South Central MN | Kochia - 10/2/2024 16:36
In 2000 or so, Caterpillar was selling rebranded Claas combines. Caterpillar then sold their ag division to Agco, minus the Claas deal. Under agco, they were called Challenger
Agco started rebranding Massey combines as Challenger.
Agco at the time didn't do anything about Caterpillar dealers selling Claas.
2018 or so, agco discontinued the single rotor Axial rotaries.
Claas isn't limited to former Caterpillar dealers. Who is selling what, is up to the dealers and Claas. It could be claas didn't want to pull the combines from the dealers who were already selling them, but the dealers selling them didn't want or agco wouldn't allow it, to take on the rest of the line.
I thought I had the agco/cat/claas storyline down pretty well, but never realized that the original cat lexion were rebranded claas machines. I always thought that cat invented the lexion and sold it to claas when they sold the tractors to agco. In light of that, it's even more confusing that claas was selling yellow lexion for so long. I thought they kept the yellow for the cat history, but there really wasn't any cat DNA to the machine except the engine.
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