Oh look, an Acura ZDX!

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/02/2018 at 11:17 • Filed to: None

Last night before heading to the gym, I went grocery shopping with my wife. Our go-to grocery store is often a bit of a madhouse and she likes it better if I come with her. But this here Acura ZDX got me in a teensy weensy little bit of not-actually marital trouble.

For those not familiar with Woodman’s, it’s a large Wisconsin grocery store chain owned by a crazy man named Phil Woodman, his family, and their employees. Their stores are known for great prices and selection, terrible layouts, ugly brown interior decor straight out of the 70s, and infuriating tile floors that rattle the fuck out of your cart. If this doesn’t sound appealing to you...but dem low low prices tho.

I’m the primary grocery shopper in my house, but my wife has been doing more of it lately. Our plan was for me to help her with the shopping and then when she got to the checkout line I’d head to the gym while she took the groceries home. So that’s what we did, and I headed out to my car, but then I saw this Acura ZDX that had parked across the aisle from me, and I couldn’t resist taking this picture.

But that meant that right as I was taking the picture, my wife came out of the store pushing our cart, saw me, and gave me some shit about leaving her and not helping her put the groceries in her car, even though at the checkout line she had just told me to head to the gym and kissed me goodbye.

I wasn’t actually in trouble, but still, I heard about it. Thanks, Acura ZDX!

DISCUSSION (10)

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:22

I’m glad the ZDX is dead...never saw the point of such an odd shaped vehicle.

Chariotoflove > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:23

I’m the primary grocery shopper too. I take my daughter and the van. No wife to second guess me...until I get home.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:24

The ZDX has one of THE worst back seat accesses and THE most claustrohphic interior outside of a Camaro. I think the Toyota C-HR comes close. And don’t even get me started on that beak

PS. Can one of the mods ungray me pretty please?

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:31

That front end is aging a bit more gracefully than I would’ve thought. I think it’s aging better than the Murano of the same era.

Tekamul > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:33

You witnessed 0.016% of all ZDXs sold in the US. Still seems like too little.

Textured Soy Protein > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
03/02/2018 at 11:34

The SHIT segment is working out pretty well for BMW and Mercedes. The ZDX was a failure for 2 reasons:

In addition to chopping the roof off the back of the MDX, Acura also shortened the wheelbase which totally killed the back seat.

Acura’s not fancy enough of a brand to sell a SHIT.

Textured Soy Protein > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
03/02/2018 at 11:36

That’s because Acura decided to shorten the MDX’s wheelbase to make the ZDX where the X6 and other similar BMW & Mercedes models only make the back ends swoopy.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 11:47

huh, never knew they chopped the wheelbase. Granted I’ve only sat in one once and immediately felt out of place.

E92M3 > Textured Soy Protein
03/02/2018 at 14:02

When you produce a vehicle that makes even the Pontiac Aztek seem like a huge success.

I swear these things just go from auction to auction. Every once in a while a dealer thinks they can make money on it, after sitting on the lot for 9 months with no test drives, it goes back to the auction circuit.

Textured Soy Protein > E92M3
03/02/2018 at 14:15

This one was either purchased or registered not too long ago. Wisconsin switched from 6 to 7 digit license plates sometime within the last year and change.