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The 1980s were a time when car manufactures formed a variety of strategic alliances across international boundaries. These alliances were a way of globalising their operations at minimum risk, and also in most cases of reducing expenditure on development. The alliance between Mitsubishi in Japan and Dodge in the USA was in some ways typical. The Chrysler Corporation had started using Mitsubishi engines in some of its projects many years earlier, and from 1984 it began to sell the Mitsubishi Starion coupé as its own Conquest, badged variously as Dodge or Plymouth (and later as plain Chrysler). It was a great success, and so the alliance continued in the 1990s when the Mitsubishi 3000GT appeared wearing Dodge badges and the evocative name of Stealth (borrowed, of course, from the USAF's Stealth bomber). By this stage, Mitsubishi had demonstrated that it was fully capable of competing alongside the longer-established super-coupe builders, and the sleek 3000GT boasted 0-60 mph times of under six seconds straight out of the box. Even today, the performance of those first models is enough to make the owners of lesser machinery sit up and take notice. And that is why the whole range of 3000GT and Stealth models continues to attract enthusiast attention. Models covered: 3000GT, Stealth R/T, 3000GT VR-4, Stealth R/T turbo, Stealth ES & 3000GT Spyder VR-4. 140 pages, 400 illus.