2002 Acura RSX Consumer Reviews

The acura I found was in mint condition, exactly as stated! No rust for a vehicle in the rust belt was an awesome surprise! All it needed was a timing chain!

Bought new, 175,000 miles on it. Both front seats developed tears so covered them red/black neoprene. Replaced headlights due plastic dulling. Do 50% of my driving in the mountains of NC and I've got to tell you - fun, fun, fun. Running thru the gears on those curves is what it's about. 18 years later, still average 35 mpg. Wife gets beeped at by young drivers and given a thumbs-up.

I bought my 2004 Type S in 2009 with 46,000 miles on it. Now 12 years later and at 260,000 miles, I know I'm going to need to replace it soon and it breaks my heart. In my opinion, the RSX Type S was a perfect mix of reliability, performance, style, and quality seriously lacking in today's vehicles. I loathe the day I have to give it up.

My Family and I drove this car for 170K miles after buying it and the only reason we stopped was a wreck. Car was safe and even through a hard wreck I only had minor soreness. The RSX was a perfect sporty and convenient mix that I wish Acura or Honda would make again to give an alternative to the Civic Hatches which are hard to even find used. If you want a cheap to fix reliable car this is the one. Only problems were mainly minor like the leather seats will tear, the motor to roll up the windows died on me twice, and the starter started to get bad after about 20 years but these are all expected problems especially with the wear and tear from pizza delivery.

I love this car it’s my first Honda/Acura k series I studied this car in and out when I bought it! I have 280,000 miles on the car. I drive back n fourth to North Carolina and Ohio all the time. Maintenance is super cheap and car is reliable it’s pretty fast stock. I’ve done some upgrades to it never touched the motor tho and I can’t get off this this I race this everytime I get in the car could be another con/ everyone that sees you tries to race you too lol. But anyway I literally beat the brakes off this car non stop and it won’t brake at 280,000 I might have to get a new clutch soon but it’s an affordable part and I’ll even get a stronger one than stock. But I love this car I can’t brake it I’ve tried. It doesn’t flinch I bang limiter, roll backs still, rolls, drag pulls, I slam gears redline all my gears a lot! I change my fluids every 3k flush all that and she goes n goes !

Fun drive

I bought this car new in 2005, and have not regretted that decision for a second. The seats practically molded to my body when I sat down; it felt more like I was putting the car on then getting into it. It's not the fastest car on the block, but it's plenty quick enough to be fun, even around the track. The only drawback there has to do with my 6'3" frame, which means my helmet hits the ceiling. Mechanically, she's been one of the most reliable cars I've ever owned. Aside from a recall item around 30k miles (the 3rd gear synchro kept popping out), I haven't had to do any maintenance beyond normal fluid changes, tires and brakes as they wear out, and a timing chain and clutch replacement at 100k. I've put almost 130k miles on her so far, and she's barely showing her age. She's just now starting to show a little bit of rust around a couple chips on the hood - I'm planning to care of that before it gets too bad, in order to have her gracing my garage for another 130k miles.

Vary economical gets 35mpg city and 40mpg highway, very well built - the tires lasted 13 years and still had tread on them, but they were a little hard so had to get new ones. Very little maintenance needed due to being very well built and use of good materials. I wish Acura still made this car, as I would buy another.