CLAAS LEXION

The Lexion is the combine with which Claas has occupied the top of the class since 1995: the successors to the Dominator and Mega with the APS hybrid threshing system – an accelerator ahead of the threshing drum – and in the big models the two Roto Plus separation rotors instead of straw walkers, built in Harsewinkel and in Omaha, Nebraska, for North America, where the machines ran as Cat Lexion until 2002. The type logic: the three-digit types of the first generation (405 to 480) and of the 500, 600 and 700 series give the generation in the hundreds digit and the size in the last digits – 480, 580, 600 and 770 the top models with rotor separation, 540, 560, 650 and 660 the walker machines – since 2019 the four-digit logic 5000 to 8000 applies, in which the 5000s and 6000s carry walkers and the 7000s and 8000s rotors; TT marks the Terra Trac crawler undercarriage, Montana the hillside-levelling version, C the equipment level. The engines came from Caterpillar (C9 to C13) in the early and Mercedes-Benz (OM 502 LA V8, OM 470 and OM 473) in the later models.

Sources: SpecCodex-Register: Kennwerte der Modelle Claas Lexion, Claas (Hersteller, Harsewinkel)