I have noticed while shopping for an RDX, and now after taking delivery of one, there is a serious lack of information available on HT. If at all possible, I'd like to remedy that. I call this place home and I'm not interested in going elsewhere to obtain or share information.

After owning a Fit for two and a half years, my wife and I decided we'd really love to have more space for the two kids' car seats and stroller. From experience, we knew we wanted to upgrade to something with leather and we had had our eyes on new or nearly new CRV's for quite a while. A small SUV or crossover would be perfect for us, providing a little more space and certainly more ammenities than we had with the Fit Sport.

I'm a die-hard Honda/Acura guy, having owned 13 of their products (14 if you include my lawn mower) in the last eight years. With that said, I obviously wanted to stay in the Honda family. We drove a couple new CRV's and liked them quite a bit, but by the time you choose the EX-L for the leather and 4WD, we were up to the $28k range. I looked into '07 and up MDX's because I think they are gorgeous, but most were still out of our comfort zone with respect to the price. Not caring for the '06 and earlier MDX body style, I decided to check into RDX's wondering if they had come down enough in price. Sure enough, we found an '07 RDX at a local Honda dealership so we compared it side by side with the CRV EX-L.

The size seemed nearly identical, but as far as the aesthetics, driving experience, power, and most notably the seat comfort (oddly enough), we knew the RDX was what we were after. We took that Diamond White Pearl '07 base RDX home for an overnight test drive and loved it. During that period of time, I located a Carbon Gray '07 RDX with a Tech Package with half the miles and a similar price a couple of hours away. I called the next day, we negotiated over the phone, the salesman drove it down and we sent the Fit home with him.

Given that most vehicles take the most significant hit in value when they are purchased brand new, I felt much better about buying a slightly used (26,000 miles) RDX and not having to suffer that initial blow as I would with a brand new CRV.

The amount of technology in this thing is ridiculous. Like I said, I'm a Honda fan and have been for nearly a decade, but after owning the RDX I have even more respect for the company. The navigation could certainly be more user friendly, but other than that it's fantastic. The biggest down side by far is the fuel economy. We are getting between 19 and 21 with a city/hwy mix. A long rode trip over the weekend doing 60 on the highway gave us 24mpg. Not too bad for 4000lbs and boost, I guess.

I would rather have had white, but not for twice the miles and no tech package.









The RDX is primarily for moving the kids during the day, the family in the evening/weekends and for me to have some fun with when no one else is in it. I drive my EF sedan to and from work.