Any Word on NEW Riccar Canister? (getting close to end of year)

[georgect]

I'm still anxiously awaiting the new Riccar canisters said to be coming toward the end of this year.
Any word or sneak peeks when they're going to arrive?

 

[georgect]

Bump

Has any Riccar/Simplicity fans heard anything more about the posibility of new canisters coming toward the end of this year?

 

[vinvac]

George,

I have never seen or used a Riccar. One of the vacuum shops here in town sells them. They used to be a Royal Dealer.

From photo's I would assume they look like good machines and seem to offer quality tools.

Anymore, all vacuums look the same. It is hard to tell one brand from another...same with cars.

Does Riccar offer a bagless machine...???

 

[GM1982]

I don't believe there is such a thing as a new redesigned model for the Simplicity or Riccar canister lines for this year. The last check they are promoting the top of line American made units. If anything Tacony is still focusing on bringing their low and mid canister lines to production in the USA. The bread and butter is the uprights....

 

[jade_angel]

@vinvac:

AFAIK all the Tacony machines (Riccar, Simplicity, but also Carpet Pro and Fuller Brush) use bags. As such, they offer some of the best filtration around. They earn top marks on deep cleaning, too, for both canisters and uprights.

As far as all looking the same, yeah, that's true enough. Panasonic, Tacony, Miele and even Sebo are using the same basic designs for their canisters. Uprights are much the same - they're either bagged units copying the Panasonic clean-air design, or bagless mostly copying Dyson/Fantom. Most bagless canisters are Dyson workalikes, too.

The main exceptions are the old standbys - Filter Queen, Tristar and variants (Vortech Force, Patriot), Silver King, Black Knight (Air-Way/Sani-Clean clone), Royal (but only the metal uprights), Kirby, Rainbow, and in a way, the classic-styled Sanitaire and Hoover Guardsman uprights. That used to be the standard picture of "what a vacuum cleaner looks like", and now hardly anyone makes them like that anymore.

 

[dysonman1]

The new Riccar and Simplicity canisters are already here sitting in their boxes in the factory, waiting for the newly designed power nozzle to be built, then packing into the boxes. Then some have to go to the photography studio so brochures and instruction manuals can be photographed and printed. Then, a sales promotion to the dealers has to occur so they can be ordered and shipped. I'm using one of the prototypes here in the Museum on a daily basis. Anyone who comes by the Museum can 'accidentally' see the new Maytags, bagless upright, electric broom, etc. Stay at the Days Inn in St. James, and your room will be cleaned with the new Maytag. Eat at the diner, and they're vacuuming with the new canister (fits between the booths and chair legs).

 

[georgect]

Tom, you're killing me, Riccar/Simplicity NEW Canister

So Tom, do you think they'll be ready to order before the year is over?
Any sneak peak pictures?

 

[dysonman1]

They will launch at the VDTA show in Vegas in February. It takes a while to launch new products. So many things have to be in place before you can begin selling dealers on ordering them. I will say, for the vacuum collector, you'll see all kinds of things on the new Riccar/Simplicity canister that you can also find in vacuum history. You're welcome.

 

[georgect]

Thanks Tom!

Please keep us posted.
I'm really interested in the new top of the line canisters coming from Riccar.
I'll keep waiting.

 

[stricklybojack]

This topic has captured my imagination...

so i'm bumping it back up the board. TOL American made bagged canister that may match or even beat the TOL Electrolux machine? I want to know more...

 

[jade_angel]

Well, the current Riccar canisters offer better deep cleaning, IMHO, than the current Aerus TOL. The power nozzle is excellent as is the suction, airflow and filtration.

Interestingly, it turns out the current power nozzle is apparently made by Cen-Tec (CPB-100) though it looks nothing like the other Cen-Tec designs and seems to work a *lot* better. It really shakes the heck out of a carpet. I tested a Simplicity Gusto canister at a local vacuum shop, and it caused more "dancing sand" than a Kirby Sentria, Simplicity Symmetry or Wessel Werk EBK340 (Silver King). I'm not sure how indicative the "colored sand on black rug" test is, but the Gusto eliminated most of the sand in two strokes - only the Kirby matched it, even though both the Symmetry and the Silver King did what I'd call a pretty good job.

In the interest of full disclosure, the Kirby and SK were used, but both in very good condition.

I'll be very interested to see Tacony's new power nozzle design - with luck it'll be even better than the existing one.

 

[GM1982]

I would like to see what they come out with also. I do not like the current power nozzle design, but performance is excellent. That small wire in the rear of the nozzle can get caught on the furniture or under beds and rip/tear it over time. I like the L shaped power nozzles better. I want to like Simplicity more, but the uprights are way too loud and the canisters too heavy and bulky for most, Miele still outsells for now.

 

[GM1982]

I think they should re-brand too. Get rid of Simplicity or Riccar and make one solid brand! Use the new Maytag vacuums as the value brand. Tacony has too many confusing lines, like the GM of vacuums. Many of the uprights are basically re-used designs morphing from the Panasonic, Sanyo and Fuller Brush. The new Maytag upright I think used to be the body of an older simplicity upright model.

 

[snowman]

VDTA right around corner !! Any news on the new canisters ?

 

[georgect]

Here's the new canister...

A thread was started here with images of the new canister coming from Riccar/Simplicity.


http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23777_72