You just have to read more closely with tractors sold to consumers and not farmers.
One example is a new Deere 4005 compact-utility tractor. Deere's main ad shows it as having a 41.5 horsewpower engine and does NOT say it's a 41.5 horsepower tractor. When you look at the Deere specs, it shows:
Real farm tractors are still rated by PTO and drawbar horsepower. Figures for compact utility and garden tractors have alway been "consumer" rated - and often done so in a fictitious way.
Nebraska Testing put an end to wild claims by farm tractor makers.
SAE net horsepower also put an end to many wild claims in cars and small trucks around 1973.
But with the class-action settlement with lawn and garden stuff- I think things now will be even more confusing, not less.
With compact utility tractors it seems - it's still "anything goes" with advertising and which figures they want to stick up front. When
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