Acura has many great names in its arsenal, both used and unused. It recently brought back the iconic Integra nameplate, for example, and its history kicked off with the, um, legendary Legend. For the name of its upcoming electric SUV, its first-ever all-electric product, Acura is mining its past—but is digging up a weird fossil indeed: ZDX.
Now, depending on your point of view, the ZDX was either severely misunderstood and unfairly maligned for its beaky schnoz , or it deserved to be killed with fire. Proving that not much in life is fair, the original ZDX largely mimicked the coupe-SUV format laid down by the BMW X6 that had arrived two years prior.
Like that Bimmer, the Acura was based on a conventional SUV but sported a lower, more hunched profile for some extra visual pizazz and less cargo space. It also came with Acura's torque-vectoring Super Handling All-Wheel Drive , though only a middling V-6 engine. BMW's X6, which could be had with powerful V-8 engines, survived and thrived, even spawning a smaller X4 variant and similar competitors from Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Infiniti. The ZDX did not.
Even greater performance will be available via a promised Type S variant, which in Acura-speak is the name applied to the highest-performance version of a given model. There are TLX and MDX Type S versions available today, and the sold-out, now-discontinuedWe also know the ZDX will be a 2024 model, set to debut either sometime next year or early in '24 in full production guise.
Junk
I'll wait until Honda comes up with their own platform without the help of GM