hope it will stay a "person"....
What I like about the new style:
- Nice to have a smaller bag in the hand-held setup (I found that folding of a long bag strange all the way through).
- If I understood the drawings correctly, this would be an easier way of changing the front accessories (not that the regular belt lifter was bad, not at all: sturdy and reliable - BUT making 4-5 different hand movements just to get a nozzle off?) Looking forward for a simple "click and done" solution.
- odd thing: why have that extra motor brush when you have the power brush anyway?
But one thing is most important to me, no matter what the new design is:
I find Kirbys have sort of a "personality", more than other vacuums: This friendly (sometimes somewhat grumpy) roar of the brush roll, the singing whine of the motor joining in and all along this the neverending stormy rushing sound of the air streaming up the fill hose ("...bet you, I will never be out of breath" it seems to say).
Overall just it is just like having an old, dear and reliable sheperd dog in your home, grumpy and "hmmpf" at times, but never leaving you alone.
(Right, since the introduction of the Tech-Drive, a sheperd with a cat biting his ass, but still a nice set of friendly and helpful pets.)
Somehow Kirbys always have "bushy eyebrows" to me, very much like the blue eagle of the muppets show. Distiguished, yet "no-nonsense" attitude.
Is this too "artsy"? I feel all my Kirbys are alive somehow ;-)