I have to agree the chrome strip bisecting the rear panel makes it look like a hearse. Might be better with a different roof colour that contrasts with the window.
Acura tried to hide resemblance of a station wagon, and instead produced a hearse. To me there is no attractive design of any hearse, but I saw nice designs of lots of European brands of station wagons.
Just bought mine 5 days ago from Gold Coast Acura in Ventura (shout out to Andrea Samayoa), same color Type S, didn’t agree with a lot of the bad things about this car that was mentioned, really quiet inside, no squeaking at the passenger side seatbelt, it charged from 17% to 80% at 28 minutes (at Electrify America behind Sears at the Pacific View Mall in Ventura). So I totally don’t agree to call it a “Mehhh.” But still, I’m an Acura person, I am a little biased and I have been waiting for an EV from Acura, even if it’s made by GM. Also, thank you for this review, it’s the most informative and helpful of all the reviews in TH-cam, thank you so much!
They improved the charging speed on the Lyriq. It now holds above 100kW until 80%. Still 35+ charging time but not as bad as this. Hopefully those improvements come to this car.
I was watching this in my Chevy Bolt through the Bose sound system, and the sound inside the ZDX tricked me into thinking I was hearing thunder outside the Chevy Bolt.
This is a great comparison to Lyriq. I have a 24 Lyriq AWD luxury 3 loaded. As a start, I'm shocked at under the hood for that just one center plastic piece and so much exposed, where the Lyriq is fully covered.
The main reason for a full cover with no frunk is for noise blocking, since the customer is only expected to lift the hood to refill wiper fluid. I guess Acura met their noise goal with just the landing strip.
I think it looks good. But it seems to me that it is not nearly as quiet as my Ioniq 5 Limited. Also, the DCFC dropped to 107kW at only 31%? Tsk. Just last week I saw that my Ioniq 5 was still charging at 133kW when it hit 80%.
The thing about buying an ev from them is their engineers are essentially learning all the hard lessons learned other automakers have but the cars cost the same. In other words Acura EVs will be behind for a few years before they get decent.
So I'm 5 minutes in the video and the car looks like a hearse with that chrome trim, too funny Acura. Is there a matching Butterscotch casket to order as a option?
Nice to see you back Kyle reviewing something more for the masses. ZDX looks really nice . Still need 70mph for VinFast 8, Chevy Blazer, Equinox , New ID 4 ,Aryia , ..all the mid size suvs. hoping t see th entire team 5,6,7 of you take them all out for 70mph same day. Besides being very cool to watch it alo would allow you to get caught up, you're running yourself thing with all the New Evs coming out. You have a team , you dont have ot do everything.
20-80% in 42 minutes? Garbage. I’ll take my Ioniq 5 all day. And the new Polestar? THAT’S what we really need. 10 minute charge times please. This kind of charging will just turn people off.
Imo we need choices as some folks road tripping and eating say lunch at a sit down place? Want 45mins to an hour of time. Whereas road trip mega bladder warriors want 5-15mins max and get going again! 😀
I think having cross-platform utilization is great. The more you can produce of that part the easier it will be to get and the more likely aftermarket parts will become available. Even if each of these remain somewhat niche having multiple brands use the same one should mean you'll have battery support and such down the road 🤞
"This is a ground up battery electric vehicle chassis, meant to be an EV not shared with any combustion... What the heck is going on under here?" This is what happens when legacy automotive engineering management design an EV. I've been an engineer in automotive for 10 years (3 years at the Big Three and 7 years in off road industrial vehicles) and this is exactly what the engineering teams I've worked with would do. This may be a ground up EV but most of the components under the hood (brakes, HVAC, windshield wipers/fluid, fuse box assemblies) aren't ground up. Unless you are trying to innovate you either reuse or modify existing solutions. It saves so much money if you don't have to reinvent the wheel (less design time, less design reviews, less feasibility studies, less failure analysis, less prototyping, less certification, less retooling for manufacturing, etc). It's really hard to convince a project manager that it's worth the expense to make the space under the hood "prettier". It's a lot easier to convince them to get a giant piece of plastic to cover the ugly bits like they do on the Lyriq, so I'm a little surprised they have so much exposed. Maybe if they were given a directive to create a frunk they would have done things differently but Acura has decades of engine bay designs that are easy to copy/paste and modify to fit their needs instead of designing everything from scratch. It's easy for Tesla or Rivian to have innovative solutions in those spaces because they are starting from scratch and their design budgets are built around innovating. Legacy manufacturers don't get that luxury.
@@jon1913 they should have that luxury the same as any company like Tesla or rivian, if they are a successful company they should be able to do it, I think it's a culture and attitude problem, it's too conservative
@@nathansuss You're not wrong, I was just giving my experience as to why it is the way it is. Most engineers don't go into this industry to copy/paste existing designs. We really want to make new and exciting things but we are all cogs in the corporate machine so we do what we must to get paid. Sometimes we will have to find innovative solutions to fit design constraints and those solutions will change how future products are made but we rarely are given a blank slate and a blank check to create whatever we want. The most ground breaking innovation at my company happens during our hack-a-thons where we have a few days (or occasionally a full week) to prototype whatever innovative idea you want. It could be a process improvement or a training solution or a new product feature that would make/save the company millions of dollars. Skeptically it's the company leaching our ideas to make money but it's honestly the best week of the year! Occasionally those ideas go through the tech development process and eventually make it into production, you'll get a nice little award and maybe a bonus if the idea is patentable, which is nice. The other 51 weeks of the year we are slogging through the day to day workload of getting vehicles to customers and resolving defects.
The interesting part to me is that apparently the engineers claim they loaded up the front to increase cargo space but did they really? I think Model Y has more headroom all the while having more components underneath.
Maybe the sensor suite and electronics costs a bit? That is a good question though, if it has the same sensors as regular driving aids it should at least be included at a lower spec level. Also having super cruise as a weekly subscription would be nice. I don't need it for getting around day to day, regular lane keep and adaptive cruise is good enough, but for road trips it would be awesome!
@kyle, syncing the center-display to the cluster too has issues. The road speed limit indicator does not show. At least by default. The SOC is an absolute miss like you showed.
The charging issue I noticed; is a reason I think all the charging ports should be a back of car. if it's facing that close to the fast charge station. it's harder to grab cooler air. If you could back in that would allow the car to take in more unrestricted air to assist the thermal management.
I wonder if Alyssa just handed him a Snickers how much different this review would be. Great looking? ☑️ Great audio system? ☑️ $7,500 tax credit? ☑️ advanced self-driving? ☑️ advanced suspension? ☑️
OEM carmakers should just bite the bullet and bring back Station Wagons for their EV brands. It's obvious from the design of the ZDX that this EV just has a boatload of not that efficient batteries (based on miles per kWh) in order to be somewhere in the 300 miles per charge range. There's an article out there from Car and Driver on future EV's coming and almost all of them looked to be 'stretched' out in order to cram as many batteries in their concept car because they haven't figured out to increase/maximize the battery technology yet on a miles per kWh basis.
I was next to a brand new one of these at an EA charger in my etron. I noticed same exact thing happen to him that happened to you. My etron torched through while his fell off a cliff. When I left he was still at 35% with 35kW rate. Crazy.
I think the Lyriq looks better inside and out. Lots of similarities, between the two, but pricing wise, with current discounts, the Lyriq is a even a better deal. Going to be interesting to see how they sell when the Acura starts hitting dealer lots.
You guys went off the deep end with the Slimy leather and the under hood segment. I was LOL. I appreciate yall keeping it real! Under the hood is a rats nest for a clean sheet job!
i like the looks despite the hearse styling cues (same criticism some make of the Odyssey Minivan despite that historically being a great seller)... however i think it would look even better without the 3-tone paint, just make that lower Silver cladding in the same Piano Black as the roof... yikes, how does any electric SUV weigh MORE than a BMW IX...? an EV that itself (while a tour de force in Bavarian design) was known to be a BEHEMOTH upon arrival.
Not built in Ohio, built in Spring Hill, TN at the old Saturn factory. If that is the gold color vehicle you need to check your white balance on your video camera.
In my opinion the Lyriq on the outside and the inside lookswise is much superior. The ZDX is a nice looking car, however it sort of blends in with the traffic around it while the Lyriq is an eye magnet. As for the steering, GM makes the Corvette. Honda could have easily told GM to "Make the steering as close as possible to the Vette." They didn't. So that was Honda's decision. Like they decided on air suspension and Brembo brakes. As for the rattles it is unfortunate, but it could be due to this being a super early production example. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. I own a 2023 Chevy Bolt EV. It has nearly 4000 miles and absolutely no rattles whatsoever. That being said the ZDX could be an excellent deal under lease as you have stated. Gr8 video as usual, Mr. Kyle! 🚗🇺🇸🔌⚡
Not having lane centering in the A-spec makes sense if you are trying to hold your production at low volumes. This is their first EV, so who knows how much money they are loosing on every car.
Dude always cut her off and clearly she’s not ok with that. You asked her for a thought and quickly cut her off if you won’t let her speak just talk non stop as you always do and also you are all over the place !!!
Yeah he does that in a lot of interviews/panels and with his other co-hosts. He puts out a lot of good info but I can only take his rudeness for so long so I have to watch his videos in parts!
Is it intentionally missing covers under the hood? The Blazer EV has covers all over under the hood. Its like a 4 or 5 piece setup, one center piece, front piece by the hood latch and then 2 sides yet this has just the center. Seems like a big miss to me.
EV SUV's are an oversaturated market, but knowing it's Ultium I have high hopes of this. Although I think I'd consider a Lyriq over this due to them being a bit cheaper. Both are absolutely pretty though and the ability to turn this into a station wagon is really cool
I worked on the Prologue project with the engineers in Torrence California. GM didn’t build that car, and they didn’t build this one. They also did not design it. Honda did everything and I have the grey hair to prove it. The only thing GM did was provide us the batter pack and chassis. That was about 35% of what went into those models. The Ultium’s biggest strength is its architecture which allows consumers to swap out pieces of the battery rather than the whole pack, should any part of the battery gets damaged or malfunctions. The Ionic owners who are getting hit with $55k replacement costs would have been saved by this model.
Nobody believes you. You’re just another Honda/Acura salesperson getting told to canvas TH-cam in order to fight negative reviews. This car is built alongside the Blazer in a GM factory in Ramos Arizpe. It’s full of GM parts, and loads of EVs have modular batteries. Honda’s own BEVs have used modular packs. Teslas have modular packs. Hyundais have excellent warranties and the debunked myth of the $60kCAN battery replacement isn’t fooling anyone here.
That's great insight, and the first time I've ever heard of Ultiium's battery being partially swappable. I wish I had learned about it before! I do wonder about the battery pack and chassis detail you mention. If that's the case, then what's up with the switch gear? The window switches, stalks, steering wheel, etc very much look like GM parts bin rather than Honda/Acura.
@@alvin.holbrook re: "That's great insight, and the first time I've ever heard of Ultiium's battery being partially swappable." all true, it was one of the features GM made of point of promoting when the Ultium system was announced a few years back. TH-cam search for some of the original videos and you'll likely see it.
I do not think Acura can build this or any EV for the north american market in 2024. Maybe in a few years. This is the best they can do in our market for this year. I think this was a good fit for Honda to go with, the wait would have hurt their brand. The lease market is ripe for this ZDX
I have to agree the chrome strip bisecting the rear panel makes it look like a hearse. Might be better with a different roof colour that contrasts with the window.
I don't think there is another roof color though.
@cbotten106 then it can be wrapped in a color to deviate it from the hearse look.
why do americans think everything looks loke a hearse?
Acura tried to hide resemblance of a station wagon, and instead produced a hearse. To me there is no attractive design of any hearse, but I saw nice designs of lots of European brands of station wagons.
@@nevco8774 station wagons are dope. They are utilitarian, economical, roomy and can even be specd with high performance drivetrains
"Maybe spinners will make a comeback on EVs" -- might be the funniest line I've heard on a video from Out of Spec.
I liked "we don't test drive cars on paper, we test them on asphalt," better.
The chrome strip on the roof reminds me of a hearse.
BIG TIME!
So true. Oh no. I can't unsee it now. "At least he went from us in silence..." ;)
Exactly what is thought!
My thoughts exactly!!!!
Cargo space is measured in # of coffins.
I can’t unsee the “Hearse” now😂.
I just thought the same thing
I was just about to hit "Comment" saying the same thing. Maybe the color scheme?
Just bought mine 5 days ago from Gold Coast Acura in Ventura (shout out to Andrea Samayoa), same color Type S, didn’t agree with a lot of the bad things about this car that was mentioned, really quiet inside, no squeaking at the passenger side seatbelt, it charged from 17% to 80% at 28 minutes (at Electrify America behind Sears at the Pacific View Mall in Ventura). So I totally don’t agree to call it a “Mehhh.” But still, I’m an Acura person, I am a little biased and I have been waiting for an EV from Acura, even if it’s made by GM. Also, thank you for this review, it’s the most informative and helpful of all the reviews in TH-cam, thank you so much!
I appreciate your ***critical*** review!!! So far, the most in-depth video from the 10+ videos I've watched! 👍
They improved the charging speed on the Lyriq. It now holds above 100kW until 80%. Still 35+ charging time but not as bad as this. Hopefully those improvements come to this car.
24:20 “Close that hood! It’s ugly.” 😂
For real 😂
I was watching this in my Chevy Bolt through the Bose sound system, and the sound inside the ZDX tricked me into thinking I was hearing thunder outside the Chevy Bolt.
I like the color but I liked it better on 1972 Ford LTD Brougham. Can we get a comparison test with the Wagon Queen Family Truckster?
Great video. Looking forward for your polestar 3 review. I just ordered one and hope to have a professional review this car.
This is a great comparison to Lyriq. I have a 24 Lyriq AWD luxury 3 loaded. As a start, I'm shocked at under the hood for that just one center plastic piece and so much exposed, where the Lyriq is fully covered.
The main reason for a full cover with no frunk is for noise blocking, since the customer is only expected to lift the hood to refill wiper fluid. I guess Acura met their noise goal with just the landing strip.
@@concinnus Landing strip? 🤣
I think it looks good. But it seems to me that it is not nearly as quiet as my Ioniq 5 Limited. Also, the DCFC dropped to 107kW at only 31%? Tsk. Just last week I saw that my Ioniq 5 was still charging at 133kW when it hit 80%.
@17:18 ok now i can't not see a hearse now either thanks oos dave :P
Nice shart brown paint color, kinda matches the charging curve.
Baby diaper brown, I've done the research. The charging curve is even worse than the color though.
"It _will_ get switched to NACS, which is great." I wonder if this was recorded a few days ago?
Eeeeeeeeeeeepic Kyle you his production is exactly why u DESERVE th big bucks…….. hit ur camera woman a lick she does a great job
The thing about buying an ev from them is their engineers are essentially learning all the hard lessons learned other automakers have but the cars cost the same. In other words Acura EVs will be behind for a few years before they get decent.
Really one of the dumbest things I have ever read
I used to put maps in the pocket behind the seats. Glad they are sticking with that /s
Mom and dad are spot in. Totally looks like a hearse. What in the world were they thinking? You’d have to give it to me.
So I'm 5 minutes in the video and the car looks like a hearse with that chrome trim, too funny Acura. Is there a matching Butterscotch casket to order as a option?
Nice to see you back Kyle reviewing something more for the masses. ZDX looks really nice .
Still need 70mph for VinFast 8, Chevy Blazer, Equinox , New ID 4 ,Aryia , ..all the mid size suvs. hoping t see th entire team 5,6,7 of you take them all out for 70mph same day. Besides being very cool to watch it alo would allow you to get caught up, you're running yourself thing with all the New Evs coming out. You have a team , you dont have ot do everything.
20-80% in 42 minutes? Garbage. I’ll take my Ioniq 5 all day. And the new Polestar? THAT’S what we really need. 10 minute charge times please. This kind of charging will just turn people off.
Garbage might be a bit harsh but to each their own.
Charge at home
@@didiermejia780Ah yes of course, when driving to another city I'll just loop back to my house to charge...
Imo we need choices as some folks road tripping and eating say lunch at a sit down place?
Want 45mins to an hour of time. Whereas road trip mega bladder warriors want 5-15mins max and get going again! 😀
I have owned an EV for years and I have had to charge 6 times not at my house. 20 minutes is nothing
Wild how it's visually so much smaller than our 2023 Tesla Model X Plaid but nearly 1,000lb heavier. With half the power.
Steering ratio per Acura. 18.4:1 for the regular model and 15.9:1 for the type S.
I am from Ohio and I'm pretty sure this car is made in Spring Hill Tennessee, not Ohio. 😊. Great video awesome review!
Alyssa is correct...a lot of welding (spot)! Structural adhesive was seam sealer...
I think having cross-platform utilization is great. The more you can produce of that part the easier it will be to get and the more likely aftermarket parts will become available. Even if each of these remain somewhat niche having multiple brands use the same one should mean you'll have battery support and such down the road 🤞
Wow that reveal under the hood was... Interesting to say the least, and from a ground up ev? Yeesh
"This is a ground up battery electric vehicle chassis, meant to be an EV not shared with any combustion... What the heck is going on under here?"
This is what happens when legacy automotive engineering management design an EV. I've been an engineer in automotive for 10 years (3 years at the Big Three and 7 years in off road industrial vehicles) and this is exactly what the engineering teams I've worked with would do.
This may be a ground up EV but most of the components under the hood (brakes, HVAC, windshield wipers/fluid, fuse box assemblies) aren't ground up. Unless you are trying to innovate you either reuse or modify existing solutions. It saves so much money if you don't have to reinvent the wheel (less design time, less design reviews, less feasibility studies, less failure analysis, less prototyping, less certification, less retooling for manufacturing, etc). It's really hard to convince a project manager that it's worth the expense to make the space under the hood "prettier". It's a lot easier to convince them to get a giant piece of plastic to cover the ugly bits like they do on the Lyriq, so I'm a little surprised they have so much exposed. Maybe if they were given a directive to create a frunk they would have done things differently but Acura has decades of engine bay designs that are easy to copy/paste and modify to fit their needs instead of designing everything from scratch.
It's easy for Tesla or Rivian to have innovative solutions in those spaces because they are starting from scratch and their design budgets are built around innovating. Legacy manufacturers don't get that luxury.
@@jon1913 they should have that luxury the same as any company like Tesla or rivian, if they are a successful company they should be able to do it, I think it's a culture and attitude problem, it's too conservative
@@nathansuss You're not wrong, I was just giving my experience as to why it is the way it is. Most engineers don't go into this industry to copy/paste existing designs. We really want to make new and exciting things but we are all cogs in the corporate machine so we do what we must to get paid. Sometimes we will have to find innovative solutions to fit design constraints and those solutions will change how future products are made but we rarely are given a blank slate and a blank check to create whatever we want.
The most ground breaking innovation at my company happens during our hack-a-thons where we have a few days (or occasionally a full week) to prototype whatever innovative idea you want. It could be a process improvement or a training solution or a new product feature that would make/save the company millions of dollars. Skeptically it's the company leaching our ideas to make money but it's honestly the best week of the year! Occasionally those ideas go through the tech development process and eventually make it into production, you'll get a nice little award and maybe a bonus if the idea is patentable, which is nice. The other 51 weeks of the year we are slogging through the day to day workload of getting vehicles to customers and resolving defects.
The interesting part to me is that apparently the engineers claim they loaded up the front to increase cargo space but did they really? I think Model Y has more headroom all the while having more components underneath.
The fact that Super Cruise is a monthly fee means that it should be on all specs of the car. Why limit your potential subscriber base?
Maybe the sensor suite and electronics costs a bit? That is a good question though, if it has the same sensors as regular driving aids it should at least be included at a lower spec level. Also having super cruise as a weekly subscription would be nice. I don't need it for getting around day to day, regular lane keep and adaptive cruise is good enough, but for road trips it would be awesome!
Thank you for a detailed review. You cover things about EVs like no one else.
22:35 *pause* yeah, sure
That moment is just priceless 🤣
Did Kyle say this was made in Ohio (2:07)? ZDX is made in Spring Hill Tennessee, on the Lyriq assembly line.
Maybe he was thinking of the battery? Even then, Ultium Spring Hill has also started production.
@kyle, syncing the center-display to the cluster too has issues. The road speed limit indicator does not show. At least by default. The SOC is an absolute miss like you showed.
That carbon fiber spoiler is a $1000.00 option. The carbon fiber side mirrors are $400.00. There are several accent pieces that are sold separately.
My first thought about that trim strip was a hearse also. Nothing good looking about this car.
OMFG Kyle is that the Bank of America in Santa Barbara I've charged there when I was working in LA :)
It is incomprehensible that you can not see the battery charging level.... In EV cars it it the most important information you need to know....
Volvo doesn’t show it in their EVs either, only a range number.
The charging issue I noticed; is a reason I think all the charging ports should be a back of car. if it's facing that close to the fast charge station. it's harder to grab cooler air. If you could back in that would allow the car to take in more unrestricted air to assist the thermal management.
I think it would be great for Kyle to spend time with an AWD Lyriq. I bet it feels a lot more like the ZDX than he is expecting.
"This is a no for me, dog!" Love it 1:17:44
OH my, no lane centering! I think most people will survive. I always turn it off anyways.
Between the hearse swoosh, the squats greenhouse and the “shelf” over the taillights, the rear 3/4 view looks…..challenging.
I wonder if Alyssa just handed him a Snickers how much different this review would be. Great looking? ☑️ Great audio system? ☑️ $7,500 tax credit? ☑️ advanced self-driving? ☑️ advanced suspension? ☑️
Price is "pretty good"? $64,000 base price? I must be living in an alternate universe.
Love the color, the yellow calipers go with it too.
Alyssa holding on for dear life
It looks so damn good. I want to win a small lottery so i can get myself a honda prologue, it reminds me of an evoque
OEM carmakers should just bite the bullet and bring back Station Wagons for their EV brands. It's obvious from the design of the ZDX that this EV just has a boatload of not that efficient batteries (based on miles per kWh) in order to be somewhere in the 300 miles per charge range.
There's an article out there from Car and Driver on future EV's coming and almost all of them looked to be 'stretched' out in order to cram as many batteries in their concept car because they haven't figured out to increase/maximize the battery technology yet on a miles per kWh basis.
I'll stick with E-GMP for now.
At this price point, is the Cadillac Lyriq the better buy?
I was next to a brand new one of these at an EA charger in my etron. I noticed same exact thing happen to him that happened to you. My etron torched through while his fell off a cliff. When I left he was still at 35% with 35kW rate. Crazy.
I think the Lyriq looks better inside and out. Lots of similarities, between the two, but pricing wise, with current discounts, the Lyriq is a even a better deal. Going to be interesting to see how they sell when the Acura starts hitting dealer lots.
That highway driving sounded pretty loud over the mic
There is artificial exhaust noise pumped through the speakers - it is adjustable
You guys went off the deep end with the Slimy leather and the under hood segment. I was LOL. I appreciate yall keeping it real! Under the hood is a rats nest for a clean sheet job!
GM isn't trying to package things like a sardine in the front... They like to space things out for ease of manufacture and also for maintenance.
i like the looks despite the hearse styling cues (same criticism some make of the Odyssey Minivan despite that historically being a great seller)...
however i think it would look even better without the 3-tone paint, just make that lower Silver cladding in the same Piano Black as the roof...
yikes, how does any electric SUV weigh MORE than a BMW IX...? an EV that itself (while a tour de force in Bavarian design) was known to be a BEHEMOTH upon arrival.
Gorgeous car!! Pity about the current background!! We have SOME Accura cars over here in England!! But I don’t think this one’s come over!!
Not built in Ohio, built in Spring Hill, TN at the old Saturn factory. If that is the gold color vehicle you need to check your white balance on your video camera.
Any news whether it will get access to the Tesla Supercharger network, now with GM getting it?
So would the Lyric would actually be quieter on the hiway than the Type S? That's interesting!
Thanks. Great review on handling and charging.
Is the lighter color of the front and rear bumper a design point or was the goal to have them match the vehicle color?
I noticed that too. Hopefully this is a preproduction lol. The colour difference was very noticeable.
This is a Chevy Blazer mixed in the DNA of a Hearse side profile.
nope. A normal station wagon side profile. Why are you americans like this?
Those front tire pressures don’t make sense for the weight, that’s a massive contact patch, perhaps explains the range hit
Maybe you can test a different ZDX sometime soon to see if the charging curve is just as bad.
I actually like the rear end of this compared to the weirdness that is the Lyriq
In my opinion the Lyriq on the outside and the inside lookswise is much superior. The ZDX is a nice looking car, however it sort of blends in with the traffic around it while the Lyriq is an eye magnet. As for the steering, GM makes the Corvette. Honda could have easily told GM to "Make the steering as close as possible to the Vette." They didn't. So that was Honda's decision. Like they decided on air suspension and Brembo brakes. As for the rattles it is unfortunate, but it could be due to this being a super early production example. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. I own a 2023 Chevy Bolt EV. It has nearly 4000 miles and absolutely no rattles whatsoever. That being said the ZDX could be an excellent deal under lease as you have stated. Gr8 video as usual, Mr. Kyle! 🚗🇺🇸🔌⚡
Not having lane centering in the A-spec makes sense if you are trying to hold your production at low volumes. This is their first EV, so who knows how much money they are loosing on every car.
lol agreed - it seems like a good way to not sell cars in my opinion. Lane centering is basic auto tech at this point!
In Canada even on our major highways Super-cruise is very sparse, long Live Tesla FSD 12.3.6 it totally rocks, even on gravel roads wow!
Alyssa’s face says it all: “It’s back to the drawing board for Acura on its ZDX!”
I was about to comment it looks like a hearse, then right before you said your parents thought the same thing!! Haha
Really enjoyed Alyssa's comments.
I prefer my Cadillac Lyriq. Looks better, has more features (I have massage seats).
I don't want a pretentious GM product. I prefer the real McCoy.
The Funeral Parlour special edition!
The weight isn't that surprising. It's a big battery and primarily steel construction = heavy.
Dude always cut her off and clearly she’s not ok with that. You asked her for a thought and quickly cut her off if you won’t let her speak just talk non stop as you always do and also you are all over the place !!!
Yeah he does that in a lot of interviews/panels and with his other co-hosts. He puts out a lot of good info but I can only take his rudeness for so long so I have to watch his videos in parts!
If you think those Accura cameras are naff, take a look at the Renault Zoe camera. The Zoe only has a reversing camera. That has 360 degree cameras!!
I enjoy your reviews. Great insight and knowledge.
The rear spoiler area is definitely required for aero. Def a hearse. Strange style choice.
Gm hearse not an acura .. why did they not just put a hybrid in the mdx.. so gas ⛽️ would go up to 28mg or higher?
Looking at the back side profile reminds me of a funeral car 🤣
I believe this is the only one of your car review videos that I could not watch past the exterior description.
Still looking forward to the Audi Q6 e-tron test and review 😁
Hi Kyle, this looks like a corpseswagon to meMarcus from Germany😂😂
Is it intentionally missing covers under the hood? The Blazer EV has covers all over under the hood. Its like a 4 or 5 piece setup, one center piece, front piece by the hood latch and then 2 sides yet this has just the center. Seems like a big miss to me.
EV SUV's are an oversaturated market, but knowing it's Ultium I have high hopes of this. Although I think I'd consider a Lyriq over this due to them being a bit cheaper. Both are absolutely pretty though and the ability to turn this into a station wagon is really cool
I worked on the Prologue project with the engineers in Torrence California. GM didn’t build that car, and they didn’t build this one. They also did not design it. Honda did everything and I have the grey hair to prove it. The only thing GM did was provide us the batter pack and chassis. That was about 35% of what went into those models. The Ultium’s biggest strength is its architecture which allows consumers to swap out pieces of the battery rather than the whole pack, should any part of the battery gets damaged or malfunctions. The Ionic owners who are getting hit with $55k replacement costs would have been saved by this model.
Nobody believes you.
You’re just another Honda/Acura salesperson getting told to canvas TH-cam in order to fight negative reviews.
This car is built alongside the Blazer in a GM factory in Ramos Arizpe. It’s full of GM parts, and loads of EVs have modular batteries. Honda’s own BEVs have used modular packs. Teslas have modular packs. Hyundais have excellent warranties and the debunked myth of the $60kCAN battery replacement isn’t fooling anyone here.
That's great insight, and the first time I've ever heard of Ultiium's battery being partially swappable. I wish I had learned about it before!
I do wonder about the battery pack and chassis detail you mention. If that's the case, then what's up with the switch gear? The window switches, stalks, steering wheel, etc very much look like GM parts bin rather than Honda/Acura.
@@alvin.holbrook re: "That's great insight, and the first time I've ever heard of Ultiium's battery being partially swappable." all true, it was one of the features GM made of point of promoting when the Ultium system was announced a few years back. TH-cam search for some of the original videos and you'll likely see it.
Why would I buy a Honda, if it's not a Honda? That's the inverse of buying a Pontiac Vibe when it's a Toyota Matrix.
From the outside it looks like a really large stationwagon
And Lyriq is great
Or a hearse 😂
@@bearsford796 no
Plus 1 on the "It's a hearse" reaction
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Hopefully they get better. For the price I’d rather take a model x.
You didn't mention the grandaddy of all electric EVs - the model X. How does it compare?
They don't care for Model X due to something about how the doors close.
Haven't seen anyone else mention being annoyed by it.
@@davidmenasco5743 Consumer Reports says the Model X rear doors are a deal breaker, so Out of Spec isn't alone on that front.
Model X is a mess.
4:08 the e:ny1 uses BYD’s tech
I should be getting into one within the week, wont waste my time with Blazer, the Base version of this lol
I do not think Acura can build this or any EV for the north american market in 2024. Maybe in a few years. This is the best they can do in our market for this year. I think this was a good fit for Honda to go with, the wait would have hurt their brand. The lease market is ripe for this ZDX
This is also in competition with the model X, I mean in the us with the tax credit the model X starts at 64k, does this car get the credit?
From the side, it looks like a hearse. Hopefully it doesn’t die in sales like it does in looks.
1:24:00 I just saw spinners for the first time in ages too. Maybe they’re making a comeback…