From what I have gathered its exactly the same except for the loader. Just add Mahindra decals and markup and you have a mForce.
Clagg, that would seem to be so, but it isn't entirely that simple.
We have been told that the tractors spec out differently and are featured a little differently. But obviously the base tractor is the same, so there are only so many changes to be made. And as far as additional markup....Mahindra drives a hard bargain when they offer a manufacturer a bunch of cash for a couple thousand tractor order. On some models, I believe our cost on our TYM based Mahindra is less than my local TYM dealer pays, and when we combine that with great Mahindra consumer and floorplan options....it's a good deal. Probably on some models, it is the opposite and TYM dealers have a price advantage. I'm not sure we would know unless a dealer was a TYM and a Mahindra dealer and could compare, and then we would have to compare not just bare cost, but warranty, volume bonuses, and all the other things that affect real cost and actual profitability.
TYM has a good capacity to manufacture tractors, but direct sales of TYM's in the USA by TYM have not been so stellar through their own dealers to discourage TYM from providing a bunch of tractors to Mahindra. TYM is a fine manufacturer of tractors, but their history of sales in the USA has been interesting. I think there were sold as Millenniums, then Scorpions, then through a couple of different distributors, and once all of those failed, I believe they are now sold under TYM-USA? I'm sure not a TYM historian, so feel free to correct and educate me. TYM has been building select models for Mahindra USA for over 10 years, so it is a longstanding relationship with more consistency than TYM's own sales efforts in the USA.
Mahindra sells well over 200k tractors a year worldwide, and they build in excess of 80% of those at their own plants. But as most manufacturers do, they find some niches for which it is better to partner, such as the Max/16 series partnership with Mitsubish, etc. TYM builds approximately 10k per year total units for themselves and for Mahindra combined, so when Mahindra decides to order a boatload of these, rest assured they get a reasonable price since they can wield significant influence on total production.
My production numbers above are approximate only, but close enough to demonstrate my point. The 10K number for TYM production was from TYM's website. I believe Mahindra topped 230k units in 2011, that is from Farm Equipment news releases online. So every time TYM sells 4 tractors, Mahindra sells 100. Just some numbers to keep things in perspective.