0-60 in 10 seconds...using the old "run over a guy's foot at the start" technique, of course.

lol guy shutting the hood almost lost some fingers & toes

@modelerrrrr

4 жыл бұрын

most replayed section of the video lol

@ahmedqasim7761

4 жыл бұрын

paul rogers 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Bronkosauras

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Surely got some broken toes there. lol

I had an '85 Conquest for a few months, it was a good car. 0-60 in 10secs may seem slow in this days, but it was fast in the 80s. I like retro reviews. They remind me the good and bad cars from those years

@cordiasr7021

6 жыл бұрын

Jorge Tamacas early 80s*

@heinzkitzvelvet

5 жыл бұрын

I miss the 80's so much. From the bad hair to the bad clothes to the bad music. It was awesome!!!😂😂

@georgeharleydavidsonrider156

4 жыл бұрын

Heinzkitz Velvet 👍👍👍👍

@Kgio-2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@heinzkitzvelvet it was all good... nothing bad. Bad is today

@Kgio-2112

4 жыл бұрын

@Matthew Caughey right on man. I agree.

I could only imagine what a modern version of the engine that came in this car would perform like. I mean 2.6 liters makes for a fairly large 4 cylinder engine, especially when you realize that it was turbocharged. It would be awesome to see a newer version of this engine running a DOHC head combined with direct injection as well as having some form of variable valve timing MITEC system added to it. I bet such a modernized version of this engine would easily achieve 300 factory rated crankshaft HP without breaking a sweat right off the showroom floor!

This and the '84-'85 Toyota Celica liftback are definitely the most 80's lookin of all the old Japanese sports cars

"Oriental" - Wow, don't hear that much anymore.

@Hot80s

6 жыл бұрын

I guess this train don't stop here anymore

@jeffcuevas5918

5 жыл бұрын

When did oreintal become a bad word?

@johna.4334

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 'Oriental' sounds raaaaacist by today's standards.

@geraldfarr8279

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffcuevas5918 ... Sometime in the '90s

@bradwooldidge6979

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Cuevas it’s “racist” now.

I love the stories my dad tells about how the police would pull him over just to ask what kind of car he was driving when he would drive an 83 Starion he had as a dealer demo.

@4:22 Dudes foot got run over! Ouch!

Fun fact the Galant Lambda/Challenger/Sapporo luxury-oriented sport coupes were made from 1978 and were replaced by the Starion/Conquest in 1983. In 1991 the Starion/Conquest was replaced by the GTO/Stealth/3000GT

@landonbenford8369

2 ай бұрын

According to wikipedia, in 1991 the Conquest was also succeeded by the Plymouth Laser, Eagle Talon, and the Mitsubishi Eclipse. GOD the Laser, Talon, and Conquest were Beautiful cars!!!!!

That stunt at end was really dangerous! Poor guy

@DolleHengst

2 жыл бұрын

If you think that's dangerous you must not have lived in the 80's.

And wow, time flies. When the retro review is retro itself

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

Word

LOL at 4:23 he ran over that guys foot

@glen-ozzstarscars8474

9 жыл бұрын

that's no lol. The lawsuit could have ended the show.

@TimJoseph08031990

9 жыл бұрын

The hood was open, and the driver didn't see the guy closing the hood in front of the car. If it was a heavier vehicle, it would have been a lot worse.

@manthony225

9 жыл бұрын

Driver didn't even stop to see if the guy was ok and to top it off, they left the footage instead of re-shooting.

@tmmurphy

9 жыл бұрын

manthony225 Got dammnit the show must go on!!!!

@chunkychuck

8 жыл бұрын

+jiggahippo To be fair he went when the guy with the walkie talkie signaled him.

I still want this car. Its one of my all time favorite styling. This thing looks bad ass.

@fernandorocha8459

Жыл бұрын

I love this Plymouth Conquest

This is one of my all-time favorite cars. A very underrated classic indeed.

@MrJoshuaAtwood

3 жыл бұрын

Are you fuckin serious? You probably loved it when crack came out back then too, huh?

Ahead of its time like so many other 80's and 90's Japanese cars

My mother bought the very same car in 1984. Dark gray 5 speed Technica package Plymouth Conquest for which she traded in a Toyota Celica for it. I got the car in 1990 and drove it for a couple of years before selling it. It was a great car and never had a single issue with it

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

Was it a Mitsubishi, made in Japan? I fergot

@jonathangodbout6645

3 жыл бұрын

@@monkeywkeys3916 yes

@landonbenford8369

2 ай бұрын

Dude, you're gonna be SO sorry you sold it. ALL cars from the 80's and 90's are actually Rising in value.🧐 Especially 2-door cars since no one hardly makes 'em anymore.

What a blast from the past. My buddy's mom had a 86' Conquest back in the day and boy was it sharp! My mom drove an AW11 MR2 so we would compare them quite frequently. Those were the days!

@viewingaccount9459

6 жыл бұрын

lol "mines" Get R Done!

@mediocreman2

2 жыл бұрын

An 86 foot car? Wow

@richardmorris7063

Жыл бұрын

I guess looks r deceiving!Lol!

That nerd almost got killed when the dude took off towards the end of the video.

"Exhilarating" *0-60 in 10.1 seconds*

@landonbenford8369

2 ай бұрын

Yup!! That was Pretty Fast back then!!!!!😎😎My 1980 Cutlass took like 3 minutes!!

Pretty simple fix I did to my '84, adjust the wastegate and bump the 7psi factory boost to 11-13psi then port the giant intake filter box. Makes it just a wee bit faster and a lot more fun. '84 with 112k original miles and still runs great.

@mykejohnson582

6 жыл бұрын

me too i was just messing around with it (wastegate)and at idle it jump from 7psi to bout 11 and i noticed a deeper throttle response. on a 87 Tsi.

@negativeindustrial

4 жыл бұрын

Myke Johnson You were making boost at idle?

@rocketsmall4547

3 жыл бұрын

if u up the boost do you have to up fuel? or less?

Dag bro, right when dude closed the hood, driver guns it running over dudes foot 😮 @4:23

I always thought the testers were too close to the cars when on the track. They would launch almost without warning, thereby clipping his toes. Funny there wasn't any comment about this during the review and wasn't edited at all.

@mediocreman2

2 жыл бұрын

Because they weren't pansies back then. If you look closely, he doesn't seem to sweat it.

Lmao he couldn't wait to floor it I guess

The Orientals let us down with this one.

Another car I wanted in the worst way back in the day!!!!! I'd love to see the '83 Starion road test. Also, the tests of the Colt GTS & Vista that were parked on the track at 4:19.

I had a friend that had an 87 Chrysler Conquest that was intercooled, rated 175hp. A 5 speed. It was the same 2.6. While it ran pretty good, it's electronic dash never worked right from day 1 and the 2.6 leaked like a sieve. Quick car, nimble, good brakes. We didn't care about mileage back then..

Funny how this pops up in my recommended after watching the Car Wizards video.

It’s hard to believe this was one of my favorite cars in early 80s.

@TeeroyHammermill

4 жыл бұрын

Hell it was cool and modern looking, neat digital dash, pretty fast for it's time. My neighborhood back then was littered with 60's and 70's rust buckets so this would've got mad respect (and most likely stolen). Nothing wrong with liking this car back then.

@Kgio-2112

4 жыл бұрын

Why?

@Kgio-2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@TeeroyHammermill nothing wrong with still liking it. People are strange

@Ithinkiwill66

3 жыл бұрын

I like the digital readout cluster....it looked easy to read, but some of the cars tested on Motorweek were hard to read, when wearing the sunglasses with the cars with digital readout.

@MrJoshuaAtwood

3 жыл бұрын

All that crack going around back in those days made for alot of bad decisions....

I had the turbo with nice leather and the digital stereo would blow the doors off!!! Whitesnake STILL OF THE NIGHT!!! Friends hit the floor.

Here's a Motorweek Retro Review of the Dodge Conquest from 1984.

I had that exact year and color combo. Came in second in an “unauthorized” road rally in South Carolina in 1985 (396 miles in 4hrs 4min) topping out at 136mph.

The Conquest is the only Mitsubishi-built car that has been sold through Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler in the United States under the same name. It's also the only car that I know of that had rear wheel antilock brakes available.

I love retro reviews!!!!

Love it! Would want one with an automatic transmission...

I owned one back in 84 I miss that car it was a fun car in high school

Ahh...the lack of safety in dose days boy o boy😳

I had that exact same car except mine had a leather interior and a woman's voice told you if your door was ajar or if you left your lights on. It seemed faster then my 2016 Camry but according to their test it wasn't. I remember it pushing you into the seat when the turbo kicked in.

What the hell happened at 4:22. That looked scary

Love these reviews of 80s classics. But am I the only person to notice the poor man’s foot get rolled over on the last clip. That had to leave a mark.

Who likes short shorts?!? THEY LIKE SHORT SHORTS!!!

@landonbenford8369

2 ай бұрын

...And knee high socks!! What were we thinking?!?!?😁😆😆

love the foot smash! No retakes in the 80's! Hella unsafe, but we ain't reshooting!

0-60 in an exhilarating 10.1 seconds! LMAO :D

@bryanlawrence7346

7 жыл бұрын

remember that in 1984 that was fairly quick. even ferraris and lambos of the era barely broke the 5 second mark. modern day family sedans would beat old exotic cars to 60mph

Exhilarating is 0-60 in 10 secs:) WOOHOO!

would love to have that Turbo Colt behind it too at the track

Me gusta mucho este canal excelente

“Overzealous Oriental styling” ...try and say that today without being branded

@brennalynnn

3 жыл бұрын

@Ultra CNC but why are you fighting so hard to say that? People wouldn't even get shocked at it, they would just feel depressed that you still say the frase "Oriental"

@Lucille69caddy

3 жыл бұрын

Right? The PC snowfwakes would have a coronary😆

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lucille69caddy In that case, Let's all say it together

@OscillatorCollective

3 жыл бұрын

...or “cancelled” lol🤦‍♀️

@negativeindustrial

2 жыл бұрын

@@brennalynnn It’s “phrase”, genius.

(0-60mph time of 4.1 toes)

I'm going trolling for Conquest with my CR-V.

@Ithinkiwill66

3 жыл бұрын

Bbbhaha!!!

I really like the way the show was written.. Wonder if it's the same ones today?

Driver- hoods up cant go, hoods up cant go hoods up cant go Hood- click Driver- LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO!

that guy at 4:24 played it off with a slight limp .....yet the car didnt even touch him lol

Listening to the beginning explanation of how the Conquest came from the Starion I was just sitting here like "Oh god no... this has got to be a mistake... Chrysler why?!?!"

I liked the body style. To bad Chrysler won't bring it back out with more up to date technology.

Another cool 80s car! 👍

WOOOO #STARQUESTCLUB

@2:27 I find it funny that 10.1 seconds from 0 to 60 is "exhilarating" - but I did like the look of these cars back in the day..

I street raced an '87 Mustang back in those days. Starion/ Conquest were fodder. Your main competition was tweaked Grand Nationals and other stangs with an occasional tweaked Omni GLH giving you a good run. IROC's and TransAms were slugs. Fat and heavy. Vets were too. The king of the 1980's streets was the Ford Mustang! The Buick GN was a close second. I occasionally got in a tangle with some exotics that should have handed my ass to me, but the drivers were the hold back. Money can buy fast, but it wont make you faster if you ain't got the skillz.

I love it ❤

The 2.6L 4-pot sounds huge, thats I-6 country. Im pretty sure BMW pulled out 170 Hp/Tq from a NA 2.5l Inline 6 from the same era.

That quarter mile would have been hilarious if that guy would have TJ Hooker'd over the hood.

didn't these wind up with the box flares from the capri/944?

@EvolutionAutocrosser

4 жыл бұрын

I think they ended up getting box flares around '87?

Chrystler Conquest Tsi was awesome

I hope ill find one one day

I never saw many of these growing up.. Were they popular?

Looks very simliar to Mustangs and especially the Mk2 Supra at the time, another car choked with emission standards

Put a high output 2.2L in it with an intercooler...badass

My neighbor had one of these when I was a kid, I thought it was a cool car at the time.

Starion looks better today. This looks the lower version rather than the performance version

Wait..so removing the fake scoops slowed the car down?

@Ithinkiwill66

3 жыл бұрын

Ironic, eh? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"I would've loved to see how this car would have evolved if still available." Dodge Stealth - Mitsubishi 3000GT - Mitsubishi GTO

@Motorweek

9 жыл бұрын

Good point

@codyclark6267

7 жыл бұрын

Didn't it actually evolve into the Mitsubishi Eclipse/Eagle Talon?

@JackBandicootsBunker

7 жыл бұрын

cody clark​​ Mitsubishi was looking for a Starion successor when developing the 3000GT, with most of the technologies adopted derived from the first two HSR concepts. The Starion and 3000GT were sports cars, aimed at the Supra, RX-7, Fairlady Z, and later Skyline GT-R, NSX and the like. The Eclipse and FTO were different beasts, aiming at the sport coupé market of the Celica, Probe, etc. And were Mitsubishi's re-entry into that market following their previous efforts (Lancer Celeste, Galant FTO).

@codyclark6267

7 жыл бұрын

I stand corrected

@jessepinkman8821

7 жыл бұрын

I always thought the Eclipse was the Starion replacement. Talon TSI was the new Conquest TSI.

If I were a mpoar guy and I had the money I'd get a wide body, drop in a modern 360, and paint it white with blue stripes lol

@tmmurphy

7 жыл бұрын

I get what you're saying but I'd drop in a modded EVO drive train. The 4 cyl would probably fit better. But yeah, white with blue stripes would be great.

Shouldve reviewed the TSI model

colt vista in the back ground at 4:25 after they run over his foot, wonder if they ever did an episode on the rare mini mini vans of the 80s?

@tsukisan6765

7 жыл бұрын

That was not a Colt Vista. It was a regular Colt and probably a Turbo carr too. The Vista was a van.

@tsukisan6765

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I did not see the Vista sitting of to the left. My bad, but you can't blame me.

@mitsubishikid1187

7 жыл бұрын

No problem, the vista Is a cool retro wagon, and vary reliable, my mom still owns one.

@frankez1975

6 жыл бұрын

They probably used it to take that guy to the hospital.

Short shorts and enough ground clearance to compete with modern midsize trucks, that's mid-80's performance.

The rare narrowbody Conquest

What I wouldn’t do for to have this car today...oh, and yeah, I’m adding all those “overzealous oriental styling cues” back...

The Gray Jacquet

That one guy about got ran over 🤣

10.1 to 60mph. And that was considered fast back then. Today, 6 seconds to 60mph can be had by more full size trucks and SUV’s than sedans and smaller cars

I think itd be a cool car to monster tune in 2020...

Man I sure don't miss the 80s

@Loudpedal10

7 жыл бұрын

xr7fan Sure was, 22 YO in 1980.

Got his foot run over. Good thing it can shift its weight from a dead stop.

@mykejohnson582

5 жыл бұрын

yeah and those cars were heavy too.

4:23 Who hired THAT driver?

4:23 Looks like he got his left toes clipped

Starion,Eagle and who knows how many other names?..the best ones had the least American input.

Did he try to kill that guy? 😂

The later Daytona looks very similar.

I`d have to question that 0-60 time. I drove one and it was much faster than that. Were they driving an automatic? Did they not know how to spool up a turbo?

@Ithinkiwill66

3 жыл бұрын

Damn...did you insert a Nitro unit in your's then? 🧐🧐😉😉😁

@darrelpetrie8793

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ithinkiwill66 No nitro but it may have been chipped. We sold it from our dealership. It was used. Very low miles. Like new.

@Ithinkiwill66

3 жыл бұрын

@@darrelpetrie8793 that is awesome! Too bad I was only 4 years old at that time 🤣 I miss the 80's....less worring about the world too....simpler times.

Woof who’s the hottie in short shorts measuring the braking distance??

@johnj8782

2 ай бұрын

Simp

@johnj8782

2 ай бұрын

Simp

@sneakerfreak2002

2 ай бұрын

@@johnj8782 you are simp

1989 was the best Conquest.

I find it odd it does the 1/4 mile is .1 second more than my Ford Escape but does 0-60 in almost two seconds more. Maybe there was something wrong with this car.

Looks like a cross between a foxbody and a 3rd gen camaro.

He ran over Danny Noonan's foot

everyone wanted one of those scoop hoods on the later conquest/starion....i know i did. i had a 88 starion and i tried to find one. this vid says that it made the front look to busy..????

@sndguy01

4 жыл бұрын

HotGritz910 they were on the 1983 starions.

Them shorts look straight out of the Castro....

still prettier than the ugly plastic bubbles they make today

0-60mph in 10.1 seconds! I was expecting it to be in the low to mid 7's

@DavesGenny

7 жыл бұрын

Doobie1975 that came with the second gen. Wider body. More power.

@cordiasr7021

6 жыл бұрын

DavesGenny the USDM widebody they tested later only managed 8.1 or so seconds if you desire low 7s to mid 6s you would have to look at the euro/jdm 2.0Ts or 2.6Ts

in 1987 i was called a Chrystler Conquest . js

@thomasmetivier9856

2 жыл бұрын

Dodge Daytona Pacifica 5 speed aftercooler turbo would get u closer

Awwwww Plymouth RIP 🙏

hey car. ya you car. get in my garage