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ThePorsche 114 was a 1938 proposed design for asports car powered by a 1493 ccV10 engine.

After designing theVolkswagen for theGermangovernment'sKDF program,Ferdinand Porsche considered building a sports car version of the VW. Internally known as thePorsche Type 64, this car would feature analuminiumstreamlined body, a 1.5L version of the Volkswagen's original 1.0L engine, and a top speed of at least 160 km/h (100 mph). Originally, the car was to use a large number of VW parts, but due to the intricacies of then German law, it was not legal to sell government made parts to a private company.

By 1938, Ferdinand had given up trying to arrange for a supply of VW parts for the Type 64. Ferdinand and his sonFerry Porsche decided to redesign the car from the ground up to be built internally by Porsche. This would have been the first car actually built by Porsche themselves. Known as the Type 114, or F-Wagen, a sort ofportmanteau of Ferry andP-Wagen, it was a significant departure from the Type 64. Although it never reached theprototype stage, the design drawings were all but completed and included a novelwater cooled 72 BHP V10 twin camshaft engine in a truemid engine layout,^[1] as opposed to the VW'srear engine layout. Suspension was bytrailing arms in front andswing axles in the rear, withdrum brakes at all four corners. The body was aluminum and resembled a lower, stretched, and streamlined VW. Porsche had hopes of producing this car, but international tensions and a pooreconomy lead to its cancellation. Porsche did manage to salvage part of its investment by selling thetransaxle design toVolkswagen.

The Porsche Type 114 never came to be, but it lived on in a number of Porsche cars. AfterWorld War II, Ferry Porsche began to build sports cars based on the VW, and eventually began production of thePorsche 356, which in concept was identical to the Type 64. Also,aerodynamic research for the 114 led to a series of bodies produced by Porsche forracing andland speed record cars, such as theType 60K10, a highly modified VW Beetle. While the type 114 was in the end little more than a design study, it had a large impact on the future course of Porsche and the cars that would make the company a dominant force in the automotive world.

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