JCB 8000 Series – specifications
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The 8000 series is the largest Fastrac range from JCB. The Fastrac is a high-speed tractor whose models mostly reach 65 km/h and which differs from conventional tractors through a sprung chassis with multi-link axles; all models use hydropneumatic suspension at the rear.
The series was introduced in 2005: the 8250 had an 8.3-litre Cummins engine rated at 250 PS and a continuously variable transmission that allowed 65 km/h, and it remained the only Fastrac with CVT and a Cummins engine. In 2011 the 8280 with 282 PS and the 8310 with 310 PS followed, both with an 8.4-litre AGCO Sisu Power engine with SCR exhaust treatment and a Vario CVT built on Fendt technology (V-tronic) with GPS compatibility; the 8280 replaced the 8250.
In practice the range combines drawbar pull for heavy tillage with the ability to travel quickly on the road between farm sites and fields, which suits contractors and large farms with scattered land.
JCB – other models: the collective page of farm equipment outside the named ranges, from the Fastrac 145 and 155-65 through the 2135, 3185 and 3230 Xtra to the 4160
This page gathers the JCB farm machines the register could not assign to a named range – above all the Fastrac, the tractor with which the backhoe-loader maker from Rocester in Staffordshire entered agriculture in 1991, and the Agri telehandlers with which JCB shaped the farm-loader market. The type logic of the Fastrac: the early types 145 and 155-65 give the hp class (and the top speed in km/h), the 2000 and 3000 ranges of the 2000s the series in the first digit and the power in the following ones (2135 about 135 hp, 3230 about 230 hp), Xtra the equipment line; the 4000 (4160 to 4220) and 8000 (8250 to 8330) ranges since 2005 and 2014 follow the same logic with stepless transmission. The Fastrac is a systems tractor with full suspension, disc brakes and central cab that is the only tractor approved for 70 km/h. The telehandlers give capacity and lift height in the digits – 531-70 3.1 t to 7 m, 536-70 3.6 t to 7 m, 560-80 6 t to 8 m – Agri, Agri Super and Agri Pro the equipment lines. The engines come from AGCO Power (Sisu) in the Fastrac 4000 and 8000, from Perkins and JCB (Dieselmax, EcoMax) in the others.
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The register lists here 130 versions with 12.9 to 185 kW from three- to six-cylinders of 784 to 8,268 cm³, unladen weights from 840 to 11,870 kg, gross weights from 1,360 to 16,000 kg, lengths from 2,980 to 6,030 mm and widths from 1,520 to 2,600 mm.
The Fastrac is the tractor of contractors and haulage farms in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia; the Agri telehandlers are market leaders of their class in Europe.
On used Fastracs, operating hours, suspension and brakes (disc brakes take road wear), transmission (powershift or stepless), engine and electronics count, on the telehandlers boom, wear pads, hydraulics and axles; parts run through JCB dealers.
Sources: SpecCodex register, model data: JCB (weitere Modelle), JCB (Hersteller, Rocester)
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Other models in this series
3185 Fastrac
3200 XTRA
3220-65 FASTRAC
3230 XTRA
327HST
335HST
360 Turbo
4160
4190
4220
4220 FASTRAC
5 UW 550-80
Sources: Manufacturer documentation, jcb.com (retrieved August 2026) · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) (retrieved October 2026) · fwi.co.uk (retrieved October 2026) · Values adopted and presented in our own form; changes from the source are possible. · Data sources and cross-checks
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