It is arduous to consider Caterpillar with out its trademark yellow, however the first Cats have been in truth gray and crimson.
To honor that previous, Caterpillar is marking its 100th anniversary in 2025 with a brand new video appearing scenes of antique apparatus and trendy fashions, in addition to debuting a limited-edition collection of development apparatus with a different “Centennial Gray” paint colour. (You’ll view the video on the finish of this tale.)
The limited-edition Centennial Gray machines will be displayed at make a choice anniversary celebrations and business presentations, like closing month’s Global of Concrete the place the corporate’s sales space featured a 305 CR compact excavator within the particular gray colour scheme. They are going to even be introduced on the market at make a choice dealerships.
A Cat Centennial Gray CR 305 Mini Excavator was once displayed ultimately month’s Global of Concrete 2025.Apparatus Global
The primary trendy gadget to get the Centennial Grey was once a D3 dozer, which includes a 104-horsepower Cat C3.6 engine and has an working weight of 20,640 kilos.
The limited-edition machines additionally characteristic particular markings denoting Cat’s 100-year anniversary and a commemorative internal plate.
Cat Centennial Gray D6 XE dozerCaterpillar
The corporate says different fashions getting the limited-edition colour might additionally come with:
- Compact, small and medium wheel loaders
- Backhoes
- Skid steers
- Compact tune loaders
- Small and medium dozers
- Mini, small, medium and massive excavators
- Motor graders
The ones enthusiastic about buying such a commemorative machines will have to touch their Cat sellers for availability.
Cat Centennial Gray D8 dozerCaterpillar
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To additional have fun its centennial, Caterpillar posted a new video on-line known as “Cat Trial 14: After Hours” that showcases antique, new and futuristic apparatus with a “Evening on the Museum” theme.
A father and daughter seek advice from the “Cat Innovation Museum,” the place evening falls and Cat machines become independent from from their glass enclosures and cross to paintings. The machines constitute Cat’s business, marine and electric-power merchandise from the previous and provide and a few nods to the long run.
Apparatus showing within the video comprises the Caterpillar Twenty Expo, which was once an exposition gadget in 1926 of the brand new corporate’s first 20-horsepower crawler tractor. Audience additionally get a glimpse of the “Energy Loader” contraption, designed to “carry to lifestyles a real-world model of the long-lasting exoskeleton from the ‘Extraterrestrial beings’ film franchise,” consistent with the Hacksmith’s Energy Loader venture site. In contrast to the film model of the gadget, it’s constructed upon the chassis of a Cat compact tune loader.
To observe “Cat Trial 14: After Hours,” take a look at Caterpillar’s video beneath:
