To say I am shocked is an understatement, and to say I am relieved is a bigger one! At the moment in the UK we only have 1 budget bagged upright, the Hoover Purepower. All the other ones have slowly disappeared, and since Electrolux went all the decent bagged uprights went too. We lost Panasonic aswell in I think 2017 and no one else makes a budget bagged upright anymore, they have all been discontinued. I was doing my usual searching around online yesterday and I found a yellow and white one from Zanussi, called the airspeed lite 2. I thought it was an old stock photo or a mistake but when I looked around its in stock everywhere, on amazon aswell. I oredered one for £103 but other places are selling them as high as £165. They wernt too descriptive of it but what I can tell from the pictures it looks good! A very clean looking yellow and white design, LED headlight (not just a blanking plate where one would be!) and turbo brush for the hose aswell. It reminds me of the upright Electrolux offered before they went, cant remember what it was called. When Electrolux went it was ten branded Zanussi for a short period of time and it just reminds me of that, the old Zanussi branded one was the airspeed lite and they are calling this the airspeed lite 2. I still couldnt bieleve it, but I looked in the product specifications and its only 700w, and 80DB so it meets the new EU vacuum cleaner standards. They also do a bagless version of it aswell that looks ok, but the bagged will be better of course! I really do hope this is the start of a resurgence of bagged uprights,now that the power is limited to 700w, it will make some of the old designs more efficient. I don't know wether it comes with a paper or fleece bag though and there were no pictures of the bags there, maybe the old Electrolux bags will fit. I can't wait for mine to arrive, everyone grab one and get the sales numbers up! Ha!
Jake
Jake
