Good video...
I think that video pretty well sums things up. The most important point the reviewer makes is that Kirbys do have a small learning curve but once you get past that, they really are great machines. That said, I have never been able to change the machine from upright to canister mode anywhere near as fast as the salesman did during an in-home demo of a Classic Omega I watched back in the early '70s. I was about nine years old at the time and was mightily impressed. We didn't buy one but from that point on, I had in the back of my head that some day, I'd like to have a Kirby until I finally found my first Gsix beside a dumpster some 40 years later. Best dumpster find ever.