Product review (4 stars): I'm hard to please but so far happy.
First of all my attempt to purchase this was a challenge. One national retailer had an excellent price but although not mentioned on the web site as such it was a WEB only deal and the starting price of $629 was actually $699 in the store.  The additional special savings to reduce it to $535 only worked if you had their credit card although they said it would also work if you applied for one....that was a bait and switch as it came with no price guaranty. While I have purchased from this retailer often in the past this will be my last purchase.  Dealing with the mafia would have been easier.  I got the $629 price walking in the door at Lowes.

While I have only washed two loads they were both challenges and I am very happy with the results.  To those who have criticized this washer in other reviews, one suggestion, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!

This is a new technology washer and it works different. The cycles operate in a manner that you have not heard before and they will seem strange.  For example the tub seems to drain after a cycle but then the pump seems to run afterward.  The tub is suspended differently so when it spins the washer moves around a lot as if it were slightly out of balance so put it on a solid floor and not pushed up tight against something. The tub does not fill with water but that doesn't matter if you follow the instructions and load it right, because the agitator plate seems to roll the clothes up, down and around.  It does tend to knot things up a little, live with it.  Does it cause wrinkles? Yes, especially if you set it to the highest spin cycle to get it the driest. I had no wrinkles that didn't smooth out in the dryer. As far as lint,another complaint of others, I never found my old washer did a very good job of that either but the dryer took care of it just fine always, that's why a dryer has a lint filter.

I have only ran two loads and both were tests. I also have not used IE detergent yet as I still have a little cold water liquid Tide left.  Since the cautions against using regular detergent deal with over sudsing I simply used less and had no problems.  The first load was a medium load and it violated the Maytag suggestions as it mixed clothing types.  The load included Dockers, blue jeans, dress shirts, socks and under garments. Nothing was overly soiled and all came out just fine.  The Dockers, blue jeans and dress shirts were wrinkled and the shirts were twisted but all came out fine in the dryer. I ran the load at "Normal" setting and reduced the temperature to "Cold".

My second load was a queen sized, quilt/comforter that was about 2 years old and had not been washed as it would not fit in my old washer and I hadn't taken it to a laundromat.  I ran it as a bulky load and set the temperature to "cool", it came out great. While large and bulky I checked the load part way through due to all those reviews that suggested that some items never even got wet.  When I checked the load part way through the cycle it was completely soaked!

I had a couple of concerns after reading all of the comments on the WEB and reading the manual online at the Maytag site but I figured I could move it to a rental if it didn't work for me.  One of my biggest concerns is that I have lots of iron in my water and if I wash in anything other than "Cold" water I can get massive rust stains on my clothes.  Someplace in the manual I read that even with "Cold" settings the washer my add hot water.  While that may be true I kept checking the hot hose during the cold load and it never warmed, so if you wash "Cold" like I do I can offer that in the "Normal" setting manually adjusted to "Cold" I used no hot water.  When I ran the second load with the quilt I used the "Bulky" setting and adjusted the temperature to "Cool" and the soil setting to "Light".  I was trying to determine if I could use this as an alternative solution to my iron stain problem.  I checked the tub part way through the wash cycle and the water temperature was not warm enough to cause the iron oxidization that I had experienced even in the warm settings on my old washer.

While two loads isn't a long history, both of these loads were out of the norm and I was very pleased with the results.  Unless future loads uncover problems not yet apparent I give this washer a definite thumbs up. One last thing....READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!