British Motor Corporation does not build many cars like the Austin 15 hp with 2.5-litre, built from 1908 to 1915 when a car was a rich man's adventure and every maker was a workshop.
How it came about
The Austin 15 hp is a 2.8-litre motor car manufactured by the British manufacturer Austin and first displayed at the seventh exhibition of motor vehicles which opened at London's Olympia in November 1908. Its tax rating was 20 horsepower. It was sold between 1908 and 1915.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 2.5-litre; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Ford Model T, the Lancia Alfa-12HP, the Oldsmobile Model M. Its British Motor Corporation stablemates include the Austin 10 and the Austin 12.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Austin 15 hp — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.