4x4s.org NAMED MODEL · 1951–60
NAMED MODELMilitary · FranceFrance

VLR, French Army.

Slightly more than 4,000 ordered after the army’s trials in the second half of 1950 — the bulk of the 9,621 built.

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Sources & evidence
VLR, French Army — A Delahaye VLR.Stas Kozlovskiy · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLEVLR (1951–54)BUILT BYDelahaye, ParisIN SERVICE1951–60OPERATED INFrancePRODUCTIONSlightly more than 4,000 orderedLAYOUT4 wheels · 85″

The record

The VLR served in Indochina and North Africa and was withdrawn faster than its numbers suggest: complexity, fragility and the accidents blamed on the differential locks told against it, and the Hotchkiss M201 replaced it.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1951–60s
ENGINE1,992 cc light-alloy overhead-valve four, 63 hpDelahaye VLR 1,992 cc four
PRODUCTION RUNSlightly more than 4,000 ordered
COUNTRY OF ORIGINFrance
OPERATED INFrance
STATUSout of service
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEVLR
FAMILYVLR
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE85″
BODY STYLEsoft
CATEGORYMilitary · France

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • Vert Armée (French Army green)

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

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Sources

  1. 1Delahaye VLR ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched