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History

After designing the Volkswagen for the German government's KDF program Ferdinand Porsche considered building a sports car version of the VW. Internally known as the Porsche Type 64 this car would feature an aluminium streamlined body, a 1.5L version of the Volkswagen's original 1.0L engine, and a top speed of at least 160km/h (90mph). 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. The Volkswagen Type 1, more commonly known as the Beetle, Bug or Käfer (German), is a compact car, produced by Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003. ... Strength Through Joy (German:Kraft durch Freude (KdF)), was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Third Reich, a part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeiterfront (DAF)), the national German labour organization. ... Ferdinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche (September 3, 1875 – January 30, 1951) was an Austrian automotive engineer. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... In fluid dynamics, a streamline is a line which is everywhere tangent to the velocity of the flow. ... Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...

Design

By 1938 Ferdinand had given up trying to arrange for a supply of VW parts for the Type 64. Ferdinand and his son Ferry 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 of portmanteau of Ferry and P-Wagen, it was a significant depature from the Type 64. Although it never reached the prototype stage the design drawings were all but completed and included a novel water cooled 72° V10 engine in a true mid engine layout, as opposed to the VW's rear engine layout. Suspension was by trailing arms in front and swing axles in the rear, with drum 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 poor economy lead to it's cancellation. Porsche did manage to salvage part of it's investment by selling the transaxle design to Volkswagen. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche ( September 19, 1909, Wiener Neustadt, Austria; March 27, 1998, Zell am See, Austria), also nicknamed Ferry, was an Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. ... It has been suggested that blend (linguistics) be merged into this article or section. ... 1936 Auto Union Wanderer Auto Union was a joint venture of four German automobile manufacturers, established in 1932 in Zwickau, Saxony, during the Great Depression. ... Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ... Watercooling is a method of heat removal from components. ... In automobile design, an MR or Mid-engine, Rear wheel drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed just in front of them, behind the passenger compartment. ... In Automobile design, an RR, or Rear-engine, Rear wheel drive, layout places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. ... A trailing-arm suspension is an automobile suspension design in which one or more arms (or links) are connected between (and perpendicular to) the axle and the chassis. ... A swing axle suspension is a simple type of independent suspension used in automobiles. ... A drum brake is a brake in which the friction is caused by a set of shoes or pads that press against the inner surface of a rotating drum. ... A transaxle, in the automotive field, is a component that combines the functionality of the transmission, the differential and the drive axle into one integrated assembly. ... Volkswagen (pronounced folksvagen; meaning: peoples car; also known as VW or V-Dub) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany in the State of Lower Saxony. ...

Legacy

The Porsche Type 114 never came to be, but it lived on in a number of Porsche cars. After World War II Ferry Porsche began to build sports cars based on the VW, and eventually began production of the Porsche 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 for racing and land speed record cars, such as the Type 60K10, a highly modified VW Beetle. While the type 114 was in the end little more then 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. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... Porsche 356 Speedster Porsche No. ... This article is about the branch of Physics. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, autosport or motorsport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... 1970 land speed record being set at Bonneville Salt Flats by Gary Gabelich Land Speed Records from 1898 The information below is for self-propelled wheeled vehicles travelling over open ground. ... Porsche 64 The Porsche 64, also known as the VW Aerocoupe, Type 64 and Type 64K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from Porsche. ...

External links

• http://www.theautobahn.com/forum/showcar.php?do=overview&car_model_id=412
• Photo of Type 114

References

• http://www.eroundel.com/gallery.htm?code=gpex&seqnum=34