. the 4 speed transmission shifts crisply and the suspension is well soon and the early sixty's the b.m.w. $1500.00 even give portia's a run for their money top tickets aristo says it might not sound like much today but at the time eking 80 horsepower out of 4 cylinders frighten the competition porsches base model 356 had just 60 horsepower a german weekly called the 1500 a sprinter and a touch and christophe thinks that's an apt description of this one and a half liter engine is very responsive when it 4500 r.p.m. is pretty loud and sounds labored like the b.m.w. already have improvements in the works. later new class models like the b.m.w. 2000 t.i.i. with up to 2 leaders of capacity and $130.00 horsepower drivers such as hoover