My wife is ready to pull the trigger on the Electrolux, and this is one of the reasons. Miele is not a nationally known name brand around here or anywhere else I have lived or visited recently. Electrolux has the largest capacities in the industry in both washer and dryer, and their top of the line has the steam clean features not often found on other brands, along with these super gentle cycles. They are not cheap though, and due to price contracting agreements with the US resellers you will NOT get any better prices by shopping around as all vendors have to sell at the specified price from Electrolux. They did have a 10% rebate going for a month or so back in March but that is dead now.

We will take another look around for local distributor of the Miele and give the once over if we can find it. But probably saving our pennies for the Electrolux.