This thread really belongs in Contemporary, having to do with a modern cleaner. I will say this though, I do not think this is the best machine you can get in the United States today, unless you're looking to buy an overpriced package of brightly colored plastic. If I were going to buy a new machine today in the USA, I would look first and likely wind up with one of the Tacony Tandem Air machines (Riccar Radiance / Simplicity Synchrony / Maytag M020R). Second look machines would be like the Hoover 100TH Anniversary Wind Tunnel Self Propelled, which is not that bad of a cleaner for the price tag. There are much better machines to be had for a much smaller price tag.

At the end of the day though, it's whatever floats your boat.

Josh - I think you started a bit of a barney going here lol - The Americans generally don't like Dysons anywhere near as much as the Brits do, and I think you may get a few more negative comments about it. To me, it looks the same as the UK DC41.

Many Americans are brand loyal to US brands like Riccar/Simplicity/Tacony/Kirby/Maytag/Eureka etc, and with Dyson being as expensive in the US as they are here, and with them being British, they are not high on the list of loved brands over there.

It might be cheap quality and mass produced in the Far East, but Dyson still has the cheek to charge more for his vacs than most Miele vacs cost here in the UK, and I know which I would sooner buy. Its a very sad fact that Dyson has become a greedy business tycoon now who is more interested in lining his own pockets and those of his shareholders, than producing decent quality products. He moved production to Malaysia to cut down on manufacturing costs, but who benefitted from this? Certainly not the customer, nor the workers he sacked in England when he shut down the production factory here. This is now the case for many companies who used to manufacture in the UK, they mostly manufacture their shoddy goods in China now, and the lack of quality control shows, when items break down within a year or so of being new.

I wanted a new free standing microwave combi oven to replace my 8 year old LG Wavedom which has a broken grill and looked a loads of them online. Could I find a single one that wasn't made in China? 90% of them are now made in China and destined to pack up within a couple of years, and the others are mostly made in some other Far East country like Vietnam, Korea or Thailand, with the exception of Miele, NEFF and the few others that are still made in Europe, but these tend to be integrated appliances.

I was surprised to buy a new Philips shaver though the other week and it was made in The Netherlands! Bravo, something not made in China lol 

Ah - but a Sebo Felix hasn't got any cyclones, and in this day and age, the more cyclones you've got the better!

Got to finally try one today and, well it's OK. It seems marginally better than the dc41, but I could still rattle off at least 5 different modern designs that span several models that IMO would clean far better.

Is it bad? No, it does clean better than most bagless vacuums I can think of that are presently on the market.

I am afraid that I won't be buying any new dysons though, especially if despite the high price paid initially they proceed to release something new which is better only a short time down the road. I don't like the "Apple" mentality dyson seem to be slowly adopting.

Scott