Where Mahindra stops being the cheap alternative and starts being a real utility tractor: 62 turbocharged, intercooled, common-rail horsepower, a 15-speed with an optional power shuttle, 5,952 lb of rear lift and an air-conditioned cab on the option list. $43,189 open station.
1.24 PTO hp per $1,000 of list price
As published by the maker
On the price: The maker publishes one starting price for this series rather than a figure per model, and this is the cheapest model in it.
Lift figures are the maker's and are quoted at whichever point the maker chose; the about page explains why two loaders with the same number do not lift the same pallet.
Comes with
From owner discussion and long-term write-ups
Gathered from owner reports
Two owner accounts exist and they pull in opposite directions. One bought into the brand at this size deliberately, having used gear, shuttle, power shuttle and hydrostatic transmissions over the years, and says the value is real - a great deal more tractor for the money than the established brands, on the condition that the dealer is solid, because the support network is not. His practical advice is transmission-specific and firmly held: for loader work take power shuttle or hydrostatic, because six hours of loader cycles on a borrowed plain shuttle left his clutch leg finished. The other account is an owner whose machine was out of action with a broken pin inside the loader lever linkage, struggling to get his Mahindra dealer to identify the part at all.
Summarised from public owner discussion, not from testing. Nothing here was measured by this site, and a report that recurs is not the same as a defect rate.
Cross-shopped against
Same brand or same size, nearest in price
Mahindra
The biggest tractor Mahindra sells below the 7000s: 71 turbocharged, intercooled, common-rail horsepower, 61 at the PTO, and 5,952 lb of rear lift. It ships with the 15F/15R electronic power shuttle as standard rather than as an option, which is why the open station starts near $48,204.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Mahindra
Turbocharging is what separates this from the 5145 it shares a frame with: same 166 cu in four-cylinder, same 12F/12R synchro shuttle, but 55 hp and 47 at the PTO instead of 45 and 38. Dealer books put it near $37,333 - the $32,462 the 5100 series advertises is the 5145's.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Mahindra
Cheapest twelve-speed synchro shuttle in this catalog: $32,462 buys 45 naturally aspirated horsepower, 12F/12R with a forward-reverse shuttle, 3,748 lb of rear lift and a 3,100 lb loader. Turbocharging arrives only on the 55 hp 5155, and the 5100 series has no cab at all.
Spec sheet & owner notes