TomKioti
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Powertrac is supposed to be made in the U.S.A. I wonder if all of it is 
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A lot of products that are manufactured in the USA are made from parts or raw materials from other countries. The labeling laws concerning foreign content are very complex. I doubt that it is 100% made in USA from 100% made in USA components. Things such as steel plate is made elsewhere and how is the consumer to know if the steel plate that was made into a loader bucket originated in the USA, China, or some other foreign land. I doubt that most people wouldn't even care, because the cost of the item is the largest concern for most people, not where it was made. I don't know if it is still done, but a few years ago, the automobile manufacturers would list the percentage of materials that went into the building of the automobile with the country of origin of the foreign content. I remember reading that Ford Crown Vic's were XX % US content and the balance from other countries.
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cdover73
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So, is the ad available anywhere? Where?? I would like to see it, but it sounds like it is no longer available. However, this is the internet...if there was ever a posting on the ad, it is still out there somewhere!
AchingBack
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Check at your dealer. Mine had a poster of the opening frame of the ad. It shows big red hefting a green, and a red tractor into the air at the same time. If my dealer still has his, I'll have to talk him out of it; or maybe take a picture of it.cdover73 said:
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That is not the advertisement in question.AchingBack said:
The one that apparently got them in trouble with Deere was an ad that had a big title "Deere John . . . " It went on to say that they found a new tractor to love.
It was an advertising version of the "Dear John" letters that so many of our US military people get from their wives and girlfriends saying that they found another person and want to break up. Personally, I don't own a Deere (unless you count a push mower, a weed wacker and some other small stuff) but I have to admit that in a time of war, when so many soldiers come home to find that they have lost their wives & families it is an offensive advertisement. I personally know 2 soldiers who came back and their spouse had not waited for their return
Honestly I don't know what part of the advertisement got Mahindra in hot water with Deere, but I know that the advertisement was just in bad taste. JMHO
Didn't this ad run at one time on this website - I could have sworn I had seen that in the little header ads that run above forums. If not, maybe I saw it in a magazine.
I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.
I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.
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Tim, I don't know if it was a banner ad here or not. I've seen it in at least one of the rural life magazines I get. Not sure which one. Possibly Hobby Farm? I also like the Mahindras, but can't say that I agree with you about thinking it was funny, especially with the situations our soldiers are facing now.rtimgray said:
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rtimgray said:
I am a JD fan and I thought it was funny also!
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