Who owns Acura?
Acura is owned by Honda (Japan, NYSE: HMC).[1]
Evidence: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-06-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 June 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1986
- Category
- Automotive › Cars › Luxury cars
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: HMC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Acura
Acura is the premium marque Honda established in 1986, launching an exclusive sales network for it in the United States separate from its Honda dealers. It has stayed a North American proposition above all. Honda does not report it as a segment of its own — Acura sales sit inside the automobile business — and the company says roughly 47 per cent of its group automobile units, Acura included, were sold in North America in the year to 31 March 2026, against 27 per cent in Asia and 18 per cent in Japan.
What Honda's annual report says about Acura
Sentences about Acura from Honda's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In 1986, the Acura Brand was established and an exclusive sales network was launched in the United States.
How often Honda names Acura in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Acura
Where Acura sits in Honda
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Honda
Honda controls 2 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in automotive.
Also in automotive
- Honda (1948)
Other brands in luxury cars, and who owns them
The 19 brands in luxury cars on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Volkswagen Group, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| BMW | BMW Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Denza | BYD | 🇨🇳 China |
| Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Jaguar | Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles | 🇮🇳 India |
| Audi | Volkswagen Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Lincoln | Ford | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hyptec | GAC Group | 🇨🇳 China |
| Volvo Cars | Geely | 🇨🇳 China |
About the owner: Honda
Honda is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1948. Brandtree records 2 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: HMC.
Honda was incorporated in Tokyo on 24 September 1948 as Honda Giken Kogyo, successor to the unincorporated enterprise Soichiro Honda had established in 1946 to make motors for motorised bicycles. It reports in four segments — motorcycles, automobiles, financial services, and power products and other businesses — and in the year to 31 March 2026 took ¥21.8 trillion of revenue, 64 per cent of it from cars and 18 per cent from motorcycles. It is far larger in two wheels than in four by volume: 22.1 million motorcycles against 3.4 million automobiles on a group basis, with about 85 per cent of the motorcycles sold in Asia. Its other businesses include the HondaJet, delivered since December 2015.
🇺🇸 Acura and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Acura among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Acura?
The parent company of Acura is Honda, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Acura American or Japanese?
Acura originated in the United States in 1986, but it is owned today by Honda, which is headquartered in Japan. So Acura is an American-origin brand under Japanese ownership.
Is Acura still owned by Honda?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Acura is still owned by Honda. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-06-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 18 June 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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