Product review (5 stars): This is my washing machine for LIFE.
"We LOVE ours! Used to have a lowish-end Frigidaire front-loader and hated it. The smells, the mold, the clothes uselessly flopping in a tiny pool of water in the bottom of the machine. I agonized over what to buy - nothing had consistent reviews online and it left me torn. Why would some people love their washers and some not? I ended up buying the only washer I could find with consistently positive reviews: the Speed Queen Commercial top loader. It's expensive, it weighs twice as much as any other machine, it's no frills and it's not very energy-efficient. It looks like an old set someone turned in when you see it in the show room next to all the gorgeous, shiny, chromed-out colorful front-loaders. But it CLEANS OUR CLOTHES. It doesn't smell. It doesn't need to be cleaned. You can soak stuff in it and fill it with hot water for your whites. I expect it to last at least 10 years and it has incredible warranty on all the parts. No plastic parts on this baby. We've had it for almost a year now and I'll never go back to a front-loader EVER.