Why isn't rallye too popular in North America?

because when ever we have an awesome dirt road it gets paved.

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>Chrysler offered Electrojector on the 1958 Chrysler 300D, DeSoto Adventurer, Dodge D-500, and Plymouth Fury, arguably the first series-production cars equipped with an EFI system. It was jointly engineered by Chrysler and Bendix. The early electronic components were not equal to the rigors of underhood service, however, and were too slow to keep up with the demands of "on the fly" engine control. Most of the 35 vehicles originally so equipped were field-retrofitted with 4-barrel carburetors. The Electrojector patents were subsequently sold to Bosch
>The first turbocharged passenger car was the Oldsmobile Jetfire option on the 1962–1963 F85/Cutlass, which used a turbocharger mounted to a 215 cu in (3.52 L) all aluminum V8. Also in 1962, Chevrolet introduced a special run of turbocharged Corvairs, initially called the Monza Spyder (1962–1964) and later renamed the Corsa (1965–1966), which mounted a turbocharger to its air cooled flat six cylinder engine.
>It was invented by American Vernon Gleasman[1] and manufactured by the Gleason Corporation. Torsen is a contraction of Torque-Sensing. TORSEN and TORSEN Traction are registered trademarks of JTEKT Torsen North America Inc (formerly Zexel Corporation, formerly Gleason Power Systems). All Torsen differentials have their origin in the Dual-Drive Differential that was invented and patented by Gleasman in 1958.

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and now all the fast times are set by electric cars/bikes

fucking Sierra Club and their bitching about dust getting on the trees.

>first EFI production car was american
>first turbo production car was american

Technically yes, but I don't think you could consider their very low availability as "production", and quite honestly both would grenade themselves if you asked them nicely.

>and now all the fast times are set by electric cars/bikes
i figured that was going to happen a long time ago since the air is so thin up here and electric vehicles keep getting better.

Newfoundland targa rally

No roads, cars too fat to turn, and there are no cheap used cars to start on. Even a 20 year old car with chassis rust that doesn't meet basic functionality requirements still goes for thousands of dollars.

Like Italian cars are any better...

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