2012 Acura TL Sports Sedan Road Test
By Bob Plunkett
So we're scooting down the Seabeck Highway, a narrow strip of blacktop that bounds over humpback foothills of the Olympic Mountains lapping Puget Sound near Seabeck in the state of Washington.
This twisty two-lane road seems like it was designed expressly to show off the four-wheel agility of the redesigned 2012 Acura TL sports sedan equipped with Acura's SH-AWD (Super-Handling All-Wheel-Drive) equipment.
The computer-managed SH-AWD system can disburse the powertrain's considerable torque not only to wheels fore and aft but the left or right ones too. It's always engaged and enables the vehicle to maneuver on wet or dry pavement with the uncanny agility of a wily sports car.
The device goes further than AWD controls employed by other vehicles because it can automatically increase the rotation speed of an outboard rear wheel during quick and hard cornering maneuvers.
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