I don't know, maybe it's because I'm picky but I was able to tell some very big differences in virtually all the tractors that I looked at before I bought my NH. Granted I didn't look at Kioti, Mahindra or any of the other smaller brands, but that was because they weren't represented in my area and there were numerous dealers for NH, MF, JD, IH and Kubota. Anyway, just because say a NH Boomer 3045 and a JD 4320 appeared roughly equivalent as far as specifications, I found them to be very different tractors. I didn't really like the JD's because their cabs were much smaller than NH and MF, and to me they even felt smaller than the Kubotas. Also they were by far the most narrow in stance and I didn't like that so I personally wouldn't consider them equivalent to something else. Similarly I found some things like Kubota's hydro pedal placement to be different enough that I felt that even though specification wise, a certain model Kubota may be equivalent to say a certain model MF, there were significant differences. So I guess what I am saying is that money was not even close to the main reason that I bought what I bought. Frankly I wouldn't consider any two tractors (with the exception of a NH vs. CaseIH version of the same model) to be interchangeable. To me despite their proximity in price or horsepower or hydraulic flow, etc. each one of the colors was different enough from the other color that there was no "equivalent" tractor that was just painted a different color and priced differently.