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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by vvanders on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:08PM (#13928209)
If you think the capital costs for Tesla are bad try getting into a smaller market where tractors start at ~$150k. Kubota has been trying to go upmarket but it's not something that can be done overnight.

I'd be more curious if some of the other players(NH, Case IH, Claas, etc) could use this to their advantage. You see similar things in the CUT(Compact Utility Tractor) segment where LS/Kioti/Mahindra generally offer much more capabilities/features over Kubota and JD.

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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by unmole on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:20AM (#13929271)
> Mahindra

I had no idea Mahindraactually had a presence in the US. Can you tell me how they are generally regarded?

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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by sglane on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:51AM (#13930836)
>Can you tell me how they are generally regarded?

Below JD/Kubota/NH, above LS/Kioti.

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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by officelineback on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:56PM (#13932578)
I want to say they sponsored a NASCAR or Indycar race.
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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by scotch_drinker on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:59PM (#13933174)
Yeah this thought occurred to me as well. If I ran one of the other companies, I'd make it a marketing issue that we let farmer's hack all they want on their own tractors.
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