SPY SHOTS: Acura Prances Out Working ZDX Today In SoCal. Has Your Opinion Changed?

Did Obama design this monstrosity?

BTW, I live in Irvine, Ca and

Another pathetic Obama comment. Grow up, you guys lost.

Yeah, that's a common theme for EL34.

Come on guys... give EL34 the respect he deserves. When he makes a non-agreeable comment, respond at his level. So, when he says, "Did Obama design this monstrosity?" We should answer, "No, your Mom did!"

My mom is dead.

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So is mine

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Sorry about that _43LE.

No worries, you had no way of knowing.

Nope still awful.

Why is it, that whenever I see one of these new ZDX, X6 type vehicles, I think about Monty Python's "Big People With Little Heads" cartoon?

Ungainly.

looks like you're right near the spectrum in that photo.

Acura as a company should be moving forward. It simply can't with that beak and design philosophy with their latest models. I loved the 2002 to 2003 TL and the last generation but while the interior of Acuras are still nicely put together the exterior is a tragedy. I don't hate Acura but they should strive to move closer to it's main competitor Infiniti and Lexus.

so they start with an ugly design, gets lots of negative comments and instead of correcting while they could, they go full out placing this ugly beak on every car they make.. someone is going to go down for this - sooooooon. i have owned 7 acuras but i will tell you i will never own one of these "star war models"

Agreed. Acura's are good cars. Their build quality is under-rated in my opinion. For example I found the TL's interior superior to that of the RL. Anyways, the MDX and TL had the most solid interiors in my opinion. Great bang for buck value. What's standard on the TL was optional or more expensive on C-Class or 3 series models.

Not bad. I certainly can call it modern. The rear door handles aren't a very bad idea, but they certainly are of bad design.

The face is its undoing, as is the case with ALL current Acuras. This "design theme" is going to go down in history as one of the biggest flops of the era. They need to tidy their front end up. Big grilles and chrome doesn't a great deisgn make.

Still very ugly!

looking nice to me. Profile is similar to X6 but design and details are much better.

JUGNU

I'm not too crazy about the X6's design but this makes the X6 10x better looking

its awful! Very odd shape. They took it from a really bad sci-fi flick. the front grill is still the ugliest thing I have ever seen. The japanese cars do not have the lines drawn well on these cars. They are very imbalanced. maybe one day...

Question to Acura and BMW: why?

Wannabe is not a judgment, just a fact that it is trying to edge into that space.

It 'WANTS' the success of the X6.

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How is the X6 a success? I don't think it wants its "success" as it is only on the market one year later than the X6. It's more of a parallel development. The start of the development of the ZDX happened before the X6 even made it to market.

X6 copier

I dont want to beat around the bush with a "i feel" or "i think" comment. This looks like pure sh!t.

I believe Acura is desperate for a "breakthrough" design and is hoping they will hit the bulls eye with this untidy conniption of distorted metal. I'm not shocked any more by their crippling design bent, just merely amused and disappointed.

Now their new tag line will read, "Acura,what could have been..."

Considering Hyundai's past, Im sure they will steal many cues from this hideous thing.

"Hideous", "awful", etc. I don't understand what people see to categorize it that way. Please elaborate with an intelligent explanation of what you see. Looks kind of tame to me compared to some other recent designs by the industry. In fact, I'd call it kind of boring. The grill gets your attention but we've seen that for 2 years now. When are poeple going to give the jokes a rest with that? Did it take this long to settle down on the BMW and Audi grills when they went for a standout look? It's a grill. Far from defines the car's design. If that were not true, Audi's drop jaw design would have killed sales entirely. That has to be the worst of all the "gaud grills"

This car looks very odd with the rear sloped. It's cross-dresser rather than a cross-over. I respect Honda's technical work - love their cars, but something is really wrong at Acura. My Acura MDX had a lot of quality issues that should have been caught on the line, so I will not buy or recommend this brand. My Accord was flawless.

If anything Acura is a good example for what a company should not do with a luxury brand. I think it's time for a letter writing campaign to Honda HQ to stop this insanity.

Wouldn't argue with that much. If nothing else, this is definitely the wrong product at the wrong time. That's probably easy for everyone to agree on. A Coupe variant of somekind? Move the S2000 RWD roadster to Acura and build off that? Create a next gen RL to better compete in that segment? We could go on. Any one of those would probably have been a better next offering if they wanted to expend the lineup. This does nothing to raise the brand image even if it does turn out to be a good product. Interested to see how that new 6AT performs. Those 5AT Honda transmissions are getting long in the tooth and are a bit primative.

Acura designers must be smoking something. Seems all their current designs now include the beaks. I've owned a couple of TL's but I will not buy any of these ugly designs. How long before Acura wakes up and LISTENS to someone will good input. This is such a hideous looking vehicle. It will grow in inventory as it sits on dealer's lots.

Hyundaismoke, no... big grills do not mean better fuel economy. In fact it means quite the opposite. Big open grills produce lots of drag which destroys fuel economy. Most grills are used to let air pass over the engine/radiators to cool the engine, not for air going into the engine.

Acura Acura Acura... Another ugly design from a company that clearly is lost. Poor guys, the first design out of their new SoCal studio SUCKS... How disappointing to be slightly related (I quit an Acura dealer after their cars got so behind in the game)to that company.

Ugly.