Overview & Reviews

The Jeep/Eagle division was formed in 1988 shortly after Chrysler bought the American Motors Corporation in 1987.

At the time, Detroit brands like Chrysler were trying to fend off increasing sales by import brands with the creation of their own import-style sales divisions. Eagle began with the Renault-influenced products developed for AMC, the Eagle Premier and the Eagle Medallion. The rest of the division's portfolio was filled out by vehicles from Mitsubishi, the Japanese company that had long been Chrysler's partner in the importation of small, fuel-efficient vehicles.

Jeep sales gave some energy to the Eagle division, but once Chrysler broke off the sport-utility brand and made it available to its own dealers as the SUV boom began in the 1990s, the Eagle brand quickly foundered. Chrysler announced the end of the Eagle brand in November 1997 and the last Eagle Talon, a badge-engineered version of the Mitsubishi Eclipse, came off the assembly line shortly thereafter.

User Reviews:

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  way to much fun - 1991 Eagle Talon
  By Steeltwo - August 4 - 2:00 am

  these cars are WAAY to much fun. As stated by another rater of the car. You need to look at the belts every few thousand miles. These arent hondas where you can just let them run and run forever without any maintence. These are moderate maintence cars. But if taken care of, onyl the tranny will fail you. From AWD launches :) to the guy who paid 1500 for fixing the oil leak in his tranny. You could have bough one for that price from RRE that was built to handle the abuse.

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  93 TSI has been good to me - 1993 Eagle Vision
  By Tommart - June 9 - 2:00 am

  My ratings are higher, but I agree with the other comments. Bought the TSI when it was 4 years old with 50K and I now have 141K 7 years later. Ive had problems with A/C (3 times), water pump, catalytic converter, and CD player. Ive replaced the struts, battery, and tires once. Ive had two brakes jobs including rotating rotars. With all this, I dont remember having an 11 year old car with so few maintenance items. I have no plans to sell it. Its still my daily carpool car.

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  Reliable Performance with a Backseat - 1995 Eagle Talon
  By ASchell - May 30 - 2:00 am

  I purchased this car Jan 1 2000. The only problem I ever experienced was the ABS pump froze-up, $950 to replace, and that was at 95k miles. After we had our first child I had no problems with his carseat fitting in the rear seats, which was great. Turbo power is great for passing on the interstate!

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  Quick Response and handling - 1995 Eagle Talon
  By cmoore - May 16 - 2:00 am

  I found this car to be much quicker than I had expected. Fuel economy is great and the turbo is fun.

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  94 Eagle Talon DL - 1994 Eagle Talon
  By Jack James Jameson - April 24 - 2:00 am

  I bought a 94 about three years ago (2000) used with 99,000 miles on it. It now has 137,000 and its still running strong. This car has great mechanical reliability, but the electrical system has all kinds of problems. Its fast and sporty . . . a lot of fun to drive. If you want a pretty reliable car with a little bit of extra power, at a good price, pick this.

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  eagle - 1993 Eagle Talon
  By Anthony Keim - April 17 - 2:00 am

  I have driven the vehicle over 136,000miles with only one major problem. I lost the timing belt at 59,000 and it bent my valves. Chrysler came good. I serviced it every 3K and it has treated me great. I still have it.

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  Excellent car - 1994 Eagle Talon
  By Joe1977 - March 11 - 2:00 am

  This is the best car Ive ever had. No repair (execpt brakes). The rust cant grab it. excellent!

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  take care of it - 1991 Eagle Talon
  By DaddysGurl19 - March 5 - 2:00 am

  I got this car with 70k miles and Im not at 100000k. It came fully stocked and the car has been good to me. As long as you check up on your car and TAKE CARE OF IT, it will run just fine. Its great on the highway and very sporty and fun to drive. If you dont let it cool down or warm up in the mornings of course youre going to screw it up, which frankly you deserve. Like any other car you cant just run it into the ground.

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  I loved this car - 1993 Eagle Summit
  By mamasplat - February 28 - 2:00 am

  I bought the car in 1995 off the lot. It had 75000 miles on it when I bought it. I loved this car. never left on the side of the road, and it was never in the shop besides oil changes. The only major thing that I had to replace is the clutch, which doesnt suprise me, when I bought the car, I didnt know how to drive clutch, and I learned in that car, and taught about 3 different people how to drive clutch as well. I swear I would still have the car to this day if I wouldnt have totaled it in an accident. (which that happened three days after I put in the new clutch) ha, ha.

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  Surprised - 1992 Eagle Talon
  By Thebeast431 - February 17 - 2:00 am

  I was told before I bought this car that it is nothing but problems, but then I found out that this is because other DSM owners want you to think this so they can buy it and have a 2nd DSM. I have had mine for a few months now, no problems at all. Not as fast as my Z28, but just as much fun. AWD is fun to play with from a stop or cornering and the turbo noise and power is outstanding. I paid $2300 for mine in Novemeber of 2002 with 66k miles and with a K&N cone filter and aftermarket UICP. Low 13 second car with less than a $800 invested, you cant beat the performance.