New Color?

jeffcat · Feb 17, 2015

Depot today and the new lawn tractors are on the floor. MTD Cadets with Kohler Courage engines and plastic hoods. Total restyle of the hood too.What is stunning is the Color! Golden yellow or prarie yellow? It looks darker than Safety yellow, Get a load of the color in the two shots.

Jason1Pa · Feb 17, 2015

I just cant get over they style of some of these newer tractors. Looks like some kind of mutation.

rbhuntn · Feb 17, 2015

Careful it could be a Decepticon

Better call Optimus Prime to check it out

Wile E · Feb 18, 2015

I think the cub cadet Yanmar compact diesels are the same color.

Mike M · Feb 18, 2015

Kohler courage engines ?
I'm sorry but I still don't have enough courage to try Kohler engines anymore ! I really like the Kawasaki engines. Honda's have a very good reputation too but I don't have any equipment with them , only cars.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2015

Sense 1961 when the first Cub Cadetts hit the market they have really gone down hill, in quality and class. In the mower business they are refered to as glorified Murrays.

T in NE · Feb 18, 2015

It ain't even a Murray, it's an MTD!

W_B · Feb 19, 2015

(quoted from post at 14:07:44 02/18/15) Sense 1961 when the first Cub Cadetts hit the market they have really gone down hill, in quality and class. In the mower business they are refered to as glorified Murrays.

Up until MTD bought Cub Cadet they were the class of the industry. Even the ones built by Cub when they were alllowed to operate separately from MTD are pretty good. They are still miles ahead of the new ones today. I wouldn't trade my 1970s model 86 (the low end of the line for that time) for any new big box MTD. The 86 is one of the rarer models, with only a little over 5,000 being made over a 4 year production.

That said I have used MTDs for regular mowing duty for many years and have gotten pretty good service for the price, although anything can and does go wrong at any time. My primary now is a Husqvarna with a two cyl. Courage and it's been very good, no issues in two years, and it had 500 hrs. on it when I got it.

L.Fure · Feb 19, 2015

Looks like egg yoke yellow to me. I have to agree about quality since MTD took over the Cub. Even the John Deere's are slipping compared to what they once were.

Dan Richardson · Feb 23, 2015

The way I heard it from a John Deere dealer. Cub Cadet went to MTD then the JD's for home use followed. MTD bought out Kohler so Briggs engines were used in the Deere's and Cadets. I think MTD owns Briggs now.

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