Acura
The Acura CDX is a subcompact luxury crossover SUV produced by Acura, a luxury vehicle division of Honda, for the Chinese market. The CDX was manufactured by Guangqi Honda. The car made its debut at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2016.
The CDX was produced at the Zengcheng Plant in Guangzhou, China and was available from July 2016 until April 2022, when Acura announced that the brand would be exiting the Chinese market. Upon release, the CDX was planned as a Chinese-only domestic model, with Acura announcing it had no plans to launch it in North America. However, according to Jon Ikeda, group vice president of Acura USA, Acura had considered selling the CDX in the United States although that ultimately never happened. In 2020, an A-Spec variant of the CDX was released, featuring more aggressive styling, blacked-out plastic trim, two-tone mirrors, and unique 18-inch wheels.
From the Wikipedia article Acura CDX, CC BY-SA.
Among the 35 Acura entries in the MotorJury library, the Acura CDX holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2016. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Acura CDX properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro, the Tesla Tesla Model 3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Acura CDX reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Honda L engine#L15B & L15C (Earth Dreams VTEC Turbo) / L15B9 VTEC#VTEC TURBO / VTEC DOHC Turbocharger / turbo Inline-four engine / I4 / Petrol ; quoted output is 134 kW (180 hp; 182 PS) (L15B9); drive goes through 8-speed dual-clutch; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Acura's own catalogue the Acura CDX sits alongside the Acura ADX, the Acura ARX-06, the Acura CL-X, the Acura NSX concept (2012). Design is credited to Hirotoshi Tamura. Assembly is recorded at China: Guangzhou (Guangqi Honda).
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