Product review (5 stars): Think before you buy!
Purchased this model from another vendor.  All the good things said about this machine are true and I can attest to that.  One other nice feature I find with this machine is while it is filling with water, you can rinse out those goofy plastic measuring cups that come with your liquid laundry detergents by placing the cup under the cascading waterfall entering the tub.  No more yucky goooy plastic measuring cups.  This means that you CAN OPEN THE COVER while the tub is filling with water.  No LOCKING lid to aggravate you to no end.  Other washing machines at the big box stores are there only to fill up our land fills with more junk.  Most of the new machines have electronic circuit boards that will end up in our land fills and leach all kinds of lead and harmful chemicals into our ground.  I swear foreign manufacturers have no care about how we are going to dispose of all these pieces of junk they are sending over to our country.  Speed Queen is MADE IN THE USA with American labor and American parts.  The electric controls in this machine less of a hazard to our landfills than circuit boards do and since the SQ is designed to last, there will be less of them ending up in our landfills.  Think about this before you go buy a washing machine from China, Korea, or Mexico.  Enough said.