Fiat screwed up when they merged CaseIh with New Holland . They should have kept the Case IH tractor line . The Pumas and new Maxxums aren’t half as good as these tractors. Then again Landini should have realized how lucky they were to get these tractors. They should have dumped the Landini line and kept the Case Ih in the McCormick lineup
They did keep it, untill they started tinkering with the powershift to make it an 8 speed. That made it so unreliable that the McCormick brand and the MX product line collapsed. collapsed.
But i agree: if they added two more powershift steps to the MX and incorporated the Steyr S-matic (CVX) in this tractor line, kept the MXC as is, and replaced the CX series by the various Steyr models, they could have operated as a financially stable independent manufacturer with modern product lines, from just the Neuss plant (MX and MXC) Racine (Magnum) St.Valentin (sub 100hp models, and ship St.Dizier MX gearbox production to Steyr)
