6 December 2024 - Macchine Trattori

New Opel “Frontera”, no longer off-road but crossover

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The return of Opel “Frontera,” a historic name in the automotive world and a market success between 1991 and 2003, has stirred mixed feelings. Unfortunately, Opel has chosen to distance the new model from its rugged off-road legacy, reintroducing the nameplate on a crossover that shares little with the original version. This decision—perhaps driven by a desire to revive emotional names from the past to boost sales or influenced by Opel’s integration into the Stellantis group, which has followed a similar approach with Fiat—aligns with a growing trend in the…

Landini’s “Trekker4 Energy” tracked vehicle, the prototype you don’t expect

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Two anniversaries, vastly different and celebrated in almost opposite corners of the globe, together encapsulate the industrial paths that can credibly and practically support the energy transition—a process often hailed as the remedy to environmental woes. In Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, the eponymous industrial group marked 30 years since the advent of hybrid propulsion, a milestone introduced by the Japanese automaker through a project initiated in 1994. Meanwhile, in Bologna, Landini celebrated its 140th anniversary by advancing its feasibility studies on hybridization in agricultural machinery with two prototypes that herald new…