I have been a Choice subscriber for years, I think they generally give good advice.

The latest test result doesn't include a Speed queen but they still have an article "Washing Machines to Avoid" which rates the previous Speed Queen as the number 1 washing machine to avoid. There is a link to the (now discontinued) model's test results. They are only for subscribers so I won't divulge them here, but it was poor for dirt removal, spin efficiency, very poor water efficiency, poor choice of cycles and features. Main positives were good rinsing and quiet. Reading between the lines, I think they seemed a bit shocked such an expensive machine could perform so poorly. I don't think it will hurt SQ's (small) sales - people buy them BECAUSE they use loads of water and aren't new fangled, which is also why they don't wash all that well. People also buy them because they were pissed off at the short life they got from some other brand and want to pay more to get a better washer. Good luck with that.

I don't know how different these machines really are from the old Speed Queen Marathons, but the couple of them I worked on years ago didn't impress me. Not particularly durable despite the sales hype and the extreme price. (Here they cost about double the price of a basic Miele front loader, about 3 to 4 times the cost of a basic Bosch front loader.)

The link below is to Choice's "Washing Machines to Avoid" article, which is public, NOT subscriber-only.