This makes us Cub fans very happy though. JD has the ability to make competent machinery. Cub, on the other hand, seems to only have the ability to made competent garden tractors. The 5K and 6K machines, while great on paper, are not good machines for most folk that use them, especially when you consider that they are no price bargains. But now with the Yanmar partnership they'll have reliable and capable machines to compete with JD and Kubota.
BTW, I saw an EX3200 at my dealer a couple weeks back: $23K with loader, bh, bh thumb, work lights, just about every option you can get from the factory. That's not bad for a 32hp machine. Hopefully this new creature will be aggressively priced as well. |