The Case IH Quadtrac 715, the powerful 778-horsepower flagship tractor launched just over a year ago, has secured two prestigious Red Dot Design Awards in 2025. The tractor received honors in both the ‘Commercial Vehicles: Product Design’ and the ‘Innovative Design’ categories, underscoring its combination of cutting-edge aesthetics and technical advancement.
The Red Dot Design Award is one of the world’s largest and most respected design competitions, attracting over 18,000 entries annually from professionals, companies, and organizations across more than 70 countries. Winners are chosen by an international jury based on outstanding design qualities that encompass functionality, sustainability, innovation, and visual appeal.
When introduced in 2023, the Quadtrac 715 brought a fresh, bold look to Case IH’s Quadtrac lineup, earning its first Red Dot award in the Commercial Vehicles section under Product Design. The award criteria recognize not only the tractor’s visual design but also its performance and sustainable features.
In addition, the Quadtrac 715 triumphed in the newly established Innovative Design ‘metacategory,’ which rewards breakthroughs in technical optimization, novel materials, form, or usage. Judges highlighted the tractor’s innovative Heavy-Duty Suspension system, engineered to enhance operator comfort and boost work efficiency in demanding agricultural conditions.
These accolades add to the Quadtrac 715’s growing list of honors since launch, including the ASABE AE50 Award for agricultural innovation, the Good Design Award 2023, the iF Design Award, the EIMA Technical Innovation award for its suspension technology, the Gold Medal at Agrotech 2025 in Poland, and the Tractor of the Year 2025 title.
David Wilkie, CNH’s Head of Industrial Design, praised the achievement, stating, “‘Breaking Limits’ defines the Quadtrac—not only in power and capacity but also in capability and efficiency, enabling farmers to do more throughout every season. These awards show how we are also ‘Breaking Limits’ in tractor design.”
Wilkie credited the Oak Brook, Illinois-based in-house design team—Eric Jacobsthal, John Piper, and Jesse Gonzales—for their successful fusion of purposeful aesthetics with practical engineering. “I’m proud that their groundbreaking work, especially the integration of the Heavy-Duty Suspension, has been recognized with these two Red Dot awards,” he added.
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