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Yeah aside from the US having stricter emissions and better crash testing the European stuff is better.I know the Global ranger is still in production, When that pic was taken that truck was roughly 8 months old!!!
I could easily go to Germany, use a local address of several different Brothers and purchase a new global ranger. But then I have to pay to ship it over. And it has to go to Jersey to the only place authorized to convert Euro spec vehicles to substandard U.S. standards!!! Who knows what they would ruin. Euro spec vehicles so far supercede American it's not even funny!! But for some reason the U.S. has this misconception that our standards for vehicles are better. NOT HARDLY!!! I've also spent some time working in German Motorcycle shop, so I have 1st hand knowledge of the differences. If the Germans only built a pickup truck!!!!
Working in a tractor shop I have had the opposite experiance with forgein vs domestic built. Cheap (and yet at the same time expensive ) and cheesy seems to be the rule when they put tractors together over yonder. I am saying built not labeled because nobody builds compact utility tractors in the US anymore. German, Korea, Japan, England... they all march to a very odd drum.
That might work if you just wanted to drive it around in your yard. If you wanted to get a title for it... that is where you would have problems.They do screw up a lot, but I also heard you can get it into the country without their hands getting on it if its not considered an operational vehicle, say by, pulling the motor and shipping them separately?
If you have the motor pulled, just take it and forget the rest of it.
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