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White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4

Built: 1944 · Series: Other models

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CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4 comes from the manufacturer White. According to the available register data, the vehicle dates from 1944. The truck is 5,210 mm long and 1,970 mm wide. Its kerb weight comes to 3,810 kg. Fully loaded, it may not exceed 4,485 kg. The engine has 6 cylinders, with a displacement of 5,244 cm³. Axle to axle, the wheelbase is 3,310 mm. It runs on 4 wheels. The Dutch vehicle register lists one example of this model.

White – other models: the collective page of the American maker's half-track and scout-car vehicles, M3, M3A1 and M16 from the Second World War, 4.8 to 14 litres, six- and eight-cylinder engines

This page gathers vehicles of the White Motor Company that the register could not assign to a named range – mainly the half-tracks and armoured scout cars White built for the US Army during the Second World War. White, founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900, developed the M3 Scout Car, a lightly armoured reconnaissance vehicle with a wheel-and-track combination, and, together with other makers, the M3 half-track personnel carrier and its anti-aircraft variant M16 with a quadruple machine-gun mount. The model list shows the M3A1 variant (with a ring mount for a machine gun), the M2A1 as a shorter version, and post-war trucks of the WC range and the 3000 and 3014 types, with which White continued after the war as a heavy-truck maker.

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The register lists here 29 versions with displacements from 4,800 to 14,000 cm³ from six- and eight-cylinders, unladen weights from 3,240 to 9,637 kg, gross weights from 4,485 to 20,000 kg, lengths from 4,900 to 8,870 mm and widths from 1,970 to 2,510 mm.

The M3 Scout Car and M3 half-track were among the most widely built American military vehicles of the Second World War and continued in service with many armies worldwide after 1945; White itself was taken over by Volvo in 1980, and the brand lived on as WhiteGMC into the 1990s.

On these historic military vehicles, the condition and completeness of tracks and running gear, rust on the pressed-steel body, the originality of the engine and weapon mounts, and the function of the mechanical brakes count; parts run through specialist military-vehicle restorers.

Sources: SpecCodex register, model data: White (weitere Modelle)

Technical data

Engine

Cylinders6correct
Displacement5,244 cm³correct

Dimensions and weights

Length5,210 mmcorrect
Width1,970 mmcorrect
Wheelbase3,310 mmcorrect
Unladen weight3,810 kgcorrect
Gross vehicle weight4,485 kgcorrect

Drivetrain and chassis

Wheels4correct

Frequently asked questions

How much does the White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4 weigh?

The unladen weight is 3,810 kg.

What is the gross vehicle weight of the White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4?

4,485 kg.

What engine does the White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4 have?

6 cylinders, 5,244 cm³ displacement.

What are the dimensions of the White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4?

5,210 mm × 1,970 mm.

When was the White CAR - SCOUT M3 A1 4X4 built?

Production years: 1944.

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This page carries 10 individual figures for this model. They come from 1 recorded source; every figure can be traced there. What we cannot document is not here — we leave gaps open rather than estimate them.

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Sources: RDW — Dutch national vehicle register (retrieved August 2026) · How we check the data

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