History

Born from Honda in March 1986, Acura has set itself up a notch from the Honda lineup by presenting more luxurious and more expensive models. The first models Acura offered on the american and canadian markets were the Integra and the Legend.

With the introduction of the NSX in 1989, Acura gained momentarily a huge reconnaissance in pair to compete with other long-established manufacturer such as Ferrari and other brands manufacturing high-end super cars. The notoriety brought by the NSX went on to position the Acura brand within a respected elite of the car world and prospered to this day. The introduction of the new NSX (NC1) in 2016 ravived the brand as ones of the leaders of automative success.

With other Japanese brands focussing on SUVs, Acura invitably has to offer something to position itself on many markets.
We usually think that Acura models were only sold in Canada and the United States. However it is to be noted that Honda decided to introduce the brand on other markets.
China had some Acura models not sold on other shores but the brand was retired there. Panama, Kuwait, Mexico, Hong Kong, Russia and Ukraine also had Acura cars sold new on their territory.

It should be noted however, that many of the models destined to be sold as Acura do have Honda underpinings and have had a Honda-branded twin sold on the Japan Domestic Market (JDM) at one point or another.

To say it bluntly, most of the models sold by Acura have been produced in Japan and sold there under the Honda badge and the LHD versions have been shipped to North America with an Acura badge.

There may be some exceptions to this rule, notably concerning the Acura EL (1997-2000) twins which are the Honda Domani and Isuzu Gemini which were seemingly assembled in Canada and then shipped back to Japan and Taiwan. Not a lot of information is available on the specifics of the production of these models coming from the Alliston factory in Ontario, Canada.

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To see the complete list of "Alpha 3" country codes used in these pages to specify the market in which the model was sold, please visit the following website :
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/country_code_list.htm
(We added (EUR) for Europe, (NAM) for North America, (SAM) for South America and (GCC) for Gulf Cooperation Council)

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