The RDX is one of few compact luxury SUVs with standard LED headlights, while the well-proven model comes standard with a powerful V6, a pricey option with its rivals if available at all. (Photo: Karen Tuggay, Canadian Auto Press) The RDX’ standard LED headlamps really stand out. Obviously premium SUV buyers like the RDX’ styling, its sharp, sporty lines and standard LED headlamps plenty distinctive, while that latter feature brings up another important point, value for money. Buick’s new Envision is priced a bit lower too, at $40,195, and while it did fairly well for its first full year at 3,357 units, even if it combined sales with the Porsche Macan’s 3,767 deliveries it would still come up short (see pricing for all 2018 Acura RDX trims at ). (Photo: Karen Tuggay, Canadian Auto Press)Īt $42,390 plus freight and fees it’s not the cheapest in the segment, that honour held by Infiniti’s QX50 that starts at $38,900 yet only found 1,812 customers during 2017, so price is clearly not the sole differentiator.

So what does the RDX have that the others don’t? A good inherent design has kept the RDX fresh despite its age. Now consider the only model to outsell the RDX’ 8,101 units, Audi’s Q5 with 10,271 down the road, was all-new for most of last year, so therefore sold 23.5 percent more examples than the year prior due to pent up demand the third-place Mercedes-Benz GLC, at 8,057 units, was new just two years prior in 2015 the fourth-place Lexus NX, with 7,407 buyers, arrived the year before the fifth-place BMW X3, at 5,730 units, entered its third generation partway through the year and the other nine competitors didn’t sell in high enough numbers to truly compete. The RDX just passed six years since the current second-generation design went into production in March of 2012, and despite only a minor facelift in 2016, Acura Canada still managed to find more compact luxury SUV buyers in 2017 than all but one of its competitors. I want you to think about something for a moment. The Acura RDX still looks sharp after all these years, especially in top-line Elite trim.

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