Average is not a compliment, it's a slap, maybe not in reality, but as a description of something. I don't look at the comment in terms of average, one brand vs another, I look at it as an overall quality statement and average means there's much room for improvement. Do I think Kioti rises to Kubota levels of quality? Obviously I do or I would have bought a Kubota. I think Kioti far exceeds Kubota's level of quality in many areas. I rarely pass up the chance to sit on a tractor, especially if I haven't had a chance to see that model before. I've shopped Kubota and I've sat on a bunch of models I would never have an interest in buying, just for the sake of doing it. Some are nice, some shocked me for other reasons and quality didn't seem any better than the other colours.
It's almost criminal how few hrs my tractor sees in a year, but regardless of high hrs or low hrs I don't see one brand having a huge advantage over another. My first tractor was a JD 955 and I bought it with 1800 hrs after a golf course beat the **** out of it for 20 yrs. I sold it after a little more than 100 hrs, it just took to much tinker time to keep it going. After a bearing popped out the rear differential, I was done. I'm not saying JD is junk or they won't work as hard or last as long. Any machine that is properly maintained and not abused will work hard and last a long time.
Your statements make it sounds like you have some experience with the Bobcat/Kioti (Daedong) brands. Is this from owing and operating them, test driving them or have you even sat on one? My comments were to question how you came to your assessment that these are just average quality machines.
