But does it actually clean the clothes? Everyone keeps telling me they love their high efficiency washer but I've tried a couple different ones (we have some at work) and they don't actually clean the clothes. The cycle takes 2+ hours and it gently swishes your clothes back and forth for those two hours, you take them out and they're still dirty and smell bad, God help you if they have an oil stain in them. Throw the same item of clothing in my old school agitator washer, 40 minute cycle, takes almost any stain or odor out, no pre spraying of stains with anything. Yeah it uses more water but you also don't have rewash your clothes because it didn't get them clean.
I really want to switch to a high efficiency washer just for the water savings but they just don't seem to work - at all - if your clothes are actually dirty, I'm a mechanic so my clothes are always dirty and that doesn't work out too well.