The Unproduced Porsche 114

As a Porsche fan, I thought I’d heard of every model out there.  Then I found a reference to the Porsche 114, a car I’d never heard of before.  Well, after a little research, I discovered that I had never heard of it because the Porsche 114 actually doesn’t exist!  It was supposed to be a sports car that used a 1493 cc V10 engine, but it never came to be.

The Porsche 114 actually began with Ferdinand Porsche’s plans for a Volkswagen sports car.  He started work in the Porsche Type 64, a car that would use some Volkswagen parts.  However, under German law, the Volkswagen parts (designed for the government sponsored KDF program) could not be sold to a private company.

Ferdinand eventually gave up on the Type 64, but his son, Ferry Porsche, liked the idea so much that he completely redesigned it so that Porsche could provide all of the parts.  In fact, his design, the Porsche 114, would be the very first car built by Porsche.  His design ended up being very different from the Type 64, but sadly, the plans never made it off the drawing board.  There wasn’t even a prototype of the 114 built.

However, even though the Porsche 114 wasn’t ever constructed, it did influence several other designs, including the designs of several Porsche racing cars.  I think the Porsche 114 is one of the most important cars never produced, if for no reason than it got Ferry Porsche thinking about how the company could built its own cars.

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