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Safety, Driver Assistance, and Warranty

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From Car and Driver

Safety, Driver Assistance, and Warranty Rating:

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Every TLX has safety and driver assists such as automated emergency braking and adaptive cruise control. Buyers can cast the safety net even wider with optional rear cross-traffic alert, parking sensors, and blind-spot monitoring.

What’s New for 2019?

The 2019 TLX again earned an excellent five-star crash-test rating from NHTSA. However, the TLX once again was not named an IIHS Top Safety Pick for 2019. The lineup still includes a host of standard active-safety features, but blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert are bundled only with the $3700 Technology package.

Crash-Test Results

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety(IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject's automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.

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Read more about how NHTSA and the IIHS crash-test cars.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results

2019 Acura TLX

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results

2019 Acura TLX

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Active-Safety Features

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Since the safety and driver-assistance features are unchanged for 2019, you can read our in-depth review of the 2018 Acura TLX for details about its safety features.

Warranty and Maintenance Coverage

The TLX has one of the best powertrain warranties in the class, at six years or 70,000 miles. Its four-year or 50,000-mile limited warranty is similar to most rivals, but neither it nor the Mercedes-Benz C-class offer complimentary scheduled maintenance.

Read more on what you need to know about warranties.

Warranty Comparison

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