The Agria is certainly colorful. I'd be interested in your thoughts from an operator's viewpoint as to what is different about the Agria from a typical tractor.
Still need to gather some more thoughts as I use it from the operators viewpoint.
Essentially, this type of tractor is built to work on hills and tight places. Hence the low profile and narrow stance. These are the main features of this type of tractor.
For instance, these tractors are used a lot in vineyards done in terraces. These vineyards have a narrow spacing in between rows, so the narrow stance of the tractor is needed and so is the low profile, since terraces are done on side of mountains.
Here is a little example of an Antonio Carraro demoing the maneuverability in Douro region, north of Portugal, where some of the best whines are made.
My old Agria is very basic. It's an old tractor after all. The modern ones have some really nice features and often provide higher hydraulic flow rates, since a lot of central mounted implements are hydraulic driven.
The main players on this style of tractor are Antonio Carraro, BCS Group (Pasquali, Ferrari and BCS, all the same) and Goldoni. All these brands offer this style of tractors and some variants as well, like low and wide or low and narrow.
They also offer either Articulated steering and the conventional front axle steering (a bit safer than the articulated). BCS also offer a dual steering system which combines the articulation with the front axle steering.
Another great benefit of these tractors and probably the main selling point, is that some models offer a reversible operators platform. Essentially you turn the operators platform around so you're facing the implement all the time.
My old Agria is very basic. It's an old tractor after all. The modern ones have some really nice features and often provide higher hydraulic flow rates, since a lot of central mounted implements are hydraulic driven.
Forget loader work with this type of tractor. Not at all made for it. These have a weight distribution of like 60% Front and 40% back. Totally the opposite of a conventional tractor. This little Agria probably has more than 60% on the front. With no implement in the back, it's always trying to spin tires on me without 4WD engaged.
Then, there is the long nose. This would make the loader with really long arms and very little lifting capacity. While you'll some videos of these tractors with loaders, it's often a cumbersome setup that can only do very light work.
Sorry of the long post. I tend to digress "slightly".