new-Maytag mystery

[norgenocker]

I was just in Home Depot and peered in the glass window of new Maytag top loader--huge tub, with only the tiniest thing you might call an agitator at the bottom. How does this machine work?

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Ahhhh, The Maytag Bravos...

It works similar to the F&P washer but its a Whirlpool Cabrio with the name changed to protect the innocent... It will alternately fill and spin the tub to a point then just fill. Washing is done by running and reversing the disc at the bottom while the tub moves around. One of these days, I'm going to have to video one doing it's thing thru the glass lid. The first washer of that style without a proper agitator I can remember was actually a Sanyo washer from way back when.

Whirlpool has alot of time and money invested in this design as the current direct drive washer design will go away in 2010 due to the govt. energy standards. The Cabrio/Bravos will be their bread and butter after that.

RCD

 

[johnb300m]

so the standard agitator washer is dead in 2010?

 

[laundromat]

Maytag

---makes great margaritas!!!!!!

 

[jeffg]

Looking at charts for 2007, how do the Cabrios, Bravos etc qualify as energy saving? At least current models use more energy than most other washers, direct drive or otherwise:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/eande/appliances/clwasher.htm

We just replaced a Cabrio 6200 (annual kWh: 464) with a direct drive Speed Queen AWS76 (annual kWh: 445). The differences in performance, speed etc are like night and day.

If Whirlpool is making Cabrio their bread and butter, the company will eventually starve to death. There's no way major hotel chains, commercial laundromats etc can put up with half-washed sheets, towels and clothing.

 

[shanonabc]

I did a video of our F&P AquaSmart... Follow the link

 

[stainfighter]

agree with Jeff G...

there just isn't enough turnover. The bottom of the load looks like it will be shredded even more than the infamous Shredmore design (?). It doesn't appear like you overloaded your Aquasmart either - which the average Joe or Jane typically does (!).

 

[thomasortega]

... technically tumbling is the best technology.
Cabrio/Bravos, Calypso (collapse), and all those HE toys are bullshit.
Cabrio spends more o the same water as a front loader..

So... where´s the different stuff whirlpool promissed some years ago? a giant blender?

 

[norgenocker]

I think I watched

the same bra sit on the top for five minutes.

 

[shanonabc]

LOL... It was only white shirts in the wash LOL...

 

[shanonabc]

Also, Even with overloaded loads I have found that it sorts them out and gets decent turnover or as F&P call it "blooming"

 

[tomturbomatic]

The Cabrio/Bravos will be their bread and butter after that.

More like hardtack & lard

 

[andrewinorlando]

With us "laundry-o-philes" in this group, we can certainly find cause to pick apart just about any design out there and think they're crap compared to our beloved top loaders of days gone by. But the average washer-buying Joe or Jane could care less. They throw the clothes in, turn it on, and the machine shits them out when it's done. End of story. Whirlpool (and F&P, too) have had some pretty good success with this design/machine, so I think we can expect to see them around for a while. Whether or not they are more efficient than a traditional top loader doesn't seem to matter, but they are certainly more expensive, and larger, than any traditional top loader. Some members here have them, and are very pleased with their performance, just as I've been with the Calypso for 7 years now. They both seem to do what they're supposed to do and do it well. It's the wave of the future folks, get used to it. And save those old Filter Flos, belt drive Whirlys and Maytags from their deaths. They're the last of their kind. Almost like when the dinosaurs went extinct!! Very sad.

 

[bobbyd32l]

I think that the Cabrio has very good turn over. Mine does. Here is a video that I took a while back:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=977346913539657855&q=Whirlpool+Cabrio&ei=bIM5SPHSLYqS-gHo__DhAw&hl=en

 

[DADoES]

I like my Calypso. I washed a pillow several days ago that's labeled "spot clean only" (cotton and polyester construction). It turned out very well. If I was restricted to only one toploader, I'd choose the Calypso (at this point in time of not yet having used my Neptune TL). As much as I like my F&P IWL12, Calypso is more versatile in handling large/bulky items.

 

[johnb300m]

how's the wear and tear on clothes in the Cabrios?

 

[sudsmaster]

Consumer Reports, for what it's worth, gave the Bravos very high ratings. I believe it was the top rated top loader, and near the top in the overall ratings as well.

 

[alanh]

Andrew said: "And save those old Filter Flos..."

In case some of y'all missed by post in the vintage forum, I have a 1983 Filter-Flo that needs rescuing.

http://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/THREADS/VINTAGE/17133x3.htm