The intelligent SAME Galileo system wasn’t just a big hit with Bologna visitors but also with the Tractor of the Year jury, which presented the concept with a design award. Developed by engineers at the Italian Treviglio facility, the cab concept impressed judges the following year at the 2001 Agritechnica, from where the Galileo returned to Italy with one of the German show’s prestigious silver medals.

Previewed in 1999, the auto-levelling Galileo cab on the SAME Rubin 200 tractor raised plenty of eyebrows at the Italian EIMA farm machinery show in 2000. We dust off the shelf to find out what happened to the auto-levelling cab concept