Production chronology1951–1954
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
Wikipedia infobox ↗4 years
← Delahaye
Delahaye / Model record
DelahayeVLR
Production1951–1954
Recorded originFrance
Classpassenger car
Background
The Delahaye VLR was a four-wheel-drive passenger vehicle clearly inspired by the Jeep and first presented, after an unusually long gestation, by Delahaye during the Summer of 1950. At a time when the luxury car market had been driven into freefall by a combination of government taxation policy and the depressed state of the postwar economy, the VLR was critical in keeping alive the company that produced it during the early 1950s.
Text adapted from “Delahaye VLR” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1952
First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Netherlands RDW ↗1 year