Fifteen horsepower in a car is hardly anything to get excited about, even if it only has 550kg to lug around. But these were the keys stats of BMW’s first car, the 3/15. If it looks familiar to our British readers, that’s because, essentially, the car was an Austin 7.
After the jump you can see a short clip from BMW’s YouTube channel, which gives a bit more history on the “Dixi”. To be fair, the clip is a bit slow moving, but I did get a bit of a kick out of the footage showing a 3/15 blasting up the Stelvio Pass. A classic driving road, to be sure, but perhaps a car with such modest performance capabilities is not the first that would come to mind if one could pick any from history to tackle the classic climbing route.