(This review was collected as part of a promotion.) I got this for my husband for Christmas as his other KithchenAid blender I bought him a few years ago is on its last ‘smoothie’!!  He is not one for change so my daughter decided to pull it out of the box and LOVES it, so she is making herself smoothie bowls everyday after school!..not how she is going to survive without it starting in September when she goes off to university!…it is a lot quieter than the one my husband refuses to give up!  The colour of it is nice as well!  Wish it were glass though so it would wash better…I am not a fan of plastic…and the smoothie ‘cups’ should have lids that can close the opening and come with straws!