We have already met the first MB-trac, the 65/70 of 1972, and then the later versions of the four-cylinder tractors that gradually evolved from then until 1991. This time, we turn our focus onto what is probably the most iconic generation of MB-trac, the more powerful six-cylinder models.
These tractors took the principles introduced by the early machines and then scaled it up with more power and a larger cab and load platform. This produced a line of three models – the design of which, to many people, is what the MB-trac will always be associated with.
It is hard to over emphasise just how different that first MB-trac 65/70 was back at its introduction to the farming public back in 1972. With its equal-size wheels, four-wheel drive, centrally mounted cab, and rear load platform, this was a brand-new concept when taken together as one machine.
Built by Daimler-Benz at its Gaggenau factory in Germany, under the Mercedes-Benz trade name, the early machine soon gave way to a range of three models by the end of the 1970s. However,
