The Acura RSX name last appeared on a car in 2006. Twenty years later, it’s back — and this time it means something completely different.
Not a front-wheel-drive sport compact. Not a Honda Civic with better seats. The 2026 Acura RSX Electric is a purpose-built electric fastback crossover, assembled at Honda’s Marysville, Ohio plant, running on a brand-new platform, and powered by software that Honda has never shipped in a production vehicle before.
It’s the most ambitious Acura product in at least a decade. And the details confirm it deserves that description.
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Why Ohio Matters More Than the Name
Let’s start with the factory — because in May 2026, where a car is built matters as much as how it drives.
The RSX Electric is manufactured at Honda’s Marysville, Ohio facility. That single fact insulates it from the tariff chaos that’s hammering European and Korean-built EVs right now. No import exposure. No pricing instability from policy changes. The RSX Electric’s sticker price won’t move because of what happens in Washington — unlike, say, the Audi Q4 E-Tron built in Zwickau, Germany.
Honda made a deliberate choice here. After the Prologue — built on GM’s platform in Mexico — underperformed and was discontinued, Honda went the opposite direction. Their own platform. Their own plant. American workers.
The ASIMO OS — Honda’s Biggest Software Bet 
The RSX Electric is the first production vehicle in the world to run Honda’s ASIMO OS — named after the company’s legendary humanoid robot, which Honda spent 20+ years developing before discontinuing in 2022.
That software investment didn’t disappear. It became the foundation for Honda’s automotive AI platform.
ASIMO OS handles everything: driver assistance, infotainment, energy management, and over-the-air updates. Honda’s ambition is a software-defined vehicle that genuinely improves over time — not the usual story of a carmaker shipping half-ready technology and promising fixes later.
Early demonstrations suggest the system is fast and intuitive, with voice recognition that handles natural conversation better than most automotive AI currently available. Whether it performs that way when customers actually use it daily is the question that only a real-world launch can answer.
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The Specs That Make It Serious
Powertrain: Dual electric motors, all-wheel drive standard across every trim. No FWD option. Honda believes RSX buyers want confidence in all conditions.
Brakes: Brembo brakes standard. Not an option. Not a package upgrade. Every RSX Electric ships with Brembo — the same supplier used by Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche. For a $40,000-$50,000 vehicle, that’s an unusual commitment.
Vehicle-to-Home: Bidirectional charging standard. The RSX can power your home during an outage — joining the Ford F-150 Lightning, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and Chevy Bolt as one of the few vehicles that doubles as emergency home backup.
Expected range: Approximately 300 miles EPA. Not class-leading, but competitive for a sporty AWD vehicle at this price point.
Expected pricing: $40,000-$50,000 depending on trim. A Type S performance variant — which would be the version RSX loyalists actually care about — is expected but not yet confirmed. If Honda builds a Type S with 400+ HP and sport-tuned suspension, this becomes a genuinely different conversation.
What Acura Needs This Car to Do
Acura had a good Q1 2026. The only major luxury brand to grow year-over-year — up 5.2%. The Integra is selling well. The MDX is strong. But the brand has been without a credible EV offering since discontinuing the GM-built ZDX in September 2025.
The RSX Electric fills that gap with something Acura hasn’t had in a long time: a vehicle that represents genuine engineering ambition rather than a rebadged version of something else.
Deliveries begin in the second half of 2026. Given that it’s built in Ohio on a new platform with new software, expect early inventory to be limited. If you’re interested — and you should be, given the specs — getting on a dealer list before launch makes sense.
The RSX name carried real meaning in 2001. Whether it earns that meaning again in 2026 depends on execution. Everything on paper suggests Honda finally built the right foundation to make it happen.
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