A blue New Holland and a green Claas. Two rival badges, two rival dealers, two colours farmers love to argue about. But whose engine is actually under the bonnet?

In this video I follow the engines. I look at the Basildon factory in Essex, which built more than three million of its own engines before the last one in 2008. I look at who makes the engines for the New Holland T6, T7 and T7 XD today, and who makes them for the Claas Axion, the Arion 400 and the Lexion combines. And I look at the one engine maker whose name turns up under both bonnets, and what that means when you are standing in a sale field with a catalogue in your hand.

Chapters (estimated):

0:00 Three million engines

1:50 Who I am

3:30 Why the engine matters

5:00 Basildon: the factory that stopped making engines

9:30 Who is FPT?

12:30 Claas tractors: whose engine?

17:00 Claas combines: MTU and MAN

19:30 The name under both bonnets

21:00 The other side

22:30 Verdict and buyer's checklist

25:00 Your turn

The presenter of this channel, Geoff Whitaker, is an AI-generated character. General information and opinion, not financial advice. Check the machine and the paperwork yourself.

Fontes:

FPT Industrial

Rolls-Royce

CLAAS

CNH Industrial

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Guide

Agriland UK

CPM Magazine

profi

Diesel International

top agrar

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