin
The interior design team enhanced the ADX cabin experience with a new take on the sporty and personal dual-cockpit design, premium materials and precise details that debuted on the Acura Integra. Available with two bold interior colours—Ebony, and Red/Ebony, —the open and airy ADX cockpit provides exceptional outward visibility benefitting from a low cowl, thin pillars and a large greenhouse.
The exceptionally well-equipped ADX comes standard with a panoramic moonroof, heated steering wheel, dual-zone climate controls, rear air conditioning vents and heated front Body Stabilizing Seats that reduce fatigue and enhance comfort on long drives. Its generous 958mm of rear seat legroom provides spacious comfort.
ADX A-SPEC adds a premium performance edge to the cabin with Ultrasuede® seat trim, ventilated seats, a flat-bottom steering wheel covered in perforated leather, ambient LED lighting, stainless sport pedals, red gauge needles, red contrast stitching and a sporty chrome shift knob.
The top-of-the-line ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC is packed with top-class features, front and rear parking sensors, surround-view camera and a powerful new Bang & Olufsen premium sound system (see below).
ADX offers impressive cargo volume, with up to 690 litres behind the rear seats and standard split rear seatbacks to quickly and easily accommodate larger items, including two mountain bikes. With the 60/40-split rear seatbacks folded flat, cargo space expands up to 1,560 litres. A low lift-over height of 695mm makes loading large or heavy items easy. A power tailgate with Walk Away Close is standard.
Advanced Tech
Intuitive easy-to-use technology has been smartly integrated into the new ADX cabin with a focus on the driver, including a standard 10.2-inch Acura Precision Cockpit™ digital instrument display and a 9-inch colour touchscreen with a physical volume knob, a hard button to return to the Home screen, and large, easy-to-recognize icons. A finger rest at the bottom of the touchscreen makes it easier to use by providing a stable surface to rest your hand.
Standard tech includes wireless Apple CarPlay® 1 and Android Auto™ 2 compatibility, Wi-Fi Hotspot capability and a Qi-compatible 15W wireless smartphone charger. Moreover, charging is supported by a pair of easily accessible front USB-C ports. ADX A-SPEC and ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC add two USB-C ports at the back of the center console for rear-seat passengers.
ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC features the seamless integration of Google built-in3 with a complimentary 3-month/3GB data plan10. This includes apps like Google Assistant, Google Maps and more on Google Play for a helpful, personalized and connected driving experience.
With Google Assistant, users can get things done while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel. Talk to Google to easily call or text a friend, set reminders or even change the temperature in the car. Users can also navigate to the next destination or look up what’s nearby. For example, Google Assistant enables users to set their destination in Google Maps using just their voice.
Drivers can control their media by asking Google to skip to the next track or rewind a podcast using their favorite media apps. Google Play enables users to download various third-party apps for music, podcasts and audiobooks, just like they would on their smartphone.
For additional convenience, every 2025 ADX comes with 1 year of complimentary AcuraLink®5 remote services via the AcuraLink mobile app.
Bang & Olufsen Luxury Audio
Acura has long been recognized for offering outstanding audio, and the 2025 ADX is the latest model to feature an immersive experience developed in partnership with Bang & Olufsen, an iconic brand for audiophiles recognized for the creation of innovative audio systems for home and automotive applications alike.
At the top of the ADX lineup, the 2025 ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC features a new innovative, world-class Bang & Olufsen sound system developed exclusively for the Acura ADX to elevate the in-vehicle audio experience with class-leading performance and powerful and sophisticated concert hall sound.
The bespoke audio system boasts Bang & Olufsen’s proprietary Acoustic Lens Technology, an 8.8″ subwoofer, 16-channel amplifier, and 15 speakers. Aluminum speaker grilles laser etched with the Bang & Olufsen logo further enhances the premium interior design of ADX.
The exclusive Bang & Olufsen intuitive Beosonic™ one-touch sound control interface enables Acura ADX clients to create a personal in-car audio experience with four distinct audio moods: Bright, Energetic, Warm and Relaxed.
Bang & Olufsen’s Acoustic Lens Tweeters uniformly disperse high frequency content horizontally and vertically, providing an immersive sound experience with clarity and rich overtones.
Engaging Driving Experience
The new Acura ADX is built on the same enhanced global architecture as Integra with an advanced body structure fundamental to its outstanding ride, handling and refinement. For superior driving dynamics, ADX uses a lightweight aluminum front subframe with an efficient truss and rib structure that provides rigidity and stability.
Acura dynamics engineers have optimized the dual-pinion assist electronic power steering (EPS) and fully independent sport-tuned suspension of ADX to deliver a premium driving experience with fun-to-drive dynamics and class-leading refinement.
ADX delivers refined power and low-end torque from its turbocharged 1.5-litre VTEC engine. Similar to the DOHC 1.5T used in Integra, the direct-injected turbocharged 4-cylinder engine utilizes a high-efficiency, high-response turbocharger; low pressure-loss turbocharger piping; and 4-2 exhaust port cylinder head to help maintain peak power over a broad range of rpm for incredible response. VTEC variable valve timing is used on the exhaust side of the twin-cam head. This helps improve exhaust efficiency and optimize valve overlap, efforts that contribute to improved fuel efficiency and lower the engine speed for peak torque.
A sport-tuned continuously variable transmission (CVT) elevates the sporty driving experience of ADX with paddle shifters, early downshift during braking and Step Shift programming that simulates gear changes under hard acceleration.
The advanced all-wheel drive system can send up to 50% of engine torque to the rear wheels, improving handling performance as well as traction management in slippery conditions.
A standard Integrated Dynamics System enables the ADX driver to choose between four distinct driving modes—Snow, Comfort, Normal and Sport—that adjust the throttle response, transmission mapping, steering feel, in-cabin sound and gauge coloration. Platinum Elite A-SPEC adds an “Individual” mode that allows the driver to customize the Integrated Dynamics System setting combinations to their liking.
Additional acoustical spray foam insulation, sound-absorbing fender liners, wheel resonators (19-inch wheels), sound-insulating carpet, Active Noise Control and other sound absorbing technologies reduce wind, road and powertrain noise inside the cabin, for a more refined driving experience.
Advanced Safety and Driver Assistive Features
The all-new Acura ADX sets the benchmark in the premium compact SUV class for both active and passive safety performance with the AcuraWatch® suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies, proprietary ACE™ body structure and next-generation front driver and passenger airbags – all standard.
ADX features the Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, specifically designed to meet present and anticipated future collision standards, while minimizing additional weight. This is achieved with the extensive use of lightweight materials, including various grades of high-strength steel, as well as an expanded application of structural adhesives.
On ADX, the AcuraWatch® suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies includes Blind Spot Information (BSI), Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS)6, Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS®)7, Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low Speed Follow8, Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) System9, Traffic Jam Assist, Traffic Sign Recognition and Rear Cross Traffic Monitor.
The ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC also includes four sonar sensors on the front and rear fascias, enabling Low-Speed Braking Control. If an object is detected by the sonar sensors, Low Speed Braking Control can automatically apply the brakes (AEB) and reduce power if the driver mistakenly applies the throttle, lowering the likelihood of low-speed collisions. A surround-view camera is also standard on ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC.
ADX is equipped with next-generation front driver and passenger airbags specifically designed to reduce head rotation in a collision, especially an oblique collision. Front occupant knee and rear-passenger side impact airbags are standard.
Every ADX includes a Driver Attention Monitor (DAM) that issues a warning on the dash if it senses the driver is becoming inattentive. A standard Rear Seat Reminder notifies drivers when exiting the car to check the rear seating area for children, pets or other precious cargo.
The new Acura ADX is targeting a Top Safety Pick+ IIHS rating and a 5-star rating from NHTSA.
More information about the Acura ADX is available here.
2025 ADX Key Specifications
ENGINEERING | ADX | ADX A-SPEC | ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC |
Engine Type | 1.5-litre turbocharged VTEC inline 4-cylinder | ||
Displacement | 1,498 cc | ||
4-Mode Drive System (Snow/Comfort/Normal/Sport) | • | • | – |
5-Mode Drive System (Snow/Comfort/Normal/Sport/ Individual) | – | – | • |
Continuously Variable Transmission | • | • | • |
Ratio Range | 2.645-0.405 | ||
Final Drive | 5.640 | ||
MacPherson Strut Front Suspension plus Multi-Link Rear Suspension | • | • | • |
Wheels | 18-in. Pewter Grey Metallic alloys with machined finish | 19-in. Shark Grey Metallic alloys | 19-in. Gloss Black alloys |
Tires (all-season) | 225/55R18 | 235/45R19 | |
EXTERIOR MEASUREMENTS | |||
Wheelbase | 2654 mm | ||
Length | 4718 mm | ||
Height | 1620 mm | ||
Width | 1840 mm | ||
KEY FEATURES | ADX | ADX A-SPEC | ADX Platinum Elite A-SPEC |
AcuraWatch® | • | • | • |
Advanced Compatibility EngineeringTM (ACETM) Body Structure | • | • | • |
10 Airbags, Including Next-Generation Driver and Front Passenger Front Airbags | • | • | • |
10.2-inch Acura Precision Cockpit™ Digital Instrument Display | • | • | • |
Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto™ Compatibility | • | • | • |
9-Inch HD Color Touchscreen with Volume Knob, Customizable Feature Settings | • | • | • |
Wireless Charging | • | • | • |
Wi-Fi Hotspot Capability | • | • | • |
Google Built-in | – | – | • |
Sliding Panoramic Moonroof | • | • | • |
Ventilated Front Seats | – | • | • |
Bang & Olufsen Premium Sound System with 15-Speakers | – | – | • |
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About Acura Canada
Acura is the performance division of Honda Canada Inc. and is a leading automotive luxury nameplate that delivers Precision Crafted Performance, an original approach to technology and design that creates an exciting driving experience. The Acura lineup features five distinctive models – the Integra sports sedan, TLX performance luxury sedan, the 5-passenger RDX luxury crossover SUV, and the MDX seven-passenger luxury SUV, and the all-new 2024 ZDX, Acura’s first battery electric vehicle that will take performance into the electrified future. The TLX, MDX, ZDX and Integra come in a Type S variant, the pinnacle expression of performance engineering and technology, Acura’s commitment to Precision Crafted Performance. Acura has grown to include over 50 locations in its dealer network across the country. For more information, please visit www.acura.ca.
- Apple CarPlay is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.
- Android and Android Auto are trademarks of Google LLC.
- Google built-in services are subject to limitations and, availability may vary by vehicle, infotainment system and location. Select service plan required. Certain Google actions and functionality may require account linking. User terms and privacy statements apply. Google, Google Play and Google Maps are trademarks of Google LLC.
- Alexa and all related marks are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates
- Check the AcuraLink® website for smartphone compatibility.
- LKAS only assists driver in maintaining proper lane position when lane markings are identified without a turn signal in use and can only apply mild steering torque to assist. LKAS may not detect all lane markings; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed and road condition. System operation affected by extreme interior heat. Driver remains responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions
- CMBS cannot detect all objects ahead and may not detect a given object; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed and other factors. System operation affected by extreme interior heat. System designed to mitigate crash forces. Driver remains responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions.
- ACC with Low-Speed Follow cannot detect all objects ahead and may not detect a given object; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed, and other factors. ACC should not be used in heavy traffic, poor weather, or on winding roads. Driver remains responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions.
- Road Departure Mitigation only alerts drivers when lane drift is detected without a turn signal in use and can apply mild steering torque to assist driver in maintaining proper lane position and/or brake pressure to slow the vehicle’s departure from a detected lane. RDM may not detect all lane markings or lane departures; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed and road condition. System operation affected by extreme interior heat. Driver remaining responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions.
- Customers need to sign up for a free Wi-Fi hotspot trial to use Google built-in features. This trial is applicable for a period of 3months or 3Gb, whichever is earlier after which the customers will be required to either: 1) tether/hotspot from a compatible mobile device or 2) subscribe to a compatible data plan from Bell at then-current pricing (For details, see: https://www.bell.ca/Mobility/ConnectedCarLanding/Built-In-Connected-car)