Product review (3 stars): Bosch 800 NEXXT
We had no washer dryer at all, so we went out one sunny day and bought a washer dryer set from Sears, they were KENMORE, NEVER AGAIN!!!
Those machines were bought just before we had a massive influx of house guests and oh yeah, our wedding.
They were out of order for the majority of the time they were in the house, 20 days or so of function and then weeks of waiting for repair man, parts and repair.
So we were eventually given new machines!!

I chose BOSCH, a reliable forward thinking brand, I've had various bosch products before with no issues, ever.
Then these beastly machines!
We got the washer and the dryer.
The dryer is fine, does it's think no issues.

I've not seen a top loader for decades before I came out to the usa (from the UK, remember the twin tubs, lol).
So of course I wasn't going to get an agitator to ruin my clothes.
The BoSCH washer has near on caused mental illness via the sheer agonizing, infuriating consistency of it's inability to balance and spin.
There's no spin cycle of itself, so you have to go through a slow and harassing process of pushing buttons, waiting, pausing, manually repositioning, wringing out and starting the spin cycle again and again and oh it's 2-3am and I still have laundry to do.
I would be better off with my late Grandmother's old twin tub, agitator included!

I cannot bear to spend more time and money on the consumer end of buying new machines, but I can tell you I am 100% looking forward to moving as we'll not be bringing this B*st*rd machine with us!!
I doubt we've saved any water with all the re-cycling (not to be confused with recycling) that we have to do to get the clothes or sheets or whatever out spun!!

The machine doesn't smell, we've never left it off with the door shut, I prop a spray bottle or something in the door to stop it closing when passing.
No other front loader I've ever owned has stunk.

If yours does stink I suggest cleaning it. This usually involves the hottest cycle or a clean cycle and a bottle of machine cleaning Clorox.
I've done that twice in 4 years due to the filthy stuff that we've put in there.
Clothes are always very clean.
We use tide free and clear and occasionally fabric softner, while generally just use dryer balls.

I llove the features of the dryer that allow you to flat dry delicates and the air dry only  (no heat) option, as I'm happy to leave a dryer on when I'm out of the house if there's no heat involved...to avoid a common cause of house fire.

I'll be putting a pulley in my new house as the laundry room ceiling is high enough...look it up, big $$$ saver on drying.