The Acura RSX is the most recent sporty nameplate from yesteryear that’s been revived, and reimagined for the trendy automotive panorama.
As an alternative of being a sporting-ish three-door coupe, the brand new RSX is a high-riding five-door SUV with an “expressive coupe-like silhouette”.
Scheduled to make its in-the-flesh debut at Pebble Seaside Concours d’Magnificence this weekend, the RSX Prototype is in true Honda style a really thinly disguised model of the manufacturing automobile, with the wing mirror design seemingly the one change.
It will likely be the primary manufacturing mannequin based mostly on Honda’s new in-house EV platform, and can be manufactured within the firm’s Ohio manufacturing unit. Gross sales of the brand new RSX will start within the second half of 2026.
In accordance with Acura, the manufacturing RSX can have a dual-motor all-wheel drive system, double wishbone entrance suspension, and Brembo brakes as commonplace. No phrase but on outputs, efficiency figures, battery capacities, or vary.
It can additionally function the corporate’s new Asimo OS that controls not solely the infotainment system, but in addition driver help, autonomous driving, and primary {hardware} features.
Likened to a smartphone working system — to not point out OSes in different manufacturers, comparable to Tesla and Rivian — Asimo OS helps over-the-air updates, excessive ranges of driver customisation, related companies, and machine studying to adapt to the driving force’s leisure and driving preferences.
The RSX is the second mannequin identify Acura has introduced again from the useless for an electrical SUV; the ZDX holds the honour of being the primary.
Whereas the second-generation ZDX stayed true to the coupe SUV silhouette of the unique, it and the carefully associated Honda Prologue are literally Honda designs on high of GM’s BEV3 platform. Each not solely use GM’s EV expertise, however are constructed by the Basic.
Acura started mining its nameplate historical past in 2022 when it launched the Integra liftback, mainly a calmly restyled Honda Civic outfitted with its strongest engines.
Bought for only one era from 2002, the unique RSX (above) was a rebranded fourth-generation Integra. Not like the Integra, which was out there in each three- and five-door liftback guises, the RSX solely ever got here with three doorways.
When it departed the scene in 2006, it turned the last-ever non-NSX coupe from the model, and ended the model’s opening period the place it intentionally courted younger fanatics.
The shift from Integra to RSX got here on the tail finish of the marque’s dumping of its authentic mannequin names: Legend for RL, Vigor for TL, and Integra for RSX. The shift to letters was reportedly as a result of a need to focus homeowners’ affections on the general marque somewhat than particular person fashions.
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