Ralph,
Most of us realize your pricing numbers are slanted, both geographially, and towards whatever inventory your dealer needed to move. I don't personally know the sales totals for each Deere model, although I'll bet some of the other posters can to verify them; but there's a heck of a lot more 2210's being sold today than there are 4010's. Why? I'll let you answer this.
But, whatever the number's are, and though my perspective may disagree with your "that of your inside the industry views", I'm sorry to say that it is you that has brought these responses on; my intentions were never to knock the 4010, nor were they to wave the flag of the 2210. However, for some time you have continued to denegrate the performance of the 2210; while at the same time elevating that of the 4010. Even worse, oftentimes this was accomplished using incorrect performance data.
These are the facts. They may be unsettling. However, they are the facts.
Past that, several comments from your last post require redress: "Those prices are cheaper than what I got from 2 different JD dealers last October. My 4010 cost $13,600 for hydro, FEL and LX4. The LX4 was $1,000. The 4010 was $300 less than a 2210 and $2,000 less than a 4110."
Very nice. Anecdotal comments. And just what they are: annecdotal. Many of us, for whatever reason, have been able to negotiate better deals. Therefore, why don't we all just agree and leave it at it, that Green has done a good job at marketing their products to us, in the process figuring clever ways of propping up that image up after the fact. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
So you can see, this can go on all night. If you continue to bash other tractors and tractors that other posters have chosen, you will continue to stir the wrath of others on this forum. It's your choice. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif