Would you say the 2009 New York Auto Show was right place to display the 2010 Acura ZDX?”
April 10, 2009, 7:30 am Young Acura Designer Watches Her Baby Arrive By Jerry Garrett It was an emotional day for Michelle Christensen. Her “baby” was coming into the world. “Watching, I felt like I was going to tear up,” she said. Ms. Christensen is a 28-year-old exterior designer for Acura. Her baby was the ZDX, a sleek, genre-defying four-door crossover. It was the first unique product from Acura’s new, dedicated design studio in Torrance, Calif. And this was its world premiere at the 2009 New York auto show, which opens to the public Friday. It was the culmination of a dizzying ride for Ms. Christensen. Four years ago, she was hired by the company right out of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. This is the same college that produced the likes of Chip Foose, the prodigy who penned the Plymouth Prowler. Her senior project had been to design a muscle car, and the outcome was so good that Acura hired her. She started out sketching mundane items like door handles. But
