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I like the Nanopack System on this, but if Hoover UK bought it to the UK I would buy one straightaway as long as it wasn't too expensive.
 
Yes, but they have a 1000w version on sale. I love how they have used a lot of Miele & Hoover Telios designs in it - 5L bag, Clicky slots on the handle & floor tool to lock them into place, tools stored under a flap, 4 castors etc

I was practically pleading with Hoover to let them release the Athos in the UK, but they said they don't release any information until they are 100% sure that they are doing so.
 
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.

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Since I own one of the VERY early Purepower's which is from 1997 and I have owned a 2010 Purepower I can say that the quality, performance and noise level is NOTHING like that of the old one!!
The handle release on my 97 Purepower is far superior to the one that was on my 2010 model on my 97 one you just have to press it ever so lightly and it releases, unlike the 2010 model where an elephants foot was required.

The Turbopower 2's were MUCH better, but that is another story and I am sure some or most people on here have heard me talk enough about Turbopower's.
 
Yes, its a pity that Hoover went one better (?) and got rid of the red LED bag light beside the on switch on the Purepower. For the last couple of years, a cheap blanking plate where the light should be merely highlights the stinginess of the company.
 
I have had the mach air range and they really are very over rated. Cheaply built, very weak brush roll. It wont groom thick pilled carpets well at all.

The best lightweight vacuum I have used is what I have - Felix by Sebo. Not only is it lightweight but as we know, its detachable and has incredible vacuuming capabilities. Might also be easier because it swivels.

Also, the on/off, suction control and the cable storage is up high on the cleaner. No bending down what so ever.
 
Where the early Purepower's are concerned, the handle release was less temperamental as it actually had a metal spring under the pedal which would compress down when releasing and wouldn't snap under to much force, unlike the later and indeed new models did/do. The later and new models have a pedal which has a stiff plastic piece attached to the bottom of the it and is supposed to flex when compressed, however this can brake as it is only plastic which requires to bend. That is also the reason the handle release is so hard to press down because there is no spring under the pedal like the original design, it has that relatively rigid plastic piece which you have to nearly stamp on to get it to release and of course as mentioned if it is pressed to hard it will snap.
 


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