Acura says the new RSX crossover isn't intended to be a successor to the beloved sport compact. Does that change anything?

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).

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,