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Originally Posted by CAO65
I for one am glad Cub changed the lawn tractor look distinguishing it from the garden tractor. Some of the high end 1000 series looked liked the 2000 series giving people the perception they had a garden tractor when they did not.
Now, for "my opinion" on the old versus the new. It seems to me there are 4 major parts to a tractor: engine, transmission, deck, and frame.
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You make some interesting points, but reliability and quality are determined in the field not with Superman vs Spiderman type arguments. I know a gentleman who's been making a living for the past 25 years tilling and plowing people's gardens with a 1650. He has replaced the engine about 10 years ago, but he's still using the same tractor. The question is, would any garden tractor that Cub Cadet produces today withstand that kind of abuse not for 25 but even 10 years? Will we see today's tractors happily mowing 40 years in the future like my 1450 mows today? Time will tell , but I am skeptical.