- So you want to get rid of your depression? No.
So you want a geometric
Why are we still asking about this?
So you want a Porsche 944, no you don't,
you don't trust me you don't.
You're not even a 924, okay.
All right okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
there is one in there that actually felt pretty good
when it came down to people wanting another
so you want okay.
It's a car that probably nobody actually knows about,
which is gonna make me happy, all right.
There's a few cars out there in this world
that just make you feel some sort of way,
especially in the 80s
probably because there's so many drugs,
but the 911s were trying to kill you.
The Comaros we're trying
to only get you to cut the sides of your hair,
and the Lamborghini we're just like
parallelograms,
and while the rest of the world was getting
all the attention in the world,
there was a car that got just about next to I don't know,
maybe a little less than none, all right.
A car that maybe if you're over the age of 30,
you would probably remember
and you're already in the comments getting angry
at the fact that I just told you that nobody knows this car.
Okay, a car that people probably wish we didn't talk about
because it could appreciate in value
and I hope it actually does.
A car that went toe to toe in RX-7s
and 300 ZXs is of the time.
I'm Alex, Alex at fine Instagram,
and today we're gonna be talking about a car
that you likely never heard before, until now.
A car that you're willing to watch 10 minutes about
and then likely forget after you go back to making
a hotdog with a bread bun
because you don't have enough money.
We forgot to buy the bread buns
just the thing that happens
you just have to fold it in there, put a slice of cheese
that be ready to go with some craft singles.
Alright ladies and gentlemen,
today we're gonna be talking about you wanting to own
a Mitsubishi Starion slash conquest,
slash star quest.
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The Mitsubishi Starion was
a two-door wrap Porsche 924.
Kidding, all right,
is a turbocharged four cylinder
that was manufactured by Mitsubishi from 1982 to 1989.
The 80s were an interesting time,
because it was just before the pre boom
of the Japanese market.
Now you may know the Mitsubishi Starion
but some of us know it as the Chrysler conquest.
Yee Ha, all right.
Chrysler used to do that sort of stuff.
It's the whole DSM bridging that happened in the 90s.
It's pretty exciting time
and if you believe in astrological symbols and all that
there's some bonus points for you.
The Starion name comes from a contraction
of the star of Arion,
which refers to the mythical horse arion
in the sky next to the moon.
Yee Ha times two.
We saw this re-badge car
pretty much happen all throughout the 80s and 90s,
especially with Mitsubishi Dodge and Plymouth
because it just happened across the board to import the cars
made them both narrow body and wide body.
The car was quite the actual looker.
It had a non-inter cooled lower horsepower variant
for the narrow body
and a high performance pay-to-play version,
which had the inter cooled and
that was the wide body essentially,
these ones got the title of different variants
of either an ESIR
and you have the other one that had the TSI,
essentially, depending on what country you were in,
was dependent upon how the trim determination
was there for you.
All you pretty much had to remember is that
as they added numbers or letters
because everybody gets excited with acronyms,
especially in the automotive culture, it just got better.
But no matter the badge,
they were all built at the same assembly line in Japan
Mitsubishi tried its damness
to compete with big names with it.
In the 80s,
Mitsubishi was actually doing a fairly good job at it
and when it initially came out, it did pretty well.
The ESIR wide body turbo variants
that came out in the later years
did pack a little bit of a punch
and the Mitsubishi starion was just a little bit too late,
which is why only like 12 people know about it sure.
It had a turbocharger and sure
it had an inter cooler and eventually, sure,
it had a limited slip differential
but it was battling these weird things
like the EPA restrictions on the cars,
especially the performance variance,
or just getting really strict
and it had to go through new exhaust systems,
new intake systems and 17 catalytic converters
and it just started getting a little tough.
That on top of the fact that the importation laws
on lead gasoline for engines
continue to put pressure on this Japanese 924.
It had the iconic two-liter 4G-63.
It had McPherson struts, it had disc brakes, and,
and just to touch,
just a touch more reliable than its European counterparts.
You see, Mitsubishi was King or Queen
of turbocharging cars back in the day.
It's pretty much what they did
and they did it really well.
It's what they were known for
that paired with the 4G-63,
which at the time was pretty revolutionary
through its use a twin balance shaft
and electronic fuel injection,
it probably should have won,
like, just should have, all right.
The cars battle between emissions,
the heavy Japanese competition doing the market boom
of the 90s which is essentially
why you see the FDR 7s and the 3000 GTs
and the skylines, and all those cars,
just rocketing in terms of technology,
and the fact that Mitsubishi eventually wanted
to put their hope into a different coupe model,
Eclipse talon dodge all that stuff.
And you pretty much had the fact
that the sand just wasn't gonna stay alive.
They pretty much sacrificed it
just happened sometimes.
The car didn't get the follow up tech
it needed to survive the competition
and by the time the middle to late 80s came about,
people started to see that the Starion wasn't gonna
stay alive for very long
and the interest in the car would eventually die.
The Starion would be a car I would run rallies
and win all right race, and it would win.
It had a fake hood scoop sure, all right
but it's titles are nothing to goof about, all right.
It just didn't last long enough for any of us to see it
because it didn't cross into the booming 90s.
But we're not here to talk about you wanting
to own one of these bad boys.
We're here to talk about what it's like to actually own
one of these Japanese lean slick fighting machines
that still doesn't have an appreciation tax yet.
Thank God, all right.
So you want a Mitsubishi Starion,
or any of the nine different million trend types
of that specific car.
Well set down your DSM argument
pick up your favorite rust-oleum
because we're about to talk about what it's like
to actually own one of these.
The Mitsubishi Starion is a car
that was essentially just lost in the sauce.
Ask many people and they have no idea or clue
what they're actually looking at,
and that's what makes them so underappreciated
and awesome, all right.
Their pinnacle 80s design, all right.
That feature too many hard lines and aggressive front ends
that make you think somebody just ended up retrofitting
an FC-RX7 turbo hood to a Mitsubishi
because it just looked like fun
and then you find out, no they actually came with that hood
and you're like, that's sweet.
We should bring back hood scoops.
Like that should be a thing.
Not only did the car do that,
but it was also just funky and fun.
You got electronic seat belts,
how much more 80s can you get, all right?
Since you have the McPherson,
you can play around with the suspension a bit
with coil overs, or even air
if you're feeling a little bit feisty,
but most importantly, you have an older 4G-63 engine
that you can do just about anything with
and you know, anybody that has a 4G-63 engine,
those things are literally gold,
they are the best thing you could possibly imagine,
even though they have a tendency to not always be running.
Is it reliable?
Is it worth modifying?
I don't know, I'm not sure about that.
But would it be fun to throw it on the ground
and scream around
and listening to some night call by Kavinsky?
Yes, it wouldn't be
because it's an 80s coupe that has shapes on it, all right.
Literally you could put that thing in geometry class
and you would learn about all the different types of shapes
that you would need to know as a nine year old, all right.
The Starion belongs in coil overs.
Most notably BCs, BC literally has everything.
I don't know how. I don't know why, but they do, all right.
Wheels, you want to want to keep to the smaller stuff,
just simply because the older style cars
usually work better with smaller wheels.
So you're probably looking at things like work NK or Konig
for the market, for wheels and tires,
you're going to end up going with a meteor setup
usually staggered with a 225245
to fill those massive wheel wells.
It's just kinda weird
how they did the wheel wells back in the day,
throw some money at the motor
and pray you don't get the DSM disease
and you're pretty much set to have a car
that not many people know about care about
or even would want to own.
But if it's at a car show or a track day
or add an auto show or add an HPD,
a lot of people are gonna ask you what, what it is.
It's what makes them affordable.
It's what makes them unique.
I mean, you can park it next to a marker
and then you and your car buddies
can talk about how unique and rare your cars are.
Even though likely both of you
are gonna have the cars on jack stands at the car show.
The Mitsubishi Starion laid the framework
for what would inevitably be the launch
of the Talon Eagle Eclipse
and helped actually found the interest
in the Japanese forced induction Mitsubishi market overseas
through Chrysler, Dodge and of course, Mitsubishi itself
and the partnership that those three companies had together
continue to allow the importation alliance
of this odd Japanese sports car.
And then it built it into the cool
that we know and love today,
it'd become one of the cars that laid it down
for the 90s boom, baby.
The Starion was not one of those cars
that made the list of the 90s
and it's not when you're going
to hear many people talk about,
but it was the one that propelled those cars
to the success that we now know and love.
We don't see many of them, but we probably should,
whether it's a conquest or starion
whatever variant that you'd like to see it
as the world needs more unreliable,
modified 80s cars that smell like old cigars
and poor perfume.
That's all I'm saying.
What do you think about the mystery starion.
Let us know in the comment section below
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or suspension.
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Of course I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
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