ZIL-133

The ZIL-133 was a Soviet and later Russian three-axle straight truck built by ZiL in Moscow from 1975 to 2000, conceived as a higher payload, 6x4 version of the ZIL-130. Development began in the early 1960s and prototypes were finished in 1966, but series production was postponed repeatedly, partly because the new KamAZ plant was planning modern diesel cab-over trucks. The first version, the ZIL-133G1, used a six litre petrol engine of 140 kW derived from the ZIL-130 and became the biggest petrol-powered civil truck in the Soviet Union; the ZIL-133G2 raised the payload from 8 to 10 tons. A diesel version with the KamAZ-740 engine, the ZIL-133GYa, followed in 1979 and cut fuel use sharply. Most trucks were sold as bare chassis for cranes, fire equipment and dumpers, and later versions took the cab of the ZIL-4331 and stayed in production until about 2002 as the ZIL-630900.