2010 Acura ZDX - First Drive Review - Car and Driver
The Acura ZDX is endearingly weird, the sort of vehicle you might expect Citroën to produce, were it still doing business in America and hoping to slake our countrymen’s thirst for an all-in-one crossover/sports coupe/sedan/SUV. What the ZDX is not, philosophically, is a Honda. “This isn’t the old Acura way of ‘Honda Plus,’” says Acura’s executive vice-president John Mendel, and indeed, this thing is seriously out of compliance with the Honda ethos. The ZDX trades efficiency and rationality for a big ol’ bag of interesting. Acura wanted to create a sporty coupe, so naturally it, um, gave it heavy running gear and lifted its center of gravity. Maybe we’ve had our defenses broken down by the begrudgingly excellent BMW X6 , but the ZDX starts to make sense once you drive it, especially in its element, i. e. , the winding coastal roads of northern California or the snowy passes of Tahoe. Though it feeds an ample 300 horsepower from its 3. 7-liter V-6 through Acura’s new six-speed automatic transmission and its torque-shuffling SH-AWD system, the ZDX’s dials are angled toward luxury rather than sport. But there remains a tendency for the ZDX to worry itself around corners, not providing the steering feedback and off-center torque buildup you get in the MDX. Source: www.caranddriver.com
