Miele stores
Walked in today to finally take a look at the Blizzard.
They had a whole set up displaying three variants of that model on top of a really cool looking 10'x10' dark red shag carpet. The saleslady encouraged me to dive in, but I didn't have time to play. I'll probably get back there in a month or two.
I want to check out the performance and feel as well as what they claim is a self-cleaning permanent filter... Didn't work too well on the Hoover Z, so I'm a bit skeptical, as the filter over time gets stinky and smells during use. It's within a casing that inserts into the machine like a cartridge, so I'm not sure why they wouldn't just call it a 3 or 5 year filter.
