Great commentary! But how do we countenance the 90% front drive bias of the SH-AWD system? They claim it's for fuel efficiency sake, but I think that only compensates for the energy expended spinning a rear wheel drive drive shaft, which I believe is a neglegible energy expenditure compared to having the handling advantage provided by the full-time rear wheel drive biased VX? Also, the Acura vehicles don't offer the option of going "combat" and utilizing raw 4x4 locked differential low range torque, which they claim is made superfluous by their SH-AWD system. Again, I think that's probably overpromise as a true lowrange mode behaves so much differently than any automatic device does, it's just brute rubber eating force and I noticed that Acura in their literature make not statement about consuming precious tire rubber on pavement with their system. If it really had that brute force available I think they would have cautioned against its effects. The VX literature does.