we preached this a million times over....
Maytags were "Dependable"....emphasis on dependable....not overly great on washing, extraction, rinsing etc....
for the most part, if you under loaded them, they did a sufficient job...
but the dependable came from 'giving in' to the load....too heavy of a load, the belt would slip, and sacrifice cleaning to save the machine.....
machines like Frigidaire, Kenmore, Whirlpool, GE, Speed Queen powered through anything you threw at them...
no one machine was perfect for everyone....as described to me once from a service tech...it is based on what you do.....white collar workers, with just shirts and slacks, a Maytag would be fine....but if you were a blue collar worker, that could mean heavy twills and denim...a GE or Kenmore was selected
actually these blue collar guys, yes men, would select a Norge....of any machine out there for the time frame, it was the only one that offered a full 1 horsepower motor....
most Maytags were almost twice the price of a GE or Kenmore....