Honda and Acura have a pattern of showing multiple stages of concepts, those that we would more traditionally think of as design concepts and what they like to call prototypes. The concepts are a bit more out there and the public prototypes are for all intents and purposes the production models,

CR previews the all-new 2027 Acura RSX electric vehicle, an EV with dual-motor all-wheel drive and a host of new technology developed in-house.

The 2025 Acura RSX concept revealed in Monterey this week leans heavier toward the latter category, taking on the shape of a performance crossover that quite explicitly previews an electric Acura model due in the second half of 2026. (Squint hard enough and you might see a familiar EV crossovers or two).