Hitachi changing name to Landcros in early 2026

[Smiffy]

i have some hitachi and hikoki 18v cordless tools good quality i think and well made there is another brand that uses the same batterys but the make escapes me when i remember it will ad it.

Metabo and maffel use the same batteries. Both high quality brands.
And I read somewhere that the name changes are because both the Hitachi power tools and Hitachi diggers don't own the Hitachi name. They just pay for the right to use it. Would seem a fairly logical cost cutting exercise if that is the case.

 

[JD450A]

In out in our and shake it all about you do the Hi Koko and landcross all falls down

 

[charlie2]

Metabo and maffel use the same batteries. Both high quality brands.
And I read somewhere that the name changes are because both the Hitachi power tools and Hitachi diggers don't own the Hitachi name. They just pay for the right to use it. Would seem a fairly logical cost cutting exercise if that is the case.

yea metabo was the one but its only the hpt tools that seem to be the same as hitachi/hikoki.

 

[V8Druid]

i have some hitachi and hikoki 18v cordless tools good quality i think and well made there is another brand that uses the same batterys but the make escapes me when i remember it will ad it.

had a Hitachi cordless drill waaaaaay back and it was awesome .. their corded grinders always stuck the pace - best we ever used and still have a couple ...

 

[DaveDCB]

Anyway, why change something that isn’t on the face of things broken? Unless something we all don’t know about

 

[Furniss]

Local dealer is going as well apparently… added with the fact the sales guy has been utterly hopeless the last few months I think the name change is the cherry ontop.
Doubt wacker sales will be as strong when the name changes to Develon

I won't buy one

 

[Giles]

Americans don’t like Japanese names

Linkbelt aka sumitomo
Hitachi sold as John Deere in USA but that’s ending or ended

 

[JD450A]

Americans don’t like Japanese names

Linkbelt aka sumitomo
Hitachi sold as John Deere in USA but that’s ending or ended

You say that, But Hitachi, Komatsu, Takeuchi and Kubota all have good followings in the states along with Kobelco

 

[Giles]

Should say they used to not like them after pearl harbour the newer generation not as affected by that so not as bothered.

 

[Storrsy]

You say that, But Hitachi, Komatsu, Takeuchi and Kubota all have good followings in the states along with Kobelco

Yep it's not 1942 anymore but Americans are Americans!

 

[Storrsy]

Should say they used to not like them after pearl harbour the newer generation not as affected by that so not as bothered.

Haha beat me to it

 

[Lancs Lad]

You say that, But Hitachi, Komatsu, Takeuchi and Kubota all have good followings in the states along with Kobelco

Agreed and it's 80 years later if we dare mention the war ..why now?
In fact I'd say from what I see on yt they love jap stuff.

 

[6feetdown]

Lacross does sound tbf.
Highlander
Hickory
Hitak

 

[Canal Navvy]

I wonder how they would react to someone buying a Lancros and rebadging it as a Hitachi

 

[Storrsy]

So far on this thread it's been called land cross, langcross, lacrosse and lancros. Something tells me this name change isn't going to stick!

 

[JD450A]

Agreed and it's 80 years later if we dare mention the war ..why now?
In fact I'd say from what I see on yt they love jap stuff.

Glendennings (a quarry firm local to us) refused to buy any European lorries right up till the mid 2000's, running a staple of fodens, ERFs and I believe a few Bedfords. One of the families older generation was a POW in Germany and apparently that's where that stemmed from.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Glendennings (a quarry firm local to us) refused to buy any European lorries right up till the mid 2000's, running a staple of fodens, ERFs and I believe a few Bedfords. One of the families older generation was a POW in Germany and apparently that's where that stemmed from.

As a flip side to that, Friend of mine is part of the HBH Woollacots Dynasty (South west electrical goods retailers).
That was also founded by a POW, except this one was a German who was a POW in Bude

 

[craig]

Glendennings (a quarry firm local to us) refused to buy any European lorries right up till the mid 2000's, running a staple of fodens, ERFs and I believe a few Bedfords. One of the families older generation was a POW in Germany and apparently that's where that stemmed from.

A lot of drivers call MAN`s Hitlers revenge

 

[Storrsy]

As a flip side to that, Friend of mine is part of the HBH Woollacots Dynasty (South west electrical goods retailers).
That was also founded by a POW, except this one was a German who was a POW in Bude

Bought a Bosch tumble drier from them a few weeks back- thoroughly decent knowledgeable service- as you would expect from the Germans

 

[Steve]

Can’t say I am a fan of the Hikoki power tools since the KKR takeover so if that is anything to go on I am likely to be Landcros intolerant