I have no interest either. Looks like all the other cheap mowers out there. If I were to buy a brand new mower, it definitely wouldn't be a Cub Cadet. Sorry boys, just not impressed with anything after they did away with the metal hood machines. Cyclops was still a great tractor. I just don't like all the plastic. If they had just done fiberglass it would have been fine. Even when they came back out with the metal hoods, the machine's base had taken such a drop in durability, that I have no interest. Nope, I'll keep my old machines, and I'll keep buying and fixing them up. I'll have a whole fleet (and do) for what one of those cheap Chinese pieces of crap go for.