Beginning to wonder.

[Vodhin]

"screaming plastic nightmare"

NYCWriter got that right...

I sometimes look at the modern consumer grade vacs offered by the big-box stores and just sigh.

Computers took the pencil and clay out of the engineer-artist's hands and gave companies the ability to hire practically unskilled (if not just untalented) designers to re-model some existing 3D model of some ghastly lump of plastic.

Not to question just how passionate the younger folks are for creative design, but how many would be willing to sketch and re-sketch, by hand over and over, a power nozzle? How willing would a company be to pay someone like that to design a power nozzle? It used to be there was no choice: There wasn't any other way to disign a product except by a draftsman.

I look at my Electrolux PN1 from many angles and I see a form that follows function with a bit of flare that to me is just right. The Electrolux PN2 is whopping departure from that first design, but follows contemporary styling of the day and may have come about because of the need to have it stand upright.

Change can be good, even if not necessary. These blobs today though, they really are a "screaming plastic nightmare"

 

[sebo_fan]

Yes, but with all good respects to your post, can those "screaming plastic nightmares" clean flat to the floor due to small motors and flatter floor heads? Do they have easier to remove partitions to clean the brush head/roller brush bar without fishing out the tool box? Case in point. They may be frighteningly ugly to the eye but at least they may be able to offer a better versatile cleaning job than what went on before and they may be even lighter to lift should the owner require to do so.