Definitely not an Alliance. After Raytheon sold off their laundry business (Amana and Speed Queen), Amana went to something called Goodman Industries and Speed Queen was out of the home laundry business for a while, only doing commercial stuff. So what you have there is a Goodman built Amana with a Maytag label. For some reason which I cannot immediately remember, Goodman also supplied machines to GE and Maytag ( I believe it was due to production issues at their own factories - in GE's case it might have been a labor strike). They looked the same as the current Alliance built Speed Queens, but they couldn't be more different. I bought an Amana unit in 2000 and as the previous comments support, it lasted three years because of the main tub seal issue. Sometime around 2002, Maytag bought Amana, which in many ways made the problem worse. Maytag repairmen had no idea how to fix the Goodman built Amanas. In my case, they replaced the spin bearing three times in two years. Then when the Maytag trained repairman came to finally try and replace the faulty main tub seal, he spent 6 hours and had the machine entirely apart, concluding that he couldn't fix the unit. End of story was that the retailer, a local outfit ended up taking the machine back and replacing it with a different brand. The matching dryer (also Goodman built) however, performed well and lasted 15 years with no repairs. But then I'm not that rough on dryers and hang a lot of my laundry outside.
Alliance put Speed Queen back into the home laundry business sometime around 2006.
