2010 Acura ZDX - Short Take Road Test - Car and Driver
The 2013 model year represents the swan song year for Acura’s brazenly styled ZDX luxury crossover, which shares its dirty parts with the taller, seven-seat MDX. The big-boned ZDX hatchback is quite fun to drive and bathes its driver and front passenger in amenities galore, but its low roofline hampers rear-seat space and practicality. Short Take Road Test - 2010 Acura ZDX We’re tempted to believe that ZDX stands for “zero demand expected. ” The new Acura ZDX is one of those genre-less oddballs that occasionally comes along, like the Subaru Baja and the BMW X6. They slip past the guardians of sanity at their home offices and drift into the market like pollen wafting on a breeze of... Long ago we described just such a spore, the AMC Gremlin, as a Hornet with the useful space hacked out of it. Behold the 21st-century version: Acura’s MDX luxury people mover with at least some of the useful space hacked—no, that’s old-fashioned,... To make a ZDX, an entire seat row from the MDX goes sayonara, as does about 35 percent of the cargo space with the seats folded. Width and wheelbase remain unchanged from the MDX, and length grows slightly, but the ZDX’s roof is more than five inches lower, pruning just over three inches from the rear-seat headroom. Source: www.caranddriver.com
