Product review (4 stars): Love our Panda.
We LOVE our Panda. I highly recommend this model because the spinner is included. The clothes get very close to dry with just the spin cycle.
It DOES have a funny smell for a few months after use. An odd plastic/kerosene-ish smell that really permeates the wash-room (but NOT the clothes). We put ours on a little dolly which makes filling it up with water and then moving it over to drain in the bath a simple task.
Washes clothes well. Sometimes leaves some lint on clothing (which would come off if you then used a dryer). Has saved us lots of laundromat trips and money.
Just get ready for the smell but know it will eventually fade.

UPDATE: Smell has faded to 5% after about a year. I still LOVE this machine and recommend it to anyone. We use it for our cloth diapers and now that our older son it potty training it gets a lot of use for quickly washing a few pairs of pants after an accident. Love not having to do a full big washer load.