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

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

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 It would be awesome to see a newer version of this engine running a DOHC head combined with direct injection as well as having some form of variable valve timing MITEC system added to it.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

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.

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

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

That stunt at end was really dangerous! Poor guy

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

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

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

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

LOL at 4:23 he ran over that guys foot

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!

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

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

"Exhilarating" *0-60 in 10.1 seconds*

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.

Lmao he couldn't wait to floor it I guess

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.

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.

The Orientals let us down with this one.

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

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..

I love retro reviews!!!!

Me gusta mucho este canal excelente

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?!?!"

(0-60mph time of 4.1 toes)

Another cool 80s car! 👍

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

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

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

WOOOO #STARQUESTCLUB

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.

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

I love it ❤

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

@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..

Chrystler Conquest Tsi was awesome

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

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

I hope ill find one one day

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...

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

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

The Gray Jacquet

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

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?

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

Man I sure don't miss the 80s

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`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?

Shouldve reviewed the TSI model

The later Daytona looks very similar.

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

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

4:23 Who hired THAT driver?

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.

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

4:23 Looks like he got his left toes clipped

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

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

1989 was the best Conquest.

Better looking than Starion.

still prettier than the ugly plastic bubbles they make today

Did he try to kill that guy? 😂

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..????

He ran over Danny Noonan's foot

It's a CHRYSLER Conquest folks lol

hey car. ya you car. get in my garage

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

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

I fell in love with the look ...till I tried to get into it....