Driving impression: Destined to be one of the stars at this year’s Smithfield Show, the all-new Claas Targo telehandlers replace the long-serving Teleporter line-up. Andrew Faulkner travelled to Hertfordshire for an exclusive drive on a pre-series K70, the Targo flagship
We ask; the manufacturers respond. Back in 1999, we suggested that Claas needed to do something more radical with its telehandlers, to produce something more than a tweaked Teleporter (driving impression 03/99). This is Claas’s response: The Targo C-series compacts and larger Targo K-series machines.
And what a response! The Targo certainly looks different. Gone are the tail-mounted engine, midposition boom pivot, distinctively swan-necked boom profile and restricted visibility cab – to be replaced by a side-mount motor, rear-pivot boom, tighter boom/wheel/carriage arrangement at the front end and a bubble-like operator platform. There’s even a brace of hydrostatic models in there, too.
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