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three brands is top notch. I would put the Kioti a few years behind in design, but catching up fast. The newest generation Kioti cab tractors pale in comparision to the newest generation Deere cab tractors, go sit in a mid-sized Deere cab and you will be very impressed. NH lags in cab tractors, not offering cabs for anything but their largest Boomers (but rumor has it that will change). As for engines, I beleive that Kubota has the best engines, followed closely by Yanmars (which are still in SOME of the Deere tractors). In terms of reliability (based on Warrenty Claims), Kubota is the best, Deere is second, NH is third (as per 3 multi-brand dealers who I know, but that could be different according to other dealers) Kioti pales compared to Kubota based on the local Cub/Kubota/Case dealer who stopped selling the larger Cub tractors a few years ago because of warrenty claims, those tractors were made by Kioti (Cub 8000 series used to be Kioti DK35, DK40 and DK45 tractors painted in Cub white & yellow, Cub also used Mitsubishi for their 7000 series tractors, but as of this year Cub & Yanmar have entered into a joint agreement to co-brand CUTs as Cub/Yanmars and distributed through Cub dealers).
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