CarBrandLogos archive · Acura · 2024
One badge, two unrelated cars, fourteen years apart.
Discover the storyPhoto: Kevauto · CC BY-SA 4.0
The story
Explore the ideas, engineering and context that shaped the Acura ZDX, then continue into its specifications and place in the marque's lineage.
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The ZDX name has been used twice, for vehicles with nothing in common.
Acura ZDX Concept 03 · dsix · CC BY 2.0
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The first, from 2009, was a five-door coupe SUV with a heavily raked roofline, hidden rear door handles and a cabin that traded rear headroom and boot space for a striking profile. It was styled in Acura's Californian studio and priced above the MDX it was based on. It sold very poorly and ended in 2013.
2010 Acura ZDX Advance -- NHTSA 2 · U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · Public domain
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The second appeared in 2024 and was an electric mid-size SUV built on General Motors' Ultium platform under a joint arrangement with Honda, assembled in North America, with a conventional five-door body and a Type S version at the top of the range. It was always a stopgap while Honda's own electric architecture was finished, and it lasted only into 2025.
2009-2013 Acura ZDX rear 4.6.18 · Kevauto · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Neither car defines the brand. Together they mark the two occasions Acura tried to move quickly into a segment it had not yet worked out.
At a glance
Produced
2009–2013Body
5-door coupé SUVTechnical specification
Badge at launch
This is the marque emblem that accompanied the ZDX's era. The full identity timeline is documented in the brand archive.
Explore the logo history →From the journal
Contemporaries from the 2020s
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