Every car is an argument about what matters, and the Acura CDX makes its case with Petrol engine and 134 kW (180 hp. Acura built from 2016 to 2022 — as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Hirotoshi Tamura.
The story
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.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; it is rated at 134 kW (180 hp; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 8-speed dual-clutch. The wheelbase is 2660 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Acura's history is not in doubt: it was built at Guangzhou (Guangqi Honda), China. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Hyundai Ioniq, the Honda BR-V, the Volkswagen Phideon. Nearby in the Acura catalogue sit the Acura ADX and the Acura ARX-06.