RE: Swords into ploughshares for Pininfarina
Saturday 14th November 2015
"Pininfarina's new design shifts Zetor to a more intense, emotional experience that is highly sensual, dynamic and modern," starts the press release. Ooh, what's this then? A new coachbuilt supercar? "The idea behind the Zetor by Pininfarina concept is the embodiment of a perfect combination of power, dynamics and emotion," it continues, teasingly.
The red ones are fasterBut this isn't a new coachbuilt supercar. It is, as you'll have gathered, a tractor. A Pininfarina designed tractor at that. But still a tractor.
Swords into ploughshares for Pininfarina
It's powerful, it's red, it's got styling by Pininfarina and really, really big wheels!
The red ones are faster
Nothing wrong with that and as Bertone folds we know times are tough for the Italian styling houses. Supercars and tractors have a celebrated history too of course, Porsche once having a sideline in agricultural machinery and some bloke called Lamborghini funding a supercar start-up off the back of his tractor business.
Design that "communicates emotion and passion" is perhaps something new for the farm machinery business though, Pininfarina Chief Creative Officer Fabio Filippini promising this and more for a new corporate styling language for the Czech tractor builder's range. The tractor is being displayed at the Agritechnica show in Hannover, an event we've never heard of but - to our inner three-year-olds at least - one that sounds rather fun if it involves sitting in lots of brightly coloured farm machinery. We'll sort our press accreditation and offer a full show report next time it's on!
Discussion
I'd love PH to cover more agricultural stuff. I understand that radar-guided cruise control appeared on combine harvesters long before it found its way into an S-class... and as tractors go, this one looks pretty good! A lot bigger and more powerful than the wee grey Fergie I used to drive as a teenager in 1970s Perthshire...
RoverP6B said:
I understand that radar-guided cruise control appeared on combine harvesters long before it found its way into an S-class...
Quite. Some of the contractors who plough my fields have been using radar guided ploughs for longer than I care to remember... They still manage to knock my gateposts down mind, b
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RoverP6B said:
I'd love PH to cover more agricultural stuff. I understand that radar-guided cruise control appeared on combine harvesters long before it found its way into an S-class... and as tractors go, this one looks pretty good! A lot bigger and more powerful than the wee grey Fergie I used to drive as a teenager in 1970s Perthshire...
+1I think anyone who loves all things automotive would find a lot of the agri stuff hugely interesting. Modern and classic.
I love tractors. For the last couple of days I've been doing precision work with the bluntest of instruments - a 1970's Ford 2000. It's a bit of a pig but hugely satisfying when you get it all right. Lock the diff with your right foot, release the clutch, give it some welly with the hand accelerator while manhandling the steering wheel and make whatever it is your're doing your bh.
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Peppka said:
Pinnifarina designed Fiat tractor cab in 80's when they were painted orangey brown had a triangular side window and one piece glass door unusal then. All changed when Ford sold tractor division to Fiat and the 2 ranges became amalgamated now part of CNH Case New Holland.
Ah the Fiat with the comfort or super comfort cabs. The door glass would self destruct as the wire for restraining the door stretched with being opened in a rush and the glass came in contact with the wings, farmers don't open doors in a canny manner. As for the curved rear window on the comfort cabs, nice distortion of the view when closed just at a point where you liked to see out.Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
mikecassie said:
Peppka said:
Pinnifarina designed Fiat tractor cab in 80's when they were painted orangey brown had a triangular side window and one piece glass door unusal then. All changed when Ford sold tractor division to Fiat and the 2 ranges became amalgamated now part of CNH Case New Holland.
Ah the Fiat with the comfort or super comfort cabs. The door glass would self destruct as the wire for restraining the door stretched with being opened in a rush and the glass came in contact with the wings, farmers don't open doors in a canny manner. As for the curved rear window on the comfort cabs, nice distortion of the view when closed just at a point where you liked to see out.Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
rastapasta said:
mikecassie said:
Peppka said:
Pinnifarina designed Fiat tractor cab in 80's when they were painted orangey brown had a triangular side window and one piece glass door unusal then. All changed when Ford sold tractor division to Fiat and the 2 ranges became amalgamated now part of CNH Case New Holland.
Ah the Fiat with the comfort or super comfort cabs. The door glass would self destruct as the wire for restraining the door stretched with being opened in a rush and the glass came in contact with the wings, farmers don't open doors in a canny manner. As for the curved rear window on the comfort cabs, nice distortion of the view when closed just at a point where you liked to see out.Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
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