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Twin successes for CLAAS Tractor

AXION 800 wins awards for "Tractor of the Year 2014" and "Machine of the Year 2014"

Hanover, November 2013.  The CLAAS AXION 800 was the recipient of two awards at the AGRITECHNICA 2013 trade fair in Hanover – "Tractor of the Year 2014" and "Machine of the Year 2014".

The prestigious international "Tractor of the Year" prize is awarded every year by an independent jury of selected agricultural trade journalists. This year, having evaluated the best tractors on the market the 23-person jury awarded the most coveted "Tractor of the Year 2014" award to the CLAAS AXION 850.

"Receiving this award is a very special moment for us", stated Jan-Hendrik Mohr, Managing Director of Sales Division of CLAAS GLOBAL SALES GmbH, who accepted the award on behalf of the company. "The award is actually extra special because we are currently celebrating 10 years of CLAAS Tractor as well as our 100-year company anniversary."

Award presentation „Machine of the year 2014“ (from the left): Matthias Mumme (chief editor traction), Christophe Perge (CLAAS Tractor), Alexander Reinhardt (CLAAS Tractor), Thierry Garrigues (CLAAS Tractor), Friedrich Rüther (CLAAS Vertriebsgesellschaft), Lothar Kriszun (executive board, tractors), Karsten Schranz (traction), Detlef Steinert (chief editor dlz Agrarmagazin).

The "Machine of the Year" award  is presented every two years by the technology editors of the Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag (dlv) publishing house for the best innovations in agricultural technology. The prize in the large tractor category was this year awarded to CLAAS with its AXION 800 CMATIC. Explaining its decision, the jury stated: "The stepless transmission is operated using the CMOTION operating lever, which is one of the most ergonomic controls on the market. The CEBIS control terminal also allows the operator to make extensive adjustments. We particularly liked the simple engine/transmission management system. The easily adjusted engine torque function for various types of operation lowers fuel consumption and increases economic efficiency".

The new AXION 800 was launched in February at the SIMA trade fair in Paris and the first machines equipped with the HEXASHIFT transmission are now also going on sale. The range was extended with the launch of the new stepless transmission version of the AXION 800 CMATIC at the Agritechnica 2013 trade fair.

Twin successes: The AXION 800 is „Tractor Of The Year 2014“ and „Machine of the year 2014“.

The AXION 850 is the most powerful in the four model range which range in power output from 158/215 kW/hp to 194/264 kW/hp (as per ECE R 120).

With the AXION 800 winning both the "Tractor of the Year 2014" and the "Machine of the Year 2014" awards, this confirms that CLAAS is following the right concept in its tractor division, which has a strong focus on economy, efficiency and comfort.

The success of the concept was also underlined by the latest DLG Powermix Test in which the AXION 850 HEXASHIFT achieved the best test result out of all tractors in the 200 - 270 hp class with a result of 248 g/kWh.

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