Acura

Acura is a luxury brand of Japanese automaker Honda Motor Company. It has been used in the US, Canada and Hong Kong since March 1986 to market Honda's luxury automobiles and near-luxury vehicles. The brand was introduced to Mexico in 2004 and to the Chinese market in 2006. It is also planned to extend Acura to the Japanese domestic market two years from 2008 or so. With the Acura brand, Honda is credited with being the first to tap into a market for luxury Japanese cars outside Japan. Before Acura, automobiles exported from Japan were primarily economical in design and largely targeted at low-cost consumers.

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Acura, a division of Honda — road car timeline, 1986-present

Type

1980s

1990s

2000s

6

7

8

9

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Entry-Level

Coupe

Integra

Integra

Integra

RSX

Sedan

TSX

1.6EL

1.7EL

CSX

Mid-size

Coupe

2.2CL/2.3CL/3.0CL

3.2CL

Sedan

Vigor

2.5TL/3.2TL

3.2TL

TL

Full-size

Legend

Legend

3.5RL

3.5RL

RL

Crossover

RDX

MDX

MDX

SUV

SLX

Sports

NSX