Fendt
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Fendt is a German manufacturer of agricultural tractors and machines. It is part of AGCO Corporation. It was founded in 1937 by Xaver Fendt and purchased by AGCO in 1997.
Fendt manufactures and markets a full line of tractors, and recently began selling combines built by AGCO and Laverda. Fendt also developed the Vario gearbox which is one of the most advanced tractor gearboxes. It is also used in JCB and Massey Ferguson machines.
The vario gearbox was first developed in the 1970s but due to lack of funding it was never seen on a production tractor until 1996 when fendt launced the revolutionary Fendt 926 vario. this was the first ever stepless transmission to be launched onto the tractor market, and still is the only ever true stepless transmission with brands such as John Deere and New Holland trying to make a piece of machinery as advanced as a Fendt. When put into a tractor the gearbox electronics can be "tweaked" to make this tractor go much faster than its electronically limited 50km/h top speed.
Fendt have just launched the fastest, most powerful conventional tractor ever, the Fendt Vario 936. This has all of the technology featured in the previous tractors plus a little bit more. These tractors are capable of speeds of 65km/h and are rated at 360hp(DIN)
