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Hey guys, if you go over to the Kenmore website, they have a new line of dishwashers coming out later this month. if you look in the little flash box thingy, it'll appear - click on the "learn more" button. Apparently, if you pre-order now, you can get 20% off, but it's still ridiculously expensive. Can't tell who makes them by looking at them and I'm not convinced that the design of the wash arm is going to actually work with so few holes...
Anyhoo, looks interesting...
 
An LCD touch screen? Looks like it's the new Vantage dish(washer). These new spray arms are becoming popular in Europe, too...

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LG's don't have exposed heating elements, and their models all have self-cleaning filters. I doubt whichever corporate parent owns the rights to the Turbo-Zone feature would let LG co-opt it.

Those are two features of LG dishwashers that I like. In fact, I use the 160-degree rinse a lot these days, because it doesn't add 20 minutes to the cycle, as it did with my Maytag and Frigidaire machines. The elements in LG's heat the water very quickly----wherever they're hidden.

I'll put my money on them being Whirlpool-made.
 
If these "new spray arms" that are becoming popular in europe have't been marketed on machines in Europe before until now, well, Frigidaire had something like that in the late 1960s and 1970s until White Consolidated bought them out and GE had something similar in the 1990s.
 
I thought the same thing Jason. List for the most expensive is like $2100. Might as well fork over the $$$ for a Miele in that case. What you say?
 
If I was so hell bent on having a dishwasher with a manual clean filter I would get the Whirlpool built machine. At least that way when it does require repair I won't have to pay the over inflated costs for parts or service.
 
A dishwasher in my house gets very heavy use, and I'm not always diligent about scraping dishes thoroughly, so the manual-clean filter is a deal-breaker for me. I'd be emptying it constantly.

I'll trade the decibel-or-two reduction in noise for a self-cleaning filter every time.

My LG (which has a self-cleaning filter) is super quiet; can barely hear it running.
 
WOW! SO ENERGY EFFICIENT!

This is crazy!
What is so "Efficient" about a dishwasher that cost this much?
It would have to last 40 years and ran 4 times a day just to catch up with your investment.
I don't see any energy "savings" here!
Crazy!
 
YES A440!

I run into this type of short-term thinking all the time in historic preservation. Replacement windows are the same way. In both cases, the chances of the item lasting long enough to pay for itself in energy savings is virtually nil.

Dave
 
Hang onto your old machines guys and girls because insanity is ruling the appliance marketplace. One big factor in these prices is the weak dollar's exchange rate. It's not your neighbor who's making most of the appliances you see for sale. I've learned that even if the cardboard box is stamped "Made in the USA", the part inside is likely to be from China or Mexico.
 

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