Zetor News

http://zetorworld.com/news/newrange.html Thanks to a visitor of the zetorworld website, Rune from Norway, Zetorworld can show you the very first photos of the new Zetor Proxima range. The Proxima is the successor of the Super series, with a better standard equipment, an engine from the Forterra range, and more options to come. The engines are high torque 59 hp (three cylinder) 72, 79 and 87 hp (four cylinders with balance shafts) all with turbo, which have proven themself in the UR3 forterra range. Transmission variants are the 10/2 transmission as known from the super, a 12/12 shuttle shift, and later, a 16/16 shuttle reverser transmission with a 2 speed powershift will be added. About this 16/16 transmission, there are no further...

Proxima !! I had an e-mail yesterday from a dealer who was informed that the new Forterra based small Zetor series will be named Proxima. Quoting earlier information, the new series will have 3 and 4 cylinder engines based on the Forterra engines. The Super series will also get these engines, so all Zetors have engines from the UR3 family, with 105 mm bore and 110 mm stroke. Dutch dealers are hoping to be able to show it to the public at the Dutch agricultural fair in Zuidlaren, Drenthe, in the first week of December. It is not sure if it will make it on time for the show..

I have just put this on the news front page: ======================= Several rumors, as well as official information is spread the last months about this new range, but dealers can confirm that there will be a new range introduced within autumn of 2003, to summer 2004. This range will be inbetween the UR1 Super models and the UR3 Forterra, to fill the price and technology gap between these two ranges. Official sources speak of a new range, standard with shuttle reverser transmission, based on the UR3 (Forterra) range. Also, rumors are that the UR3 based three cylinder engines will be fitted in the existing UR1 models, because of emission regulations. Using the UR3 platform in the smaller tractor ranges will improve the availability...

The German importer SEMEX has some new pictures of the new forterras in a ploughing test. :D:D:) https://web.archive.org/web/20031207092250/http://www.semex.de/forterra%20neu.htm#fortterra