Case IH - MXU/Maxxum

USED MACHINERY: Case IH dealers across Europe must have rubbed their collective hands with glee when the company introduced its MXU tractor range in 2003 – and with some justification: Spanning 100 to 135hp, the five-model line-up turned out to be exactly the sales hit that the brand needed. Today, four years on, how does the MXU fare as a second-hand buy? James de Havilland reports

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Case IH MXU/Maxxum tractors: Case IH dealers across Europe must have rubbed their collective hands with glee when the company introduced its MXU tractor range in 2003 – and with some justification: Spanning 100 to 135hp, the five-model line-up turned out to be exactly the sales hit that the brand needed. Today, four years on, how does the MXU fare as a second-hand buy? James de Havilland reports

First, a little history – with a modicum of geography thrown in, too. Case IH MXU tractors destined for Europe, the UK and Eire, were initially built both in Basildon, Essex, and St Valentin, Austria. Then, in mid-2006, Case IH shifted all of its MXU Pro spec model production from the UK over the Channel to Austria.

Which in the small matter of a couple of sentences brings us pretty much bang up to date – to the current top-spec Maxxum Multicontroller. Why the Multicontroller tag? Well that’s down to the red tractor’s distinctive joystick, which first put in an appearance on the brand’s CVX stepless models and now ranks as one of the more prominent differences between our featured Case IH mid-rangers and their platform-sharing siblings, the blue New Holland TS-A models.

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