You can find a buyer for just about anything in the good ol' USA, but the 2010 Acura ZDX might be a hard sell. Acura started with the capable and practical three-row MDX crossover, removed the third-row centre and added a rakish fastback roof line that makes the second-row centre as cramped as a coupe's. ZDX buyers also get exclusive leather-wrapped dash panels and a nifty center stack panel that fades to black when it's not in use. Perhaps that module be sufficiency to win the whist of empty nesters in search of something more daring than a typical wealth crossover.
This is not a newborn formula. BMW did something similar with its X5, replacing the optional ordinal row with a fastback shape and calling it the X6. The X6 offers a choice of two turbocharged engines that you can't get in the X5, and its two remaining side seats (the middle position is omitted) still hit room for lanky adults. The ZDX, conversely, shares the MDX's 3.7-liter V6 and six-speed automatic gearbox, so it has no action edge to justify its less functional design.
Accordingly, the 2010 Acura ZDX's characteristic aesthetic module likely determine its fate. Shoppers with $45,000-$60,000 in their pockets tend to revalue individuality, and there's sure nothing on the road today that could be mistaken for Acura's newborn creation. However, they also revalue action and practicality, and there are many vehicles that outdo the ZDX on these counts. You can get an X5 for this kind of coin, or a Mercedes-Benz M-Class or a Porsche Cayenne — or, at the rough-and-tumble end of the spectrum, a Land Rover LR4. And if the fastback-SUV concept appeals, note that the quicker and sharper X6 starts at the same toll as our loaded ZDX tester.
Still, the ZDX starts at thousands less than that BMW, and it promises to foretell its driver's independent streak like few vehicles of this sort. That just might be sufficiency reason to take a 2010 Acura ZDX for a spin.
This is not a newborn formula. BMW did something similar with its X5, replacing the optional ordinal row with a fastback shape and calling it the X6. The X6 offers a choice of two turbocharged engines that you can't get in the X5, and its two remaining side seats (the middle position is omitted) still hit room for lanky adults. The ZDX, conversely, shares the MDX's 3.7-liter V6 and six-speed automatic gearbox, so it has no action edge to justify its less functional design.
Accordingly, the 2010 Acura ZDX's characteristic aesthetic module likely determine its fate. Shoppers with $45,000-$60,000 in their pockets tend to revalue individuality, and there's sure nothing on the road today that could be mistaken for Acura's newborn creation. However, they also revalue action and practicality, and there are many vehicles that outdo the ZDX on these counts. You can get an X5 for this kind of coin, or a Mercedes-Benz M-Class or a Porsche Cayenne — or, at the rough-and-tumble end of the spectrum, a Land Rover LR4. And if the fastback-SUV concept appeals, note that the quicker and sharper X6 starts at the same toll as our loaded ZDX tester.
Still, the ZDX starts at thousands less than that BMW, and it promises to foretell its driver's independent streak like few vehicles of this sort. That just might be sufficiency reason to take a 2010 Acura ZDX for a spin.
