On Mar 17, 12:26*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
From the Wall Street Journal:

"In 1996, top-loaders were pretty much the only type of washer around, and
they were uniformly high quality. When Consumer Reports tested 18 models, 13
were "excellent" and five were "very good." By 2007, though, not one was
excellent and seven out of 21 were "fair" or "poor." This month came the
death knell: Consumer Reports simply dismissed all conventional top-loaders
as 'often mediocre or worse.' "

Demise of top-loaders blamed on government regulations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...57620221271767...

It's for the children.

You might want to ask why "Consumer Reports" tests only the models it
want to test and doesn't test the models it doesn't want to test like
Hilti for tools for example. Which 18 laundry models did it test? Do
you have the list? I bet Speed Queen is not among them. This whole
"Consumer Reports" testing BS stinks like fish in Denmark if you ask
me.