Rat - I've got an Agric tiller - made in Italy. It's been a good tiller, no doubt about that - as with most of my stuff, I've abused the stuffings out of it, and it's never failed me. If I had it to do over again, though, I'd buy an all-gear-drive tiller, because you could basically use it as a reverse-till unit when that worked best, and a regular one re rest of the time.
In fact, Agric makes an all-gear-drive tiller that is reversable (without going backwards - the gearbox lets you select forward or reverse operation) and has 2 or 3 speeds. I don't remember how much it costs, though - not cheap, I'm sure.