Fobzy2010 Acura ZDX: Ferocious styling
December 2nd 2009 05:49
Fancy one of these, the bland sillver colour makes it look rather ordinary despite its claims to the contrary, don't you think?
The ZDX's ultra-rakish coupe profile is limned in a dark-tinted glass canopy that stretches from the hood all the way to the taillamp assembly. The sides of the greenhouse taper inward dramatically to the rear, creating outrageous rear haunches that might as well have been lifted from a Paris-Dakar Porsche. (Acura)
This article from the Los Angeles Times sums it up.
It would have been helpful if they had included the price.
By Dan Neil
November 27, 2009
In biology it's called "convergent evolution" -- unrelated organisms separately evolve the same trait.
Birds and bats both have wings, for example, but they evolved from very different lineages. Like humans and other primates, Wall Street bankers have 10 fingers and toes, even though they evolved from disgusting, invertebrate slugs.
In the last couple of years, BMW, Porsche, Honda and VW/Audi have all separately arrived at a wagon/coupe/crossover solution because they are all dealing with the same retail ecology. For one thing, many buyers are maturing out of their cretinous SUVs and crossovers. They want something sporty and coupe-like but they still want the commanding outward view and some modicum of utility.
For another: Product development systems are now so streamlined that carmakers are able to cheaply riff off established chassis, offering subspecies of vehicles to make sure they have something in the showroom for everybody. BMW, for instance, has grafted a fastback rear end to its 5-series sedan to make the 5-series GT. To me it looks like the car has developed an egg sac.
The latest and, I assert, the greatest of these efforts is the Acura ZDX, a ferociously dynamic, red-in-tooth-and-claw styling exercise from Acura's Torrance design studio.
If only this major-league body didn't have a minor-league chassis to go with it.
This is the first Acura designed, engineered and being built in North America (Alliston, Ontario. That's Canada.
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