GAZ-MM

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GAZ-MM
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Overview
Manufacturer
  • GAZ (1938–1947)
  • UAZ (1947–1956)
Production1938–1956
Body and chassis
Class Truck
Layout FR layout
Powertrain
Engine 3.3L GAZ-M1 I4
Transmission 4-speed manual
Dimensions
Wheelbase 3,440 mm (135.4 in)
Length5,335 mm (210.0 in)
Width2,040 mm (80.3 in)
Height1,970 mm (77.6 in)
Curb weight 1,810 kg (3,990 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor GAZ-AA
Successor GAZ-51

The GAZ-MM is a Soviet light truck produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1938 to 1947, and then at the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant up to 1956. [1] The truck was a modernized and improved variant of the GAZ-AA that used the more powerful engine from the GAZ-M1, upgrading the vehicle's power to 50 hp. Other improvements included a reinforced suspension, alongside a new steering and cardan shaft. The styling also slightly changed, incorporating simple angular fenders, rather than the GAZ-AA's more rounded ones. [2] [3]

Contents

Due to some engine shortages at the factory, some believe that the actual mass-production of the GAZ-MM trucks only started in 1940, since the GAZ-M1 engine needed to get firstly used in the GAZ-AAA and BA-10 vehicles. [4]

In 1942 a simplified variant of the truck, with the GAZ-MM-V index started getting produced, due to material shortages, [5] but limited production of the original "unsimplified" GAZ-MM continued. After the Great Patriotic War ended, the production of all the variants of the GAZ-MM fully restarted, but by that time the Gorki plant was producing the newer GAZ-51 trucks, and so it seemed that the days of the GAZ-MM were starting to end, as GAZ wanted to free-up production capacity at their factory.

Due to these reasons, the production of the GAZ-MM truck was transferred to the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant (UAZ), where production lasted until 1956.

Variants

Most of the variants of the GAZ-MM were just modernized variants of the ones from the GAZ-AA series.

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