Acura News
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Details regarding what and when for upcoming Honda and Acura vehicles haven't yet been announced—partly as so much of it depends on GM.
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2024 Acura ZDX EV debuts around $60,000, 325-mile range projected
The Acura ZDX is an electric SUV set to be built alongside the Cadillac Lyriq, at the same former Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee
Bengt Halvorson -
Acura confirms ZDX name for brand’s first electric vehicle—and Type S performance version
It also confirmed upcoming Type S performance variants of the ZDX that “will continue to put the driver experience first in the electrified future.”
Bengt Halvorson -
Acura Precision EV Concept suggests a driver-driven duality in its future electric vehicles
EVs are coming to the Acura brand, and the Precision EV Concept shows the shape of them—wrapped in an entirely new interface for the automated-driving era.
Bengt Halvorson -
Report: Acura will make EVs a bigger piece of its future, sooner than Honda
The Acura brand is going to bypass hybrids going forward—unlike its mainstream Honda counterpart—and instead focus on EVs.
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Acura CDX could migrate from China as luxury subcompact crossover
Acura today has a thin lineup that has as many passenger sedans as crossover utility vehicles. With only the TLX, RDX, MDX, RLX, and NSX to work with, Honda's premium line doesn't compete in a number of important markets. The most glaring absence is in the raging hot subcompact crossover realm...
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The 2017 Acura NSX will have a total system output of 573 horsepower.
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Acura CDX Trademarked: Small Luxury Crossover Based On Honda HR-V To Come?
A trademark filing refuels rumors of an Acura crossover based on the Honda HR-V.
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Acura NSX Supercar Unveiled In Detroit: This Time It's a Hybrid!
The 2016 Acura NSX hybrid supercar is unveiled at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show.
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2014 Acura RLX Hybrid: 3 Motors, AWD--Most Sophisticated Hybrid Yet?
Several manufacturers now offer gas-saving hybrid versions of their vehicles but it's surprisingly rare to find two companies who have gone about it in the same way. The early pioneers, Toyota and Honda, fielded completely different systems at launch--and well over a decade down the line Honda has...
Antony Ingram -
Recall For 2013-2014 Acura ILX Hybrid Headlamp Problem
The just-discontinued Acura ILX Hybrid is recalled for overheating headlamps.
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Acura Kills ILX Hybrid For 2015; Only Two Mild Hybrids Left
Another one bites the dust. Following the cancellation of the Honda Insight after the 2014 model year, Honda's upmarket Acura brand has eliminated the hybrid model from its entry-luxury ILX compact sedan lineup for 2015. The 2015 Acura ILX will be offered with two of the previous three powertrains...
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Honda is mulling an Acura-badged version of the Vezel compact crossover.
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Acura NSX Hybrid Supercar To Make On-Track Debut At Mid-Ohio
Hybrid supercars are officially in fashion. We've been positively inundated by the things over the last year or so, from BMW's upcoming i8 plug-in hybrid, to the exotic Ferrari LaFerrari, Porsche 918 and McLaren P1 trio, to this: The Acura NSX. Like its historical namesake, it's the Acura destined...
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Acura NSX Hybrid Supercar To Be Designed, Built Here In U.S.
The Honda NSX sports car is ingrained into Japanese car culture, but the latest model will be every bit as American as it is Japanese. Sold under the Acura brand in the U.S, Honda has now announced the new hybrid supercar will be produced at the company's Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio...
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2014 Acura ILX Sport Sedan: More Features, Hybrid Later
For its second model year, Acura has added new features to the ILX compact sedan, which serves as its entry-level vehicle. The 2014 Acura ILX will go on sale tomorrow at dealers for Honda's luxury brand, but an announcement of new features and upgrades thus far applies only to the two...
John Voelcker -
Elon Musk & SolarCity Offer Honda, Acura Owners Subsidized Solar Power
Do you own a Honda, or maybe an Acura? You might be eligible for a discount on solar power at your home. If you think that sounds strange, you're right. Why would a solar company partner with an automaker to provide solar arrays for owners of certain cars? The answer appears to be: market research...
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Updated Acura NSX Hybrid Supercar Concept Debuts In Detroit
It’s not quite the production version of the new NSX that we were hoping for, but the updated concept car presented at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show today does give us a much better idea as to what the production version, due sometime in the next couple of years, will be like. We can clearly see...
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At the start of this year, at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Honda’s luxury arm Acura wooed the crowds with the world premiere of its NSX hybrid supercar concept. At the time, Acura promised its new flagship car would be on the roads for 2015 and ran a Super Bowl ad so popular, it crashed Acura’s website. Now it looks as if Acura has moved its production schedule forward, with plans to premiere the production-ready re-imagining of its iconic supercar at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show in January. As Auto Express reports, the cat was let out of the proverbial bag by one of Honda’s...
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2013 Acura ILX Hybrid: Weekend Test Of Acura's First Hybrid
Honda has been building hybrid cars since 1999, but it's taken until now for the company to offer a hybrid model in the company's upmarket Acura brand. We spent three days with, and covered 300 miles in, a new 2013 Acura ILX Hybrid four-door sedan. And we have to say, while we like the ILX as a...
John Voelcker -
2013 Acura ILX Hybrid: Driven
Though it has wandered through a handful of brand identities and images over the past decade, Acura continues to reinvent itself. This time, the next new thing is a hybrid using Acura's first ever implementation of Honda's familiar hybrid system (on a modified Civic platform) in the 2013 ILX. Entry...
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Acura NSX Hybrid Roadster Revealed In Avengers Promo
Cool cars have always played big parts in movies, and now it's the turn of the Acura NSX Roadster, set to appear in The Avengers. The roadster version of Acura's hybrid sports car was spotted on set during filming last year, but Acura has now revealed that the NSX Roadster will be used by Tony...
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2013 Acura ILX Hybrid Expected To Reach 38 MPG Highway
The 2013 Acura ILX will be the company's first entry into the compact sedan market since the Integra, but of most interest to GreenCarReports readers is the hybrid version. Previewed in concept form at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, the production ILX, Acura's first ever hybrid model, will make its...
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Acura Super Bowl Ad: What'd You Swap For NSX Hybrid Supercar?
The stakes are high for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday. Not just for the New York Giants and New England Patriots, though, but for the sponsors who spend millions on the precious seconds of advertising time during ad breaks. We don't know how much Acura's two minutes are costing to promote its 2015...
Antony Ingram