Do these exist? We all know GE has introduced front-loaders of their own in the USA after slapping their badge on Frigidaires for a while, but I don't recall seeing any "HOTPOINTS".
Do they exist?
Do they exist?
Hotpoint (USA) Front-Loaders
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laundryshark
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Based On a Web Search...
In the Hotpoint.com Web site, I did a Search, only to bring up a list of results from the GE Appliances, as the American Hotpoint line has been absorbed into GE. Otherwise, *unless one happens to shop online,* there has yet to arrive the European Hotpoint product lines *officially* into the U.S. market.--Laundry Shark
In the Hotpoint.com Web site, I did a Search, only to bring up a list of results from the GE Appliances, as the American Hotpoint line has been absorbed into GE. Otherwise, *unless one happens to shop online,* there has yet to arrive the European Hotpoint product lines *officially* into the U.S. market.--Laundry Shark
liberator1509
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Hotpoint Absorbed?
Is this the end of US Hotpoint - perhaps GE are selling the brand rights to Merloni?
GE had a 50% share of GDA - GDA was the firm that surivived the collapse of GEC, former owners of Hotpoint, English Electric et al. IIRC when Merloni bought the GEC shares in GDA, they also retained an option to buy out GE, which has been exercised over the last few years. It is possible that part of that buy-out deal included taking on global rights to the Hotpoint brand.
Remember too that Merloni recently announced the rebranding of Aristons as Hotpoint-Aristons in Europe in order to exploit the 'global potential' of the Hotpoint brand. Perhaps the US market will see Aristons turning into Hotpoint.
Is this the end of US Hotpoint - perhaps GE are selling the brand rights to Merloni?
GE had a 50% share of GDA - GDA was the firm that surivived the collapse of GEC, former owners of Hotpoint, English Electric et al. IIRC when Merloni bought the GEC shares in GDA, they also retained an option to buy out GE, which has been exercised over the last few years. It is possible that part of that buy-out deal included taking on global rights to the Hotpoint brand.
Remember too that Merloni recently announced the rebranding of Aristons as Hotpoint-Aristons in Europe in order to exploit the 'global potential' of the Hotpoint brand. Perhaps the US market will see Aristons turning into Hotpoint.
Hotpoint still appears to be around
...but no front-loaders or anything remarkable. With the exception of Joe's noted good-cheap-ranges, their laundry products seem relegated mostly to the cheapie stuff that is too undignified for the GE badge...which says a lot.
Poking around on their meager site, I found the following entry for top-load washers. How many cycles do you prefer? Seven? Or forty-three?
Forty-three?!? Crack-heads.
Cycle 1: Normal, 12 minutes agitation, hot water, cold rinse, fast agitation, fast spin. Sunny day outside; midwestern U.S., leap-year.
Cycle 2: Normal, 11.5 minutes agitation, hot water, cold rinse, slow agitation, fast spin. Overcast; Republic of Palao, liquid detergent.
...but no front-loaders or anything remarkable. With the exception of Joe's noted good-cheap-ranges, their laundry products seem relegated mostly to the cheapie stuff that is too undignified for the GE badge...which says a lot.
Poking around on their meager site, I found the following entry for top-load washers. How many cycles do you prefer? Seven? Or forty-three?
Forty-three?!? Crack-heads.
Cycle 1: Normal, 12 minutes agitation, hot water, cold rinse, fast agitation, fast spin. Sunny day outside; midwestern U.S., leap-year.
Cycle 2: Normal, 11.5 minutes agitation, hot water, cold rinse, slow agitation, fast spin. Overcast; Republic of Palao, liquid detergent.
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Forty-one. Sorry. I can't read today, and I'm off by two, apparently.
Forty-one. Sorry. I can't read today, and I'm off by two, apparently.
veg-o-matic
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Don't feel bad, Nate. Once you hit 37 cycles, one or two more or less ain't gonna make that much difference...
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