What Is It?
Acura RD-X Concept
What's Special About It?
Don't let the concept label fool you, this is a production vehicle. Imagine the RD-X with larger conventional door handles, outside mirrors and slightly less radical head- and taillights, and you've got Acura's answer to the BMW X3. Expect it to hit Acura's showrooms in 2006 still carrying the RD-X name.
This concept, which is approximately 7 inches shorter than an Acura MDX, resembles its larger brother, but its look is more chiseled. Acura is keeping the SUV's engine a secret, but it did say the RD-X has over 200 hp, the high-tech SH-AWD system from the company's RL flagship sedan and four-wheel independent suspension. Expect all of it to make production. Sadly, its huge Brembo disc brakes and 19-inch wheels and tires will not.
As every concept car should be, the RD-X is packed with space-age gizmos and gadgets that will never make production, from two small rear-facing cameras that replace its outside mirrors to windshield wipers replaced by powerful air jets that blast water off the glass. Much of the technology found in the RD-X, however, is right out of the existing RL. Things like a navigation system with voice recognition and a satellite communication system, which includes real-time traffic information, will no doubt be part of the production RD-X package.
We cannot say the same for the interior of this truck. The RD-X's rosewood-covered floor, off-white suede headliner and tangerine-colored front bucket seats, with crocodile-embossed leather and ivory-colored wool headrests won't make it past the concept stage.
What's Edmunds' Take?
On the outside this isn't a bad-looking truck. It's the inside that frightens. Orange tangerine-colored seats with crocodile-embossed leather and ivory-colored headrests? Call the ugly police. It looks like a bad episode of MTV's "Cribs: Pimps Edition" in there. I'll take mine with black leather. — Scott Oldham
Acura RD-X Concept
What's Special About It?
Don't let the concept label fool you, this is a production vehicle. Imagine the RD-X with larger conventional door handles, outside mirrors and slightly less radical head- and taillights, and you've got Acura's answer to the BMW X3. Expect it to hit Acura's showrooms in 2006 still carrying the RD-X name.
This concept, which is approximately 7 inches shorter than an Acura MDX, resembles its larger brother, but its look is more chiseled. Acura is keeping the SUV's engine a secret, but it did say the RD-X has over 200 hp, the high-tech SH-AWD system from the company's RL flagship sedan and four-wheel independent suspension. Expect all of it to make production. Sadly, its huge Brembo disc brakes and 19-inch wheels and tires will not.
As every concept car should be, the RD-X is packed with space-age gizmos and gadgets that will never make production, from two small rear-facing cameras that replace its outside mirrors to windshield wipers replaced by powerful air jets that blast water off the glass. Much of the technology found in the RD-X, however, is right out of the existing RL. Things like a navigation system with voice recognition and a satellite communication system, which includes real-time traffic information, will no doubt be part of the production RD-X package.
We cannot say the same for the interior of this truck. The RD-X's rosewood-covered floor, off-white suede headliner and tangerine-colored front bucket seats, with crocodile-embossed leather and ivory-colored wool headrests won't make it past the concept stage.
What's Edmunds' Take?
On the outside this isn't a bad-looking truck. It's the inside that frightens. Orange tangerine-colored seats with crocodile-embossed leather and ivory-colored headrests? Call the ugly police. It looks like a bad episode of MTV's "Cribs: Pimps Edition" in there. I'll take mine with black leather. — Scott Oldham
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