Acura MDX -- hearty hauler, great stereo - San Francisco Chronicle
Acura MDX -- hearty hauler, great stereoThe interesting thing about Acura's MDX is how muscular it looks. For those of us who have watched Honda (Acura's parent) over the years -- over the decades, really -- it's something of an irony because Honda has always been the brand whose cars were so elegantly designed, made to look light on their feet.
I don't use the word "light" lightly -- Honda had about it (and, in many cases, still has) the spirit of Colin Chapman, the famed creator and designer of Lotus cars. Remember the race cars? There was something that connoted a light, but strong vehicle, a car where Chapman had pared away excess weight and unwanted protuberances to make it a lithe and smooth whole.
The early Hondas, particularly the Accord line over 30-plus years, always looked lighter and swifter than, say, Honda's arch-rival, the Toyota Camry. To be sure, Camrys outsell Accords in that popular mid-sized sedan category, but the Camrys always looked (and still do) as if Toyota had heaped on an extra 100 or 200 pounds, just to make sure.
