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This basic sports car ran in the same configuration from about 1953 - 1958. Borgward was the second largest car company in Germany in the 1950's. They raced part time and with engineers doing the work in their spare time. Yet, the Bremen based part timers built the most sophisticated engine of the time period, an inline four, with a DohcFV layout that was strikingly similar to the one used by Cosworth in their V8 DFV a few years later. Did one inspire the other? Hard to say, but Stirling Moss used the Borgward engine in a Cooper chassis to win the 1959 F2 championship. 160hp out of 1.5 liter engine would be considered exceptional by event today's standards.
Borgward got out of racing directly in 1958, but would have been well set to provide engines for the 1.5 liter F1 era, if the company hadn't been forced into bankruptcy through some shady political maneuvers that brand fans still question today. Ask anyone from Bremen, Germany, what BMW stands for and they'll tell you: Borgward Macht Weiter.
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Borgward got out of racing directly in 1958, but would have been well set to provide engines for the 1.5 liter F1 era, if the company hadn't been forced into bankruptcy through some shady political maneuvers that brand fans still question today. Ask anyone from Bremen, Germany, what BMW stands for and they'll tell you: Borgward Macht Weiter.
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