Honda Car Forum

Acura is a little different than other luxury brands. None of its cars have V8 engines or RWD. What bothers me the most is that Acura doesn't have any 'sporty' offerings for a brand that used to be quite sporty. Where's the coupes and convertibles? What happened to the RSX and NSX? Those would have made good convertibles. Even the parent company Honda only offers one convertible, the S2000. Is Honda against lowered tops or something?

Convertibles sell in small numbers, and the powers that be must feel there's no money them.

the acura rl and tl have awd and 300hp. thats sporty enough for me. acura still sells the nsx but not in america.

Honda simply feels that there isn't enough of a market to justify putting in the research and development costs to create these. The S2000 is a nice car, but it isn't enough to hold the company afloat. Designing their Civic, Accord, etc to be better is, in their opinion, going to help them in the long run rather than developing a sporty high performance car, since for every sports car, they sell loads of people movers. They developed the NSX, and it lasted about 15 years. They are going to release a new car, based on the prototype ASCC, and it may have a convertible option, who knows.