![]() The proven rotatable cab (optional equipment) maintains the outstanding versatility of the vehicle. This 379-hp XERION model features the new CLAAS SEQUENCE MANAGEMENT automatic headlands control system, GPS-controlled steering and an ISOBUS connection, resulting in a consummate multifunctional performer. Introduction of the XERION 3800 large tractor. Its development began in late 2003, when tractor production was being incorporated into the CLAAS family. The machine was the first tractor to sport the seed-green livery from day one. The main components of the modern tractor were newly designed from the ground up. The AXION became available in five different model variants from 163 to 225 hp (120 to 165 kW ECE R24) and bridged the gap between the ARES 600 and the ATLES. All ARION series models had a choice of 40 km/h or 50 km/h top speed, at a economical 1,900 rpm.ĬLAAS AXION with infinitely variable CMATIC transmission variant. The new ARION series were equipped with the user-friendly HEXASHIFT transmission, which automates range shifting and can be operated without a clutch. The power boost from CLAAS POWER MANAGEMENT gave the largest models, the ARION 540 and ARION 640, an extra 20 hp, to cope with even the very toughest jobs. CLAAS tractors now covered a wide power rating spectrum from 112 hp to 155 hp, meeting the varied requirements of customers on the international market. In the tractors segment, CLAAS unveiled the new ARION 500 and 600 model series at Agritechnica. In the reworked XERION 3300, CLAAS had a versatile tractor covering a wide range of uses, available in three different variants: firstly, the XERION TRAC, with 335 hp, infinitely variable ZF transmission, RABA steering axle, and electronic four-wheel steering with six steering programmes secondly, the XERION TRAC VC, with the rotatable cab as its most distinctive feature and thirdly, the XERION SADDLE TRAC, with fixed cab mounted on the front axles. At that stage, the range of CLAAS tractors sporting the seed-green colour comprised four model series: the CELTIS, an all-rounder the ARES premium tractor the ATLES large tractor and the XERION, as the top-of-the-range model, made in Harsewinkel. In that same year, the former Renault tractor plant at Le Mans, France produced its first run of tractors in the CLAAS seed-green livery, which were duly presented to the public for the first time at Agritechnica. Upon its acquisition of a majority stake in Renault Agriculture in 2003, CLAAS was then in a position to add standard tractors to its product repertoire. But it is not just the technology of the XERION that makes it a firm favourite today like no other product, it epitomises the realisation of an entrepreneur’s vision and unwavering belief in the concept of a trac vehicle with infinitely variable drive. The consistent application of the infinite variability concept since the very first XERION model in 1978 can be seen as pointing the way forward. In retrospect, the HSG can be seen as marking the beginning of the development of trac vehicles at CLAAS, an idea that was taken up again in 1978 with Project 207, which many years later became internationally established as the XERION large tractor series. Yet the dream of a CLAAS tractor remained. However, the partnership did not proceed, and, as part of a savings programme at the time, the project had to be put on ice. ![]() CLAAS engineers had spent the four years from 1968 to 1972 making subtle modifications to a CLAAS tractor model, to be distributed in collaboration with Daimler-Benz and produced by CLAAS. The HSG was initially intended as an experimental vehicle for the development of a new hydrostatic transmission for combine harvesters (“Hydrostatisches Getriebe” in German, hence the abbreviation HSG), but it soon morphed into a project in its own right, as an entry ticket into the high-end tractor segment. It was designed for use all year round, as the ultimate “all-purpose” machine, but it remained in production only until 1960.Īt the end of the 1960s, CLAAS then took up the tractor idea again with the HSG project. ![]() This was a self-propelled combine harvester, which could be converted into an implement carrier once the harvest was over. August Claas had already developed and marketed a tractor-like “carrier for a range of tools and implements” in 1957, called the “HUCKEPACK”. ![]()
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