Borgward 1500 RS

The Borgward 1500 RS was a racing sports car in the class with up to 1.5 liters displacement, which the Carl F.W. Borgward G. mb H. Automobil- und Motoren-Werke presented at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main in 1951. Until 1958, nine cars of this model were built and continuously developed. The Borgward RS was a somewhat successful car, but despite good performance of its modern fuel injected 4-valve DOHC engine used from 1954 onwards, the chassis was often inferior to the Porsche 550 and Porsche 718, which had better driving characteristics. Borgward stopped racing cars in 1958, supplied 1500cc engines to Formula 2 which became Formula 1 in 1961 when the whole company surprisingly went out of business.