Tractor test: Fendt 936 Vario With 360hp max power, a 60km/hr CVT box and a host of control spec on the featured 936 Vario, it is quite tricky to see in which direction Fendt can next progress its conventional tractor flag. More muscle? More speed? Who knows? For now, though, we must ‘make do’ with the current model, a tractor that pairs infield lugging power with a healthy dose of transport capability.
From a manufacturer that has traditionally wrapped its top-end tractor power in a compact package, the Fendt Vario 936 is big. And we mean ‘big’. Standing well over 3.0m tall, the 936 dwarves the firm’s predecessor flag, the 221kW/300hp 930 Vario, in every dimension. Big, of course, is not necessarily beautiful in all respects, and criticism on this score has been made of the tractor’s bulbous nose. Here Fendt has gone for short and wide rather than long and slim and, as a result, visibility of the front linkage is not perhaps quite what it could have been. Countering this, however, the view to all other tractor areas is pretty much beyond reproach. Still, it’s a little premature to be burying ourselves in panoramic detail at this early stage of our assessment.
The pairing of engine and transmission is where Fendt generally scores so highly, and much the same applies here on the 936 model. First, that motor. Well, there’s certainly no shortage of spec: Deutz’s TCD 2013 L06 4V provides six cylinders, four-valve technology, turbocharger, intercooler, common-rail fuel injection, electronic EDC control and Viscotronic cooling pack, external exhaust gas recirculation and Stage IIIa emission compliance
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