Tractor test: New Holland T7040 While the 100-155hp T6000 tractors may represent the massmarket mainstream for New Holland’s Basildon plant, there can be no doubt that the 167-225hp T7000 range is the factory’s crown jewel. Launched back at the tail end of 2006, much was expected of the T7000 when it first arrived on farm. So does the tractor deliver? We test the 134kW/182hp T7040 model.
Ironic, isn’t it, how key reliability issues are developed out of a product over its life cycle, to the point where it becomes pretty much problem-free? And then the manufacturer goes and replaces it with a new model.
That, in many ways, is the story of the New Holland T7000’s predecessor models – the long wheelbase TM175 and 190 – which suffered from well-documented cooling and transmission problems in their early days (2002/2003). The reality, though, is that the last of the long-wheelbase TMs were largely sorted and, in most cases, these 2005/2006-build TM tractors continue to perform up to par.
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