Tractor test: Claas Celtis 456 RX Middle Claas Positioned in the middle of the Claas tractor line the 74kW/100hp Celtis 456 represents the firm’s mixed farming alternative to its arable-biased Ares 556. Does the relatively base Celtis spec sit comfortably with Claas’s quality image? We canter through the various facets of the Celtis argument
So, it’s here at last. After much UK rumour, speculation and denial, Claas has eventually bowed to the inevitable and changed the UK strip of the former Renault Celtis, Ares and Atles tractors – from Renault orange into Claas green. These are now fully fledged Claas products, and will be marketed as such, in the UK as well as in other countries.
Not that this comes as any great surprise. Following the announcement of the 2003 deal, in which Claas bought 51% of Renault, most industry pundits had reckoned that it was only a matter of time before Claas tractors were sold in green on this side of the Channel. And that time has now come. The distribution implications are many and complex, but we will leave closer scrutiny of those key issues for another occasion. Here we are more interested in the hardware, and assess what Claas engineers should be thinking about when they get around to updating the firm’s entry agric tractor product, the Celtis
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