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August 21, 2004
TRACTOR TEST: Fendt 930 Vario TMS Mighty Captain Fendt-tastic Head of Fendt's family the 221kW/300hp 930 Vario is currently rated as the world's most powerful commercially available standard tractor and is also the only unit…
December 21, 2003
TRACTOR TEST: A tractor maker’s top selling models tend to be in the 74kW/100hp-96kW/130hp category which, bearing in mind where average power currently sits in most European countries, would seem to make sense. Why, then,…
January 10, 2003
Vario? Great gearbox; excellent on spud work; it can be made to ‘dance’ by the right operator. Yet despite these kinds of comments, the Fendt still has a reputation of being a one-man tractor, tricky…
September 21, 2002
TRACTOR TEST: Transformation almost complete, new entry-level Fendt 300s now adopt the same cutesy curves as their 400, 700 and 900 higher hp siblings. These ‘fashionable’ baby Fendts were introduced at the Agritechnica 2001 event,…
March 14, 2002
DRIVING IMPRESSION: No, there’s still no semi-powershift option for the smaller Fendts. Yet, importantly, there are changes on the latest Farmer 300C – and more than just the adoption of 400 Vario-style curves at the…
January 18, 2002
Driving impression: There is no doubt that the Cat MT-series has quite a tractor act to follow, its predecessor Challenger 35/45/55 models having developed a substantial reputation on this side of ‘The Pond’. Reporting from…
January 21, 2002
TRACTOR TEST: The first cutting-edge tractor with an infinitely variable gearbox – that was the Favorit 926 Vario, launched by Fendt in 1996. Five years after we tested that first tractor, Fendt is lining up…
March 21, 2001
TRACTOR TEST: When Fendt launched its Farmer 400 tractor range at Agritechnica ‘99, questions were asked – and one in particular. Can it really make sense to take Vario stepless transmission technology all the way…
November 21, 2000
TRACTOR TEST: Stepless, versatile, comfortable, a quality product – and, ouch, expensive. The Fendt argument shows little sign of changing on the 712 Vario, one of the smaller models in the German firm's mid-sector 700-series…
September 21, 2000
The Fendt combine may only be on sale in Germany and France, yet we should still be interested in what our continental counterparts are up to. We are, as we're constantly being told, part of…
March 21, 2000
DRIVING IMPRESSION: So, it would never happen? Wrong. Those who scoffed that Fendt would never fit its Vario stepless transmission to smaller tractors will now be tucking into humble pie. For, at Agritechnica '99, Fendt…
