Acura SLX

The SLX was Acura's first attempt at an SUV, sold 1996-1999, and it was simply a rebadged Isuzu Trooper with Acura badging and a slightly upgraded interior. Body-on-frame, with a 3.2L V6 (1996-1997) or 3.5L V6 (1998-1999), automatic only, four-wheel drive. Acura's positioning of a body-on-frame truck as a luxury vehicle didn't work — buyers wanted Lexus LX or Mercedes ML refinement, not Trooper underpinnings. Sales were poor and the SLX was killed for 1999 to make room for the MDX, which was developed on Honda's unibody platform and immediately succeeded where the SLX had failed. Today the SLX is forgotten — most have been cycled through cheap hands and few remain in clean condition.