{"id":252006,"date":"2022-11-13T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/?p=252006"},"modified":"2022-04-12T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:10:55","slug":"pininfarina-showed-a-tractor-for-the-vineyards-of-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/pininfarina-showed-a-tractor-for-the-vineyards-of-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Pininfarina showed a tractor for the vineyards of Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"

We say “tractor with automotive genes” – we mean Lamborghini. However, many will also remember Porsche. Connoisseurs will call Ford and Mitsubishi. And for those who know, for example, International Harvester, you can safely hand over the Crystal Owl. But Fiat should also be in this row. The Fiat Tractors division, which later became the FiatAgri conglomerate, not only produced Fiat-branded tractors, but produced them at the Modena plant. Not surprisingly, they were also design<\/a>ed by Pininfarina. True, this was back in the mid-1970s on Fiat 80-series tractors, but now history is repeating itself in a sense. Pininfarina has unveiled the New Holland Straddle tractor concept for CNH Industrial, owned by the Agnelli family.<\/p>\n

\"Pininfarina<\/a><\/p>\n

New Holland has been an American manufacturer of farm equipment for over 100 years. In the 80s, the company was owned by Ford, in the 90s by Fiat, and today it is one of the brands of the CNH Industrial group along with the brands Iveco, Steyr Tractors, Heuleiz Bus, Magirus and others.<\/p>\n

The Straddle is built to work in the vineyard. And not in anyone, but in the “premium vineyards of Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy”, as the developers assure. The vines in these vineyards are planted in very narrow rows. Actually, hence the name Straddle, which means to drive: the new tractor has a track so wide that two rows of screws pass between the wheels at the same time, and the tractor driver mostly sits in his high cab. The four wheels are equipped with individual electric motors, but judging by the exhaust pipe and air intakes, the tractor is still driven by a hybrid power plant.<\/p>\n

\"Pininfarina<\/a><\/p>\n

The exterior and interior were developed under Pininfarin chief designer Kevin Rice, best known for his previous work at BMW and Mazda. It is unlikely that Mr. Rice would call working on tractors his design dream, but orders from manufacturers of agricultural equipment and commercial vehicles have always been an important part of the portfolio of Italian design studios. Pininfarina, formerly of Fiat, has now designed a tractor for the Zetor, while Italdesign is partnering with Lamborghini Tractors, Bergamo-based SAME and the German company Deutz-Fahr. And this is only from the field of tractors and, for example, railway transport, where ItalDesign himself helped to create locomotives for Transmashholding and cars for the Moscow Metro.<\/p>\n

it's just that these design giants have few orders for cars today. Pininfarina hasn't been built for Ferrari since 2011, and in 2015 it was sold to Mahindra and today works more for start-ups in the East (Foxconn, VinFast, Karma, Grove, Hybrid Kinetic) than for automotive giants (the last major European developer of the project was the 2013 BMW Gran Lusso Coup\u00e9 concept car, but the studio plans to return to the big game with its own 1,900-horsepower electric supercar, the Pininfarina Batista, developed in collaboration<\/a> with Rimac and produced in 150 units at a price of $2 million each. It is obvious that tractors do not promise such income.<\/p>\n

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We say “tractor with automotive genes” – we mean Lamborghini. However, many will also remember Porsche. Connoisseurs will call Ford and Mitsubishi. And for those who know, for example, International Harvester, you can safely hand over the Crystal Owl. But Fiat should also be in this row. The Fiat Tractors division, which later became the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[561,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-catalog","category-all-for-a-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto.inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}