{"id":519718,"date":"2010-04-07T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2010-04-07T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:35:06","slug":"2010-acura-mdx-%e2%80%93-short-take-road-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519718","title":{"rendered":"2010 Acura MDX \u2013 Short Take Road Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Best viewed and experienced from behind the wheel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Through the \u201990s and well into this decade, the popularity of the SUV boomed; they were the<\/em> vehicles of choice. Placated by a commanding view of the road and the illusion that heft begets safety, the public accepted the vehicles\u2019 trucky ride and handling; few if any SUVs actually lived up to the \u201csport\u201d part of the acronym. Arguably, that began to shift when Acura introduced its revamped MDX<\/a> for 2007. Equipped with Acura\u2019s Super Handling All-Wheel Drive<\/a> (SH-AWD), that MDX boasted a N\u00fcrburgring-tuned chassis back when such a boast was actually sort of unique.<\/p>\n

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But now, as many fret over fuel costs or simply want the Next Big Thing, consumers have begun to jump ship to crossovers, and the SUVs-with-mind-warping-handling segment grows more packed every day\u2014witness just the stuff from BMW, the X6<\/a> and X5\/X6 M<\/a>. As to the Acura, it\u2019s been updated for 2010; are the improvements enough to stay relevant?<\/p>\n

Keep Reading: 2010 Acura MDX – Short Take Road Test<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. 2010 Acura RDX Front-Wheel Drive – Short Take Road Test<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. 2010 Acura ZDX – Short Take Road Test<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. 2010 Acura MDX – First Drive Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Best viewed and experienced from behind the wheel. Through the \u201990s and well into this decade, the popularity of the SUV boomed; they were the vehicles of choice. Placated by a commanding view of the road and the illusion that heft begets safety, the public accepted the vehicles\u2019 trucky ride and handling; few if any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}