Porsche 114

The Porsche 114, also called the Type 114 or F-Wagen, was a 1938 proposed design for a sports car with a 1,493 cc V10 engine. Ferdinand Porsche first considered a sports car version of the Volkswagen, the Type 64, with an aluminium streamlined body and a 1.5 litre version of the Volkswagen engine. German law made it impossible to sell government made Volkswagen parts to a private company, so Ferdinand and his son Ferry redesigned the car from the ground up to be built by Porsche itself, which would have been the first car Porsche built. The design drawings were almost complete and showed a water-cooled 72 bhp V10 with twin camshafts in a true mid-engine layout, trailing arms at the front and swing axles at the rear. International tensions and a poor economy cancelled it. It never reached the prototype stage, but Porsche sold its transaxle design to Volkswagen, and the research shaped the 356.