Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) are being developed and are being used for the automotive industry due to their exceptional combination of high strength and ductility, which leads to cost and weight savings and better safety. Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW) is a novel variant of Friction Stir Welding (FSW), which is a solid-state joining process without bulk melting and can be applied in a variety of industries that require spot welding such as aerospace, automotive, marine, nuclear, oil and gas, transportation industries and other industries that need to join metals together, generally using an overlap configuration. The present contribution is an exploratory study to a better understanding of a TRIP 800 friction stir spot welding. Different samples were produced using tool rotational speeds of 1600, 2000 and 2400 rpm and dwell time of 2s and 3s. Besides the metallurgical characterization and microhardness determination, lap-shear and cross-tensile tests were carried out to evaluate the mechanical performance of the joints.