Ed Martin Acura is about 15 miles west of Fortville, at 3800 E 96th Street, where 96th meets Keystone Avenue. Buying a new Acura, buying a certified used one and booking service all happen at that one address, and the drive stays across the top of the city, well clear of downtown.
We are family-owned. New Acuras and Acura Certified Pre-Owned cars share the lot with used cars of other makes, and service, parts and tires are all handled at the same address.
Fortville sits in the northwest corner of Hancock County, in Vernon Township, roughly 20 to 25 miles northeast of downtown Indianapolis. It is a town rather than a city, run by a Town Council, and its town limits and its 46040 postal code do not cover the same ground.
That three-county corner is where it gets complicated. Hamilton County begins a short way northwest and Madison County a short way north, and the postal boundary follows neither. The 46040 ZIP code spreads well past the town limits: most of its land is Hancock County, a piece on the Geist end (the area around Geist Reservoir, the big lake west of town) belongs to Hamilton County, and the north end reaches into Madison County. So a 46040 address and a Fortville address are not the same thing. County, school district, tax rate and even which town you live in are each decided by something other than the postal code, and here is what decides them.
| The question | Where the answer actually comes from |
|---|---|
| Which county am I in | The land your house sits on, not your ZIP code. Your property tax bill names the county, and so does your vehicle registration. 46040 covers land in three of them: Hancock, Hamilton and Madison |
| Which school district am I in | The district boundary, which follows streets rather than ZIP codes. Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation serves the town; part of the Geist side of the ZIP is Hamilton Southeastern instead. Call either one with your address and they will tell you |
| Which tax rate and township apply | The county your land sits in. Fortville itself is in Vernon Township, Hancock County; the ZIP code names neither |
| Which town do I live in | The town limits. Plenty of 46040 mail is delivered to households outside them, which puts those households in the county rather than in any town |
The school row trips people up. Part of the Geist end is zoned to Hamilton Southeastern rather than to Mt. Vernon, and Geist Elementary is one of its schools, so two families whose mail carries the same ZIP code can be in different districts.
Fortville and McCordsville, the next town over, run as a pair. They share the Mt. Vernon school corporation and a joint chamber of commerce, and enough of ordinary life crosses between them that the two names are rarely spoken apart. We sell and service across both towns, and across the Geist end of the ZIP as well.
Broadway Street is what Fortville calls the road that carries US 36 and SR 67 through town. The name changes community by community along its length, so the same stretch of road answers to more than one name. Neighbors tend to give directions by the local street name while your phone gives them by the route number, which is how the two can sound like different roads. Both are describing the same road.
Two more state highways come to an end inside the town: SR 13 at Broadway and Madison, SR 238 at Michigan and Main. If you steer by route number, that is worth knowing, because neither number continues past town.
Main Street kept its diagonal parking, and that small piece of design earns its place: it puts the cars right along the storefronts, in full view of everybody walking past. Those storefronts are a restored run from the early 1900s, and the Browne-Rafert House on Merrill Street, built in 1914, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2015.
The town itself goes back further. Cephas Fort laid out the original lots along Flat Fork, the creek that runs through town, in 1849; the Bee Line Railroad arrived in 1852 and named its station after him; and Fortville became an incorporated town in 1865. Flat Fork still runs through the town it shaped, and Landmark Park and Memorial Park are where Fortville keeps its parkland.
Main Street fills up with cars for most of the warm half of the year. A cruise-in, meaning an informal gathering where people park interesting cars along the street and walk the row, runs weekly from early spring into late fall, and the bigger Cruise On Main takes over the street every September. Both are organized by the nonprofit Fortville Action, Inc.
A town that lines its main street with cars most weeks tends to have people in it who think about vehicles as more than transport, and that shows up in what customers ask in the showroom. Paint condition, wheel finish, how an interior has held up, whether a car was kept in a garage: those questions come up alongside the ones about the monthly payment.
The Acura range comes to four vehicles, three of them SUVs.
The MDX is the largest: three rows of seats, the only six-cylinder engine in the Acura lineup, and a choice between front-wheel and all-wheel drive. It makes 290 horsepower through most of the range and 355 in the Type S, the performance version. Acura calls its versions grades, which is the same idea as trim levels; only two of the MDX grades come in front-wheel drive, the base MDX and the Technology, and every grade above those is all-wheel drive. With all-wheel drive and a hitch and trailer wiring installed it is rated to tow 5,000 pounds, and 3,500 pounds as a front-wheel drive.
One size down is the RDX, with all-wheel drive on every grade and a 1,500-pound tow rating. Smaller again is the ADX, built around a 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine making 190 horsepower. It comes with front-wheel drive as standard and offers all-wheel drive. Its three grades are the base ADX, the A-Spec, and the A-Spec with Advance Package.
The Integra is the only one of the four without an SUV body. Its grades run base, A-Spec, A-Spec with the Technology Package, then Type S.
The all-wheel-drive systems are not the same hardware, and the difference is worth a sentence. The MDX and the RDX use Super Handling All-Wheel Drive, which can move power side to side between the two rear wheels as well as front to back. The ADX uses a simpler system Acura calls Intelligent Control All-Wheel Drive. Both send power to the wheels that still have grip, which is what you want on a February morning on a salted road.
In town the pattern is young families, older and denser housing near Main Street, and cars kept for years rather than traded in every few years. What matters to a household like that is room, weather and what a car costs to keep, which points at the RDX and the MDX.
Households at the Geist end of the ZIP shop differently. From about April until the end of October, plenty of vehicles out there are pulling a boat. That points at the MDX with all-wheel drive, the version rated at 5,000 pounds. Whether your own boat and trailer come in under that is worth weighing rather than estimating.
| What the household needs | Which Acura fits |
|---|---|
| Three rows of seats, plus a 5,000-pound tow rating with the towing equipment installed | MDX with all-wheel drive |
| One car for a year-round commute, with all-wheel drive on every version | RDX |
| The smallest of the three SUVs, as a first Acura or a second car in the house | ADX |
| Something that is not an SUV at all | Integra |
The ADX sits with the other two SUVs on the new Acura SUVs page. If the model is already settled, there are separate pages for the MDX, the RDX and the Integra.
Hancock County is a driving county. The typical commute runs about 28 minutes, around nine in ten commuters drive to work, and of those who drive, roughly six in ten leave the county to get there. There are no buses or trains to fall back on, so a car stuck in the shop costs somebody a large part of their day.
Winter sets the service calendar. Central Indiana averages about 22 inches of snow in a season, with the first snow usually landing in the back half of November and the last near the end of March. The roads are salted through those months, so the underside of the vehicle stays wet and gritty for a third of the year. Brakes and suspension parts take the worst of it, and none of that is visible from where you sit.
At our store, routine maintenance is booked as Accelerated Service, and the appointment is designed to be finished within 60 minutes. Several Acura-trained technicians work on the car at once rather than passing it along, which is where the hour comes from, and Acura's own parts and fluids go in throughout. A multi-point inspection, meaning a standard look over the car's main systems, happens inside that same visit rather than costing you a second appointment. When the drive over and back already takes a chunk out of the day, an hour with us is a number you can plan around.
That covers the scheduled work. Anything that has to be diagnosed first, such as a warning light, a noise, or something that has stopped working, goes to our service center, where we find the fault and call you with a price before any work starts, and tires have a desk of their own at the tire center. All three are at the same address. Ask about a loaner car when you book, and note that we open before and close after a standard working day, so an early drop-off from Fortville works.
The warm half of the year asks for different things. Cruise-in season runs from early spring into late fall, and boating season at Geist runs roughly April into October, so for most of the warm months both are going at once. A car headed for Main Street is worth washing underneath as well as over the top, because the underside is where a winter of road salt collects. Toward Geist the jobs are mechanical: have the trailer wiring checked, since it has not been asked to do anything since October; have the brake controller tested, the box that works a trailer's own brakes; and have the tire pressures reset, because they were last set when the car was running empty. March is an easier time to book any of that than the first warm Saturday of the year, when everyone else has had the same idea.
People keep their cars a long time in Fortville, so a trade-in arriving from here has usually been owned for years, and guesswork is a poor way to price one. Our trade tool gives you an online estimate of what is in your driveway; the instant cash offer goes a step further and puts a written figure behind it. Either way the number is confirmed once we see the car, and starting online means less to do when you are here. On a car kept ten years or more, how well it was looked after can move the value more than the mileage does, so bring your service records if you have them.
Everything except signing the final paperwork can be done before you come in. You can apply for financing in advance on our Finance Center, turn a price into a monthly figure on the payment calculator, and find out what happens at the end of a lease on the lease-return page. There is one application to fill out, whatever your credit history looks like. One thing that will stop an application in its tracks is a frozen credit file: if you ever froze your credit to protect it from fraud and never lifted the freeze, no lender can see your file. Our Unfreeze Your Credit walkthrough covers exactly that.
If a used car is the better answer, Acura Certified Pre-Owned is the top rung of the used lot: an Acura no more than six model years behind the current one, with 80,000 miles or fewer on it the day you drive it away, that has come through a 182-point inspection of how it runs and how it has held up. What it adds is warranty coverage. The powertrain, meaning the engine, the transmission and the parts that drive the wheels, is covered for 7 years or 100,000 miles on the odometer, counted from the day the car was first sold to anybody, not from the day you sign. Everything else is covered for 2 years, up to that same 100,000-mile mark, starting the day the original 4-year/50,000-mile new-car warranty expires. That second stretch can be partly or entirely used up before you buy: six model years is exactly four years of new-car warranty plus the two years that follow it, so on the oldest cars that qualify it may be gone altogether. Ask us to run the dates on the specific car. Certified cars are listed on our certified pre-owned page.
For a household that expects to keep a car for years, powertrain coverage that runs seven years from the day the car was first sold is the part worth asking about, and the date that matters is that first sale date, not the date on your paperwork. Not every used car we sell is certified, and the ones that are not carry whatever is left of the original factory warranty, which on an older car can be nothing at all. Our wider used inventory takes in every make, because much of it arrived as a trade-in wearing another brand's badge.
Acura offers change from month to month, so whatever is running now, and the conditions attached to it, sit on our specials page.
We are at 3800 E 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240, where 96th meets Keystone Avenue, in the shopping district locals call Keystone at the Crossing. It is about 15 miles from Fortville, and the straightest way over is west along 96th Street. The Marion and Hamilton county line runs along 96th, and the showroom is on the Marion County side of it, at that county's northern edge.
Coming from Fortville usually means crossing out of Hancock County, and none of that crossing changes anything at your address. License plates, registration and the county tax rate that goes with them follow the county you live in, not the county you buy in. A household inside Fortville stays a Hancock County household after the paperwork is signed, and if your address is on the Hamilton or Madison side of the ZIP, the same holds for that county.
Clear Path 465, the rebuild of the I-465 and I-69 interchange, is scheduled to run into late 2026, and work at that scale pushes traffic onto surrounding roads while it lasts. Whether any of it lands on your own route is worth a look at your usual traffic app the morning you head out. Our hours and directions page carries the map and our current sales and service hours.
West, about 15 miles, along 96th Street. The drive ends at 96th and Keystone Avenue, at 3800 E 96th Street. For the directions from your own street, and for how long it is taking with the interchange work going on, our hours and directions page carries the map.
No. Most of the ZIP is Hancock County, but it also takes in part of Hamilton County on the Geist side and reaches into Madison County at its north end. License plates and the county tax rate follow the county your house actually sits in, and the ZIP code settles none of that. Your property tax bill and your vehicle registration both name the county, so check either one. It changes nothing at our end: we sell and service across all of 46040, whichever county your street falls in, for new Acura SUVs, for the Integra and for used vehicles alike.
It depends on the street, not the ZIP code. Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation covers Fortville itself and McCordsville, while part of the Geist end is zoned to Hamilton Southeastern instead, and Geist Elementary is one of its schools. Because the boundary runs between streets rather than around the postal code, the only way to be certain is to call either school corporation with your address. Whichever answer you get, we sell and service to every street in the ZIP, so the next step can be our service center or the new Acura SUVs page.
Four: the MDX, the RDX and the ADX, all SUVs, and the Integra, which is not. The Integra runs from a base version through A-Spec to the performance Type S. All three SUVs are grouped on new Acura SUVs, which is also where you will find the ADX; the MDX, the RDX and the Integra each have a page as well. Which ones are on the lot on a given day changes, so check the listings or call ahead.
All three SUVs can have it, and one of them always does. Every RDX is built with Super Handling All-Wheel Drive. On the MDX it is optional on the two lowest versions, the base MDX and the Technology, and standard on every version above those. The ADX comes with front-wheel drive as standard and offers Intelligent Control All-Wheel Drive. The Integra is front-wheel drive. For a winter commute on salted roads, all-wheel drive is the thing worth deciding before the trim level and the paint color. All three SUVs are lined up on new Acura SUVs, and the RDX keeps listings of its own.
The MDX, and only with all-wheel drive. In that form, with a hitch and wiring installed, it is rated at 5,000 pounds; as a front-wheel drive it is rated at 3,500. Weigh your own boat and trailer loaded rather than guessing, since that is the number the rating has to cover. The RDX is rated at 1,500 pounds, which suits a light utility trailer but rules out most boats. The version-by-version comparison sits on the MDX page, and the hitch and its wiring are worth checking before towing season starts, through our service center.
Yes, and it is all at one address. Scheduled maintenance is booked as Accelerated Service. Anything that has to be diagnosed before it can be priced, such as a warning light or a noise, goes to our service center, and tires worn out by a winter go to the tire center.
It is designed to take 60 minutes or less, and it needs an appointment. Several Acura-trained technicians work on the car at the same time instead of passing it along, Acura's own parts and fluids are used throughout, and the multi-point inspection is folded into the same hour. That is the whole design of Accelerated Service, and it is short enough that waiting for the car is a real option instead of arranging a ride home.
We find the fault first, then call you with what it needs and what it costs before any work starts. If the car has to stay, ask about a loaner when you book. Our doors are open earlier and later than a normal working day, so handing the car over does not have to cost you a morning; the current hours and the service entrance are both on the hours and directions page.
You can, and it is worth starting before you come in. Our trade tool gives you an online estimate and the instant cash offer puts a written figure behind it; either is confirmed once we see the car. If you still owe money on it, the outstanding balance is settled as part of the deal rather than something you have to clear first, and if you owe more than the car is worth, that difference is part of the conversation too. Bring it up when you start the Finance Center application.
All of it except signing the final paperwork, which has to happen here. You can apply in advance on our Finance Center page, on one application whatever your credit history, and work out the monthly figure on the payment calculator, and read up on ending a lease on the lease-return page. If your credit file is frozen, the freeze has to be lifted before a lender can see it, and the Unfreeze Your Credit walkthrough takes you through that.
An inspection, plus Acura warranty coverage on top of whatever the car has left. To qualify at all, the car has to be no more than six model years behind the current one, show 80,000 miles or fewer the day you take it, and come through the 182-point inspection. After that, the powertrain (engine, transmission and the parts that drive the wheels) is covered for 7 years or 100,000 miles on the odometer, counted from the day the car was first sold to anybody. Everything else is covered for 2 years up to that same 100,000 miles, starting the day the original 4-year/50,000-mile new-car warranty expires, which on an older car may already have happened, and on a car at the six-year limit will have run out entirely. Ask us to run the dates on the specific car; the certified cars in stock now are on our certified pre-owned listings.
Not at all. Most of the used cars arrive as somebody's trade-in, and people around here drive all makes, so plenty of those cars wear a different badge. The used cars ready for sale are listed in our used inventory, with the certified Acuras alongside.
On our specials page, each one shown with the conditions that go with it. What is listed there changes regularly, so check that page before you count on any particular offer.
