Ok, Here�s my 2 cents and I have been around tractors all my life. The grey market tractors came about in the late 70�s. When the American Company�s started outsourcing the manufacturing of their tractors to foreign countries to utilize their cheap labor and resources. They started build the tractors for American Tractor Companies so they could make a higher profit on their tractors. This movement has been just like the TV and electronics movement of the same error. I challenge you to try to buy a American made TV. I bet you can�t! This business move put most all American Tractor Manufactures out of business because the companies that started building the tractors for them started selling them direct to consumers under different names cutting out the middleman (American tractor Manufactures). Kubota was one of the first grey market tractors to get tractors over here back in the 70�s. They have since dominated the market (IMHO). Kubota has built a network of dealers and part suppliers, which is good because if you�re going to sell it here at least support it here! Mahindria Tractors pretty much has done the same thing but they are not on the same level as Kubota. These two manufactures have just about become as common as Ford or GMC in comparison to automobiles. There are a lot of other tractor manufactures that are trying to do the same or claim that they are, some of these that come to mind are Mitsubishi, Sato, Hinimoto, Jimma just to name a few. But they are all gray market tractors shipped over here without the support of true dealer networks or parts network. Most of these tractors from Japan (not China) sent over here are not New anyway, they are what they call remanufactured (painted pretty on the outside but a wore out underneath). I am aware that people selling these tractors all claim that they can get the parts and repair them. But have you actually been there eye to eye trying to get a part to get you back up in operation ? In the mid 80�s my father bought a Hinimoto tractor from a big dealer in Houston (Southerland Tractors) we had the tractor about a year and the transmission went out. The dealer had since gone out of business and we could not find parts for it. The tractor is still setting split in the middle to this day because of it. I can tell you from my own personal experience with my 1994 Mahindia 575 DI tractor that getting parts for it can be a challenge sometimes because they are not made to they American standards and they do not support the older tractors like their newer ones. My advice would be to buy a Kubota, John Deere, Massy Ferguson, or Case were the dealer networks are deep rooted in the USA but that�s my opinion.

This is just another example of how the American people have sold themselves out to a foreign country!!! Is there anything still made in the USA from start to finish?