Product review (5 stars): Want clean clothes and a rugged reliable washer or do you want something cool looking with sorry performance that doesn't last?
The washing machine you wished you had purchased.  When our 15 year old Kenmore needed $500+ of repairs, we chose to replace.  My due diligence sources were appliance repairmen, professional home cleaners, and families that wash clothes constantly.  Here's today's market: those gorgeous, and pricey, front loaders you see in Home Depot, Lowe's, and the fancy showrooms have  a couple of problems they don't want to talk about. The first one is a deal killer: they don't get your clothes clean. 15 gallons of water in a cycle is insufficient, and probably the reason LG, Samsung, and all the rest want to add something to make your clothes smell nice; it masks the fact that your clothes are not clean.  This Speed Queen machine has a 30 gallon maximum capacity. The second issue with the front loaders is that a lot of them leak.  Silly me: I thought we were washing clothes, not the laundry room floor. Don't take my word for it: read the reviews. In the meantime, go to a Laundromat if you want to see a front loader that really works: it'll likely be a Speed Queen, and the front door latch is built like one on a miniature submarine. Before the conservationists, which I consider myself to be one of,  jump on me, a 411: our water problem in this country is primarily caused by politics, specifically by not pricing water at its real cost as a resource, like gasoline, that must be obtained, refined, and delivered.  California is Ex. 1, and I use it only because it's so big and the problem is now so big even the professional deniers know the state is in a world of hurt.  Water law allows a first taker from a river to take as much as they want at a subsidized price without regard to the efficiency of use, and too bad for the downstream users.  So $200 worth of water can be used to raise $100 worth of crops.  This is a great plan.  LA & Phoenix are arid climates, really deserts, but politics made them green. Fine; short their real estate markets.  And then are the cities that still do not yet have water meters on their customer's homes. When these problems become part of conservation policy analysis, we can continue this conversation.  Until then get off the backs of people washing clothes in old style washing machines because they were raised to have clean clothes instead of having status fashion statement appliances.  And people that like to buy Speed Queens because they are manufactured in the United States by its citizens.  And while you're looking around, go to a Laundromat if you want to see a front loader that really works: it'll likely be a Speed Queen.  This machine runs like a Lexus, everything about it screams "I was designed and built to do what I do, and nothing else".  And it does.