Acura wanted the MDX to be bold and clean, a luxury sports sedan combined with truck-like utility. The front end is certainly bold, with a distinctive Acura five-point grille, coupled with a tapered profile and tail that evoke the Audi Q7 and Mercedes-Benz GL-Class in equal doses. Add in the sexy fender blisters (and really, how often are blisters referred to as sexy?), and the end result is an SUV that looks anything but Japanese.