Tom does not hate Maytag. In fact I very much like the conventional washers which both grandmothers had. I do  not, however,  let Maytag automatics ride on the reputation of their conventional washers. The famous Gyrators were not shaped or sized properly for the narrow tub. Maytag sold their automatics on the basis of the agitation in the conventional machines, but it was not the same. Maytag Automatics only got good turnover with the advent of the Power Fin Agitator which is shaped much differently so as to pull the load down instead of mostly batting it back and forth in the narrow tub.