What a beauty of a car, not to mention the roar of that 4g63 engine. Cars like the Eagle Talon, Mitsubishi Eclipse and a few others are the reason why i have a soft spot towards 90's cars, they have a special charm that hasn't been able to be replicated in today's cars.
There were a lot of 1st gen Talons, Eclipses and even the occasional Plymouth Laser in my high school parking lot. The 2nd gens were still too pricey when I was in school. Now you rarely see any of these on the road anymore.
i have a 1990 eclipse GSX that’s immaculate! i love seeing DSMs getting more and more popular lately! the prices are going up too which is dope! buy them now because sooner or later they will be $10,000 all day! i picked mine up for $6000 with all the cool dealership paperwork from 1989 and maintenance history! seen cars like mine go got $10,000-$15,000 this year! love to see it!
Thank you so much for the review buddy! You are always such a pleasure and after watching the video all you did was make me fall in love with my Talon again! I appreciate and keep up that amazing videos!
I had a 90 laser rs turbo and it was well built so I know the pure pleasure you get with that car. A nice clean repaint with straight 403 black will make that car shine like it deserves.
Your car is fking cool! Give it a new paint job and steering cover (and radio) and keep this beast on the road! Surely gonna take value, these were sooooo cool!
Same here man it's also one of my dream cars as well. I pretty much blame NFS Underground for making me love the car so damn much since my childhood, to this day i haven't given up in owning a second generation Eclipse. Shame that nowadays is hard to find one as OEM and as clean as possible which i always try to aim for.
What a treat this car is! My mom and aunt drove these in college, and she forwarded me one for sale saying I should try it. For all the times that I wasn't broke down on the side of the road (has required some TLC), it has never failed any task that I put it to. Pavement, gravel, snow, ice, having a buck thrown into your lane (oops), this thing drives. So capable and cute to boot! I've named mine Tiffany the Talon. I've been spoiled and I struggle to find newer cars that mirror it's features and energy. Ty for the video! (Lol that this unit's AC isn't working so good either)
Had a friend with one he upgraded the turbos and did a shit load of other upgrades too it! 7 months later he totalled it and him self a bit…. Has screws and rods in his right leg busted up his elbow n got a concussion after that accident. Still till this has no regrets lol even after loosing like 6k in the car lol he loved the freaking thing
My mom's best friend had one for along time. She was also my babysitter so I remember riding in that car quite a bit. As a kid I thought it was cool..still do.
I think the 1990’s is an unrecognised golden era for USA car brand choice akin to the 1950’s. Stirling, Merkur, Eagle, Saturn & of course new Japanese import brands like Lexus, Infiniti & Legend. Meanwhile brands like Pontiac, Oldsmobile & Mercury were still around. A saturated market that perhaps inevitably consolidated in the 2000’s.
I grew up more with early 2000s cars, but the 90s car influence was still going. I just got myself a Saturn and boy is it fun to drive. Needs a rear trailing arm replacement, but other than that and some fixes so that I can pass emissions next year, the car has been a joy to maintain. I’ll have to see how much more to work while I try to keep driving off and on throughout the year.
We had a 92 Eagle Talon Turbo that we totally loved. Got my last speeding ticket in that car - 82 in 55 zone! I sometimes had a lead foot back then. Wish we had one now.
It’s not actually a “rebranded” car; if you look in the drivers for jamb or on the fire wall you’ll find a ‘DSM’ tag. This stands for Diamond Star motors which means it was a joint venture between the two (Diamond=Mitsubishi Star=Chrysler). Both males had their own tweaks to the car naturally.
I had a 1995 Eclipse GS-T. Same car basically. Same engine, same everything basically. 210 HP. I loved that car!! Too bad I totaled it 😂😂 I was fine so was my buddy in the passenger seat. We ended up in a ditch, I was driving too fast in the rain
Awesome car. Same thing just FWD. I had a 95 Prelude VTEC back in the day. Loved it. So much so, I bought one 2yrs ago, again lol. But man, back in the day I was always a little closer jealous of these gen DSMs. They were mean. I dated a girl in HS with a Talon TSi Gen1. It would rip.💪✌️
My 1997 Jeep ZJ is the TSi trim level. And no it is NOT turboed. Pretty sure it was a callback to the sporty trim from these eagles. I’ve heard people say it stands for “turbo sport intercooled” but my personal belief is that it stands for “t-case swap imminent” where I’ve got the NP249 quadratrac case that has a viscous coupler known to go bad under stress
I've had 4; '91 AWD tsi Laser, '91 NA Laser, '91 Stealth, '95 Eclipse (that one had the same body kit as the one on the first F&F movie except it was pewter, and had PA state legal tints, lowered height and 2.5" chrome cat-back exhaust). As a female I've had a lot of fun "pressure testing " the cars we modded and upgraded after driving them as a daily driver for a month before offering cars for sale. We did 3000gt's also. We even turned a Honda del sol!
Growing up in the 90s. These cars were already super rare up here in Canada. There was a guy in my neighborhood with a non AWD Talon. The one with the oem aggressive front bumper. That thing always looked menacing.
it needs a tune........my 666hp spools faster than that and hits way harder. Drove a verified 500hp eagle with little or no lag... Also had a 95 eagle tsi....stock ...feels like my 2018 Honda.. all low end and response.....I will take turbo lag over no HP any day....... Suggest you goto to DSM forums ...400hp should not have any lag...
if he freshened up the paint a little and replace a few worn parts here and there that car would almost be perfect! it only has 61k miles on it. i have a 108k mile 94 f150 4x4 it need some cosmetic work but it runs and drives perfect!
love the video I will say Eagle was never meant to compete with Saturn Eagle was a mid level brand between chrysler and Dodge. the goal was to attract buyers of European brands because Chrysler did a study and found out 70% of Jeep owners had a mid range or high end European brand car sitting next to a Jeep product in the garage. Chrysler wanted Eagle to get some of that market share with cars like the Eagle Premier eagle vision the Eagle summit even tho that was an economy car it had nicer standard features for the time but it was a lazy attempt at best Chrysler just wanted the Jeep brand and didn't care about Eagle or anything AMC other then the Jeep name
Chrysler briefly tried importing midsize and large Renaults (because of AMC's partnership) as Eagles with the thought that Euro = luxury. Chrysler wanted the Jeep YJ Wrangler (cheap to build), XJ Cherokee (cash cow), ancient SJ Wagoneer (long since paid off, almost pure profit), and the in-development ZJ Grand Cherokee (massive cash cow). That they got the legendary AMC straight 6 was a bonus. I wish AMC had been able to survive but it just wasn't feasible.
I wish there would have been a dodge variant dsm. Like a awd turbo first gen avenger. Not the stealth. Technically it was imported. The avenger Technically is a dsm built car. But never awd turbo. About 15 years out of high school I had a gsx 2nd gen with an avenger bumper on it. Goofy glad there's no pictures haha.
An interesting concept, making a brand purely of rebadged cars. It didn't make much sense, especially when you can just get the car it's based off of. Chrysler only wanted Jeep from AMC but I have to give them credit for trying to make Eagle into a brand. I think Daihatsu gave the US a shot in the early 90s too with the Charade subcompact hatchback and the Rocky mini-SUV. Good luck finding one of those or a Renault-based Eagle. I saw an Eclipse of this generation from behind this morning and I have to say, I don't think they're all that attractive. Maybe it's the squat proportions, maybe it's because I'm so used to seeing them as barely running beaters. I have to give the carmakers of the 90s credit for making cheap sporty coupes.
The radios in the 90s looked ugly. Many buttons. Every car had analog buttons differently. When aftermarket radios came in it was a life saver. We could use aux cables and easier to program stations and took out the tape player that was outdated.
The engine is reliable. Their reputation for being unreliable comes from all the people who try to make 600hp out of em 😂 left stock, they are reliable
i didn't know Eagle existed, nor they sold rebadged cars from other brands. my sister is a car enthusiast too, and knows a lot about Renault 21. she told me it was imported to the US, but i never knew more. it was sold as the Eagle Medallion (or Renault Medallion) in the late 80s here's a video about the Eagle Medallionit, if you're curious ruclips.net/video/JWHYWtxp7pw/видео.html
I always have to disagree with you about stereo quality, mainly because its an issue of design, that is an infinity sound system, it was engineered specifically to that vehicle as most sound systems are for most of the cars you review, often times an aftermarket system is a step back in quality, but only because someone wants what they perceive as "better tech" this is a fallacy in thinking.
Just so yall know eclipse are American cars. Only thing jdm that dsm has is the evo engine. But the rest of the car is America. Japan never had the eclipse nor dsm.😂
What a beauty of a car, not to mention the roar of that 4g63 engine. Cars like the Eagle Talon, Mitsubishi Eclipse and a few others are the reason why i have a soft spot towards 90's cars, they have a special charm that hasn't been able to be replicated in today's cars.
I wholeheartedly agree.
There were a lot of 1st gen Talons, Eclipses and even the occasional Plymouth Laser in my high school parking lot. The 2nd gens were still too pricey when I was in school. Now you rarely see any of these on the road anymore.
Your reaction to the speed is so wholesome. Made me happy. Nice job.
i have a 1990 eclipse GSX that’s immaculate! i love seeing DSMs getting more and more popular lately! the prices are going up too which is dope! buy them now because sooner or later they will be $10,000 all day! i picked mine up for $6000 with all the cool dealership paperwork from 1989 and maintenance history! seen cars like mine go got $10,000-$15,000 this year! love to see it!
Thank you so much for the review buddy! You are always such a pleasure and after watching the video all you did was make me fall in love with my Talon again! I appreciate and keep up that amazing videos!
I had a 90 laser rs turbo and it was well built so I know the pure pleasure you get with that car. A nice clean repaint with straight 403 black will make that car shine like it deserves.
Your car is fking cool! Give it a new paint job and steering cover (and radio) and keep this beast on the road! Surely gonna take value, these were sooooo cool!
Your excitement while driving this made me smile! Love your videos.
the 2nd gen dsm cars are one of my absolute dream cars, both the bubble styling and the power of them just make them so attractive to me
Same here man it's also one of my dream cars as well. I pretty much blame NFS Underground for making me love the car so damn much since my childhood, to this day i haven't given up in owning a second generation Eclipse. Shame that nowadays is hard to find one as OEM and as clean as possible which i always try to aim for.
What a treat this car is! My mom and aunt drove these in college, and she forwarded me one for sale saying I should try it. For all the times that I wasn't broke down on the side of the road (has required some TLC), it has never failed any task that I put it to. Pavement, gravel, snow, ice, having a buck thrown into your lane (oops), this thing drives. So capable and cute to boot! I've named mine Tiffany the Talon. I've been spoiled and I struggle to find newer cars that mirror it's features and energy. Ty for the video!
(Lol that this unit's AC isn't working so good either)
Never clicked on a video faster.
The 80s/90s was a special era. I've always wanted a car from that time with pop up headlights like the first Integra. One day I'll get it
Had a friend with one he upgraded the turbos and did a shit load of other upgrades too it! 7 months later he totalled it and him self a bit…. Has screws and rods in his right leg busted up his elbow n got a concussion after that accident. Still till this has no regrets lol even after loosing like 6k in the car lol he loved the freaking thing
My mom's best friend had one for along time. She was also my babysitter so I remember riding in that car quite a bit. As a kid I thought it was cool..still do.
Driving this in Forza Motorsport 2 was how Iearned to love cars.
Didn't even mention the AUX input in the stock stereo!
I love seeing more all wheel drive cars on the channel
I think the 1990’s is an unrecognised golden era for USA car brand choice akin to the 1950’s. Stirling, Merkur, Eagle, Saturn & of course new Japanese import brands like Lexus, Infiniti & Legend. Meanwhile brands like Pontiac, Oldsmobile & Mercury were still around. A saturated market that perhaps inevitably consolidated in the 2000’s.
I grew up more with early 2000s cars, but the 90s car influence was still going. I just got myself a Saturn and boy is it fun to drive. Needs a rear trailing arm replacement, but other than that and some fixes so that I can pass emissions next year, the car has been a joy to maintain. I’ll have to see how much more to work while I try to keep driving off and on throughout the year.
We had a 92 Eagle Talon Turbo that we totally loved. Got my last speeding ticket in that car - 82 in 55 zone! I sometimes had a lead foot back then. Wish we had one now.
You wouldn't change out that radio. That's a gorgeous Infiniti unit with equalizer and - *gasp* - an aux port! On a stock radio from the mid-90s!
It’s not actually a “rebranded” car; if you look in the drivers for jamb or on the fire wall you’ll find a ‘DSM’ tag. This stands for Diamond Star motors which means it was a joint venture between the two (Diamond=Mitsubishi Star=Chrysler). Both males had their own tweaks to the car naturally.
I had an Eagle Talon tis awd! Note the speedometer mph to 170! Loved it!
One of the best cars I've ever owned from new(1996, white body black top). But the TSI came in 2 wheel drive, and AWD.
I graduated in 95'. These were everywhere.
These were impressive cars. I was never a fan of smaller imports, but these could hang with a Camaro Z28 of the day and looked great
Nothing like an old DSM ❤ When it's working lol
I’ve toured the DSM plant many times. Such cool cars
I had a 1995 Eclipse GS-T. Same car basically. Same engine, same everything basically. 210 HP. I loved that car!! Too bad I totaled it 😂😂 I was fine so was my buddy in the passenger seat. We ended up in a ditch, I was driving too fast in the rain
Mine was not all wheel drive, and sure as hell didn’t have 400 HP!!
Awesome car. Same thing just FWD. I had a 95 Prelude VTEC back in the day. Loved it. So much so, I bought one 2yrs ago, again lol. But man, back in the day I was always a little closer jealous of these gen DSMs. They were mean. I dated a girl in HS with a Talon TSi Gen1. It would rip.💪✌️
My dad had 1 and bricked it in the process of driving it to get the timing done, the belt snapped.
I love these eagle talons they were the shit! I’ve never drove this specific model. But I have drove 91,93,94 editions.
My 1997 Jeep ZJ is the TSi trim level. And no it is NOT turboed. Pretty sure it was a callback to the sporty trim from these eagles. I’ve heard people say it stands for “turbo sport intercooled” but my personal belief is that it stands for “t-case swap imminent” where I’ve got the NP249 quadratrac case that has a viscous coupler known to go bad under stress
Never underestimate the 4g63t.
I've had 4; '91 AWD tsi Laser, '91 NA Laser, '91 Stealth, '95 Eclipse (that one had the same body kit as the one on the first F&F movie except it was pewter, and had PA state legal tints, lowered height and 2.5" chrome cat-back exhaust). As a female I've had a lot of fun "pressure testing " the cars we modded and upgraded after driving them as a daily driver for a month before offering cars for sale. We did 3000gt's also. We even turned a Honda del sol!
Turboed, not turned
Growing up in the 90s. These cars were already super rare up here in Canada. There was a guy in my neighborhood with a non AWD Talon. The one with the oem aggressive front bumper. That thing always looked menacing.
lol my eagle talon fell apart after 9 years. oh well, loved the 90;s
I've got a 95 TSi AWD I've owned since new , its currently sitting in my garage waiting for spring, I dont even drive it in the rain
Me as well cant wait for summer and i also dont drive mine in the rain
Always love the obligatory XJ shot.
UNDERRATED CARS
Huh, I've always come across the opposite, the ones that over rate them.
it needs a tune........my 666hp spools faster than that and hits way harder. Drove a verified 500hp eagle with little or no lag...
Also had a 95 eagle tsi....stock ...feels like my 2018 Honda.. all low end and response.....I will take turbo lag over no HP any day.......
Suggest you goto to DSM forums ...400hp should not have any lag...
When you gonna do the mazda Mellenia supercharged was one of my fav cars
Selling my 1999 Eclipse is something I'll regret for the rest of my life. In Canada they are very rare, mine was from the US and I loved that car.
Ive got a 1995 talon tsi. Shes a beauty. Sadly for the longest time its had some problems, super expensive to fix. But im keeping it foreverrrr
@@Jordiskyehow hard is it for you to find parts and what shop do you take it to ? Thinking of getting one same gear
4:24 There's a modern Chrysler logo silhouette in the airbag perforation line. So that's where they got the winged logo from!
(yes, I'm joking)
I’ve always loved the DSM cars (the Eclipse and Talon in particular). It’s such a shame that nice ones are so hard to track down.
Needs an anti lag system or CO2 intercooler sprayer, which is what I have on my 1998 2nd gen Talon
So sick!
I love DSMs I’ve owned 3
if he freshened up the paint a little and replace a few worn parts here and there that car would almost be perfect! it only has 61k miles on it. i have a 108k mile 94 f150 4x4 it need some cosmetic work but it runs and drives perfect!
love the video I will say Eagle was never meant to compete with Saturn Eagle was a mid level brand between chrysler and Dodge. the goal was to attract buyers of European brands because Chrysler did a study and found out 70% of Jeep owners had a mid range or high end European brand car sitting next to a Jeep product in the garage. Chrysler wanted Eagle to get some of that market share with cars like the Eagle Premier eagle vision the Eagle summit even tho that was an economy car it had nicer standard features for the time but it was a lazy attempt at best Chrysler just wanted the Jeep brand and didn't care about Eagle or anything AMC other then the Jeep name
Chrysler briefly tried importing midsize and large Renaults (because of AMC's partnership) as Eagles with the thought that Euro = luxury. Chrysler wanted the Jeep YJ Wrangler (cheap to build), XJ Cherokee (cash cow), ancient SJ Wagoneer (long since paid off, almost pure profit), and the in-development ZJ Grand Cherokee (massive cash cow). That they got the legendary AMC straight 6 was a bonus. I wish AMC had been able to survive but it just wasn't feasible.
Dude, I’m loving your undershifting probably by 3000 RPMs😂 Holy fuck man that thing Should be sideways or on fire😅
I wish there would have been a dodge variant dsm. Like a awd turbo first gen avenger. Not the stealth. Technically it was imported. The avenger Technically is a dsm built car. But never awd turbo. About 15 years out of high school I had a gsx 2nd gen with an avenger bumper on it. Goofy glad there's no pictures haha.
Try to drive an Eagle Premiere if you can. It was their luxury car of the 80's and early 90's.
I had a 96 esi. I miss that car lol!
What wheels and suspensions does this have? Looks sick
Evo 10 wheels with BC coilovers
@@franciscoherrera5037 You're awesome! Thanks!!
It made me so sad to see rhese cars all over in junkyards
An interesting concept, making a brand purely of rebadged cars. It didn't make much sense, especially when you can just get the car it's based off of. Chrysler only wanted Jeep from AMC but I have to give them credit for trying to make Eagle into a brand. I think Daihatsu gave the US a shot in the early 90s too with the Charade subcompact hatchback and the Rocky mini-SUV. Good luck finding one of those or a Renault-based Eagle.
I saw an Eclipse of this generation from behind this morning and I have to say, I don't think they're all that attractive. Maybe it's the squat proportions, maybe it's because I'm so used to seeing them as barely running beaters. I have to give the carmakers of the 90s credit for making cheap sporty coupes.
Sorry to nit pick, but the phrase is "for all intents and purposes", not "for all intended purposes"
The 4G63 always sounds good
Also there was the dodge version of the talon and eclipse. The stealth
The stealth was dodge’s version of the 3000GT
There was no dodge version of the 2g, but there was a 1g Plymouth Laser
When he say all 90's radio are bad, what does he mean by that, the controls, the sound?
The radios in the 90s looked ugly. Many buttons. Every car had analog buttons differently. When aftermarket radios came in it was a life saver. We could use aux cables and easier to program stations and took out the tape player that was outdated.
The engine is reliable. Their reputation for being unreliable comes from all the people who try to make 600hp out of em 😂 left stock, they are reliable
If you had an early 4G63T (6bolt) you could reliably push 400+hp with all stock internals.
Somebody with common sense
Great looking car and tasteful mods. Simple and sexy
My Talon has helped me meet a lot of ladies…divorced Middle aged ones. No drama.
Rebadge from mitsubishi?
I have a modified Mitsubishi eclipse GSX with a bit of cf and a hx35 turbo also live in Illinois if you'd like to review
Email me! PradelReviews@gmail.com
i didn't know Eagle existed, nor they sold rebadged cars from other brands.
my sister is a car enthusiast too, and knows a lot about Renault 21. she told me it was imported to the US, but i never knew more. it was sold as the Eagle Medallion (or Renault Medallion) in the late 80s
here's a video about the Eagle Medallionit, if you're curious ruclips.net/video/JWHYWtxp7pw/видео.html
I always have to disagree with you about stereo quality, mainly because its an issue of design, that is an infinity sound system, it was engineered specifically to that vehicle as most sound systems are for most of the cars you review, often times an aftermarket system is a step back in quality, but only because someone wants what they perceive as "better tech" this is a fallacy in thinking.
KROOZ KONTROLL
Dam i miss my 1g so much
hatch is so long that removing it would make the talon a ute
Just so yall know eclipse are American cars. Only thing jdm that dsm has is the evo engine. But the rest of the car is America. Japan never had the eclipse nor dsm.😂
I WOOOD WOOD RATHER TAK THE WAGAN IS WAY BATOR
This car will ruined your day if you paid more than 39K on your garbage car
I had a 1996 tsi it was some garbage
Do you really read at a 3rd grader’s level
Come on now. Not that fast. Lol.
“Omg i almost hit a turtle “… drop a gear and disappear 🫠
Gotta keep the fail bottle sounds from before