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The Fendt 942 Gen 6 is certainly eye-catching and it’s just as much fun to get behind the wheel of. Farm Trader NZ’s Jaiden Drought finds out more
he Fendt 900 Series tractor success story started back at Agritechnica 1995, with the 260hp (194kW) Fendt Favorit 926 Vario. Back in the days when we could still travel freely, I was privileged enough to attend Agritechnica 2019, where the new Fendt 900 Series Gen 6 tractor scooped two Tractor Of The Year (TOTY) prizes. The most notable of these was the much-coveted overall TOTY award and the Fendt team were justifiably pretty chuffed.
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WHAT’S NEW? Testing the first (and only) Gen 6 Fendt 942 in New Zealand was definitely a bit of a treat. The fact that this particular machine is the fully spec’d ‘Black Beauty’ edition added another layer of buzz. It sure turns heads wherever it goes. Agco North Island sales manager Chris Bain had been let loose on the tractor configurator when ordering this machine and opted for an impressive number of bells and whistles. Two words sum it up: complex and expensive. It’s complex in terms of the engineering that allows it to do the freakish things it does for such a large machine, yet remarkably without being a
complex machine to operate. And as for being expensive – well, you only live once. Revamped from the ground up with many similarities to the 1000 series, the new five model series sits in the power range of 296 to 415hp (221 to 309.5kW) slotting (with some overlap in power) between the Fendt 800 Vario and the 1000 Vario. The new range-topper, the 942 Vario, is the first time past 400hp (298kW) for the 900 series models and to show they mean business, you can opt for an extended warranty for up to eight years or 8,000 hours. The team behind the creation have thought of everything, right down to the catchy marketing phase ‘Fendt – it’s time’. This is a clever play on words, as nearly 400 years ago, the Fendt family started out making clocks. In 1930 came the first Dieselross tractor that was developed by direct descendants of those clockmakers.
ENGINE They say don’t get a boy to do a man’s job, so Fendt hasn’t. In fact, it has a nine-litre MAN on the job. This six-cylinder high-
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