The interior of the Acura MDX is designed with driver-centric instrumentation and displays. The beautiful three-spoke brushed-aluminum steering wheel has nine control systems mounted on it for cruise control, telephone, entertainment systems, and information displays.The dashboard has a high-mounted, large navigation screen in the heavily sculpted panel, with all other switches subservient to the nav center, and carefully orchestrated into about one square foot of dashboard real estate. The two-line readout display for the climate control and entertainment systems uses large segmented figures and is very easy to read and interpret. The compact main instrument pod is housed in one deeply tunneled nacelle, with four even deeper nacelles for the main instruments.
Three-zone automatic climate control allows the driver, front passenger and rear passengers to set different temperatures for maximum comfort.
The seating is arranged as two front, two center, and two rear, with a third seat available for the second row. There is scant rear legroom in the third row for adults, making the third row strictly for the kids.