coupled with high repair costs, make the 2001 our first of the Acura MDX years to avoid. By 2003, Acura had made minor updates to the MDX, but many of the early issues persisted. Transmission ...

In an effort to be fully transparent to you, the reader, I owned a first-generation Acura ... of the MDX, so I left it on the majority of the time. It has a 10-speed automatic transmission which ...