Is that what Hoover told you?
When I phoned Hoover in Wales, they said that they don't know very much and only what the Italian company send over. No wonder the company in the UK are in a mess if they don't know in advance what they are receiving.
Thing is, apart from the Nanopack design, there's virtually nothing distinguishable of the Athos compared to Miele's S5 or S8 when taking into consideration the bag capacity. Even in the video the woman looks like she has a short hose to put up with. I agree, the cost price will be the biggest's attractant.
As a fan of the original Telios, it was like a softened version of the ARIA that went before it back in the 1980s and even then when you looked at it, it always had a Miele style about it. Hoover were also rapped in the 1980s for copying Miele's dust bag design.
The Nanopack IMHO isn't as well designed as the Miele XXL handle that is available in other countries - a reason to why the S6 models have twin parking storage slots on either side of the vacuum cleaner and with the S8 too - the handle has an ingenious clip on the underside that allows the hose to be curved around the body of the Miele and the handle locked on one side of the vacuum cleaner with the floor head stored on the other.
The Germans wouldn't put a clip that could in theory snap off at the front where the major controls sit.
