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What would Bruce Wayne drive? For those times when you absolutely, positively have to get to the Bat Cave, may we suggest the tenacious traction of the SH-AWD.

"Drat!" we imagine them saying around the Cadillac water cooler."Acura beat us to the 2012 CTS!"

Where did this come from? Since the pert little RSX of 2002, Honda's Acura division has been shoveling ever deeper into the styling mush of confused grilles and flabby flanks (doubters, please see the RDX, MDX, and TSX). Just when we stopped caring where this sequence would lead, we get this fascinating TL, decisively carved to appeal to your inner Batman.

Bruce Wayne, your car is ready.

Finally, an Acura sculpted front to back with a single theme in mind, rakish, ominous, one step short of menacing. If ever there was a car meant to look sinister in the images transmitted from a Predator drone circling overhead, it's the 2009 Acura TL. This is brave, and the more we look, the more we see a breakthrough design.

Judging from hisoff-duty ride, Mr. Wayne's taste runs more toward all-weather sure-footedness than pure performance. And he has high expectations for quality and comfort.

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