by Nick Drew | Thu 16 May 2024
Interest Levels High for New Takeuchi ‘Duck’
It was a big surprise to encounter the Takeuchi TB370W in Paris, although there had been rumours about this model for quite some time. It was certainly a crowd pleaser at the event with many visitors pawing their way around the machine.
The machine will compete in the competitive 5-7-tonne mini wheeled excavator market, and will be up against machines from the likes of Bobcat, Volvo, Yanmar, Hyundai and Mecalac to name a few. Fans of the red & grey are sure to be delighted with this latest 3-Series offering which is largely based on the popular TB370 tracked variant.
Photo: Courtesy of TPA Magazine.
We look forward to getting “hands on” with this machine in due course, but at the moment, it appears that well-known French journalist Louis Roizard has got the scoop on the new “wheelie”. Louis is a regular at all the major machine launch press events, representing the TPA magazine, and is nearly always one of the first to get in the seat of a new model.
Louis has produced a video on the new machine, unfortunately for us, its all in French, but you’ll get the idea, check it out below.