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2007 Acura RDX Review
Acura totally blows it.
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You might have assumed that Honda had already taken every combustion-powered object it owns and niced them up for its Acura brand, but as luck would have it, they missed one. That would be the CR-V, a high-riding suburban singlesmobile that proved to be a huge hit. It also proved that when a Civic looks like something else, it can fetch fatter profits.
So why not take the concept one step further? The CR-V had matured enough to serve as an Acura, and with a third-generation design coming for 2007 (now officially split from the Civic), opportunity was knocking. Besides, there's plenty of room at the shallow end of the luxury sport-utility pool, and it would be wrong to let the BMW X3 have all the fun.
So the one that got away has been recaptured, renamed, and reconditioned. Here at Acura, the RDX serves not singles, but "high-energy urbanites." Instead of grocery-getting utility, you'll hear of the ease in which it swallows mountain bikes and kayaks. Artists gave their time to style the architecture, cows gave their lives to become chairs, and 166 horsepower turned into 240.
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