Mitsubishi as a company has been bleeding red ink for years....
I liked how so much of the Kubota was done in house....
The thing that really swayed me is the guy behind me has a large Mahindra machine and he has had nothing but issues with it, loader, transmission, just this year the radiator blew its side out....
Saying one is for serious work and the other to cut grass and play around the estate is a stupid and uninformed opinion.
....at the time I bought you got the financing deal on their equipment as well....not sure if Mahindra has the same deal going.
Cherokee140, I shortened your post a little, but I think I left everything in context.
If you are indicating that we should avoid Mitsu because they fail to make your investment criteria, that is a real stretch.
I too like how much of Kubota's product is made in house. Worldwide, Mahindra is similar in that it produces a huge majority of it's own tractors and parts. In the USA however, we do sell a lot of the Mitsu product, which is obviously not made by Mahindra.
Radiators blowing out the side are normally due to neglect and gross over heating. However if your neighbor has had a bunch of problems I can understand that you would hold your position that Mahindra is not for you. No doubt word of mouth and happy customers sell tractors, unhappy customers sell tractors for other brands. Occasionally but rarely there is a problematic unit, but other brands have their stories as well. In the larger picture, you will find Mahindras to be quite reliable.
Calling people stupid and uninformed is your prerogative, but generally just gets people fired up and off topic. If you see no duty cycle or longevity issues between a ladder frame/aluminum transaxle sort of SCUT and a conventional design, so be it. Is not a tractor several hundred pounds lighter a better mowing tractor? Is not a heavier more robustly made tractor better at some things as well? This isn't a quality bash, more of a "right tool for the job" point. You can make that point within a brand, it does not need to be brand X vs brand Y. Is your
BX25D less of a tractor than the
B26? They are about the same HP, same brand, yet one might be a better mowing and estate tractor than the other? I took Mahindra out of the equation to try to make a point.
Mahindra incorporates implements into the financing packages and has for years. Mahindra also uses it's own finance arm, Mahindra Finance USA.
Finally, I'm a Mahindra dealer, but I respect Kubota and I like their product. Like I said much earlier in this thread, a buyer will be happy with either machine.
