Looks very much akin to the fantasy "EuroStar Grande" machine I envisioned.

Tell me, does the TOL model use a Rapid-Advance timer? It sure looks like it!

Perhaps it's just me but I always thought the "savings" from the Ecologic range were pretty underwhelming compared to those touted by the other manufacturers of the time. 10% something...I'm sure Hotpoint's were more like 50% something (admitedly mostly through increasing stated capacity on synthetics cycles by about 50%!).

Then again, maybe Hoovers were a little more economical to run than the competition before that?

I seem to recall the savings offered by the Classica/New Wave range following the Ecologics were somewhat more impressive!

The power of marketing, eh?

To me, it sounds like their recommendation to use "Rinse/Hold" after every meal is an attempt to "hide" the machines possibly poor baked/dried on gack removal ability. Who's with me on that one?

Besides, if you have to run the Rinse/Hold say 5-6 times before running the machine on a proper cycle, some of the dishes will be practically clean - making this a LOUSY suggestion to the homeowner (and an absolute waste of water). Machines of this era were using around 5.5L for each fill, so that would equate to around 30L of water used to "rinse" the dishes. I hope people used their economy program afterwards...

Besides, running the rinse program on many machines just spreads a ton of garbage everywhere imaginable - and will end up making some people's machine smellier (i.e. those who don't scrape plates very well.)