This time last year we pitted JCB’s Fastrac 4220 against a Fendt 724 Vario to see just how close the high-speed specialist’s in-field performance could get to that of a top-spec conventional tractor.

Founded in 1945, JCB is synonymous with tractors, excavators, tipping trailers, the whole nine yards. But JCB is also responsible for the fastest tractor in the world, a feat worthy of the Guinness ...

Quick, smooth and versatile it might be, but for all the JCB Fastrac’s virtues it has been increasingly hobbled by one thing – its in-cab controls. Owners and operators have watched on enviously as ...

British machinery manufacturer JCB says its new Fastrac 6000 Series tractors provide farmers with a feature-laden, highly productive power unit suited to a multitude of field and transport tasks. Some ...

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JCB has broken the record for the world’s fastest tractor. Its Fastrac Two hit a two way average of 135.91mph at Elvington Airfield in York. The run eclipses the previous record-breaking speed of ...

Anyone who has ever been in a rural area and ended up stuck behind a tractor driving down the road has wished that tractors could go the speed limit. The tractor makers over at JCB have a tractor that ...

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This comes a week after the 335hp tractor, which is JCB’s biggest ever model, was launched in its home country, the UK. Australia’s eastern states will have to wait until the New Year before the ...

A modified JCB Fastrac has set a new world tractor speed record of 135.191 mph (217.570 km/h), which was the average of two high-speed runs conducted at Elvington Airfield in the United Kingdom and ...