Random Comments from the view point of Joe and Jane in Anywh
(1) KG is NEVER USED HERE with washers; but BASKETS is more common; If one polled folks of all walks of life in the USA, steet homeless to Phd; about none has ever heard of Kg's used for washer capacity.
Probably a greater percentage of folks in the UK, OZ or SA rate washers with Firkens as volume; or stones as mass.
Marketing washers with Kg is non existant in the USA.
Gobs of folks sort dirty clothes into baskets by type and color and wash when the basket is full and or then are out of clothes.
(2) DRYERS as far as dryers; the vast majority of folks who have a washer in the USA have a dryer too. In more rural areas some folks use cloths lines; some it cites do too. One cannot here in many big cities hang laundry to dry on the open porch of a giant apartment building liker folks do in some overseas cities; ie one gets evicted. Ie my apartment I lived in California had rules against this thing that one agreed to in the rental agreement. Many of us who own dryers here WILL on a weekend use a clothes line on a sunny day for big items to dry at our houses. Here this is mostly with blankets, bluejeans, rugs, big heavy stuff.
(3) NON USA folks are maybe smaller?? ; thus your items mix better??. The 16 Pairs of jeans I washed were mostly 32 to 34 waist and about 36 in length; probably average to small here in width a bit longer in length. One has gobs of folks in the USA that are obese; it think double ie 300Lbs. Thus in an oddball sense those 16 pairs of jeans might be like only 8 Giant persons; or 24 + pairs in Singapore.
Without getting into a tangent as to WHY; many folks items here are way bigger than my own stuff. There are folks whose whole DNA and stuff is all large here . ie the Potato Family drives a giant trucks ; their clothes are triple X T shirts; they are "overweight" by more than a typical Asian weighs; all their things and kids are husky sized. This has to have some bearing; ie their stuff is all giant sized; washer, dryer, clothes, trucks, refrigerator. ie one has a family of mom and dad and 2 kids and their mass is over 1000 Lbs. ie one is at the grocery store and the aisles are so tight that 2 carts/trolleys barely can pass!. ie one cannot pass Mr or Miss Potato Family in the aisle since each person is wider than the trolley.
(4) RE "American made machines have historically been shown, in this country at least, to overstate what they will hold. "
Here I only heard this after seeing this website. When I was in Japan, Singapore, Germany and New Zealand the washers I used there were smaller and held less stuff. Thus my take is this is really wild marketing claims to sell washers there and not real science. I have really never seen TV, or printed Advertising here in the USA that compares washers or mowers to non usa ones.
One of the Miele non us sites claims their machine washes 50 percent more than an American machine. The actual few 24" machines sold in the USA are smaller in size and wash less clothes, that is why the market is basically zero. Even if a Miele 24" FL machine here with pure magic can wash as much stuff as a normal 27" machine; the average person is not going to believe it based on a non usa machine; or non usa test.
On the Flip side non usa folks live and breath 24" washers; thus they can improve this form factor to the nth degree.
Joe and Jane Public here have never seen a 24" machine before. Thus this argument has no end. The average user of a washer in the USA uses a dumb basket of dirty stuff to wash as a measure and thus wants a machine to physically hold the same as the old washer.
A machine with a physically smaller drum has already a mark against it in the USA. ie folks were NOT taught to to cram stuff in a washer to be full. thus if the smaller machine really holds as much as a 27" one one has a vast education to do. Thus to sell a magical 24" machine that washes as much as a 27" machine; the average Joe wants to see solid proof. It really is a tall order; non usa folks constantly mention Kg's. Nobody here normally weighs clothes; they use a darn basket as a metric. Thus somebody here can be Joe Metric and the Kg ratings are meaningless.
(5) PRICE and Availability ; most USA folks buy locally..Many folks here just want to wash clothes and price matters. I bought the LG on sale last fall for 599 bucks. It was just an average washer here. The floor models were 3.2 to 5.2 and I got a 4.2 IEC one. It can wash 11Kg worth of stuff and is just a normal washer size. The non sale models were only 4.0 and had less featuresreleddoielsThe smaller models available locally cost less; but have less features. Ie the 249 dollar but IEC top loader was a 3.2 IEC size; But I did not want a starter basic top loader that uses a lot more water. The Front load 3.2 IEC small model on sale for 349 dollars had bad reviews.
Here I am not sure what the real answer is. There are so many variables. Even if has no meaning to others; here I still "like" to know what the actual displacement is of my lawnmower or washer.
