For reasons which defy, well, reason, I really want one of the new Frigidaire top-loaders. I've never cared a whit for any of the impeller machines, but I am taken with this big, cheap hunk of plastic. I'm the ultimate die-hard front-loader guy, and I love my 2010 Frigidaire, so the impeller machine would definitely be a novelty item for the laundry room, to be used only occasionally. I want to fill it with a load of greatly-stained kitchen whites and see how things emerge.
I like that it doesn't have a hanging suspension like other impeller machines. If they've basically kept the same suspension, etc., as the indexing tub 2006 I once owned, it will spin the most unbalanced loads you can imagine.
I'm afraid if I wait for the rating from Consumer Reports, then I'll never buy it, LOL.
Malcolm---Frigidaire doesn't exactly roll out the red carpet for their new products, do they? No interior shots, nothing. Way to pinch those pennies, Frigidaire!
Oy vey.
[this post was last edited: 9/26/2012-02:11]