Doing the 4th round of laundry at the moment. My old washer broke down 3 weeks ago and the new thing had some delivery issues. Gave the delivery guys 20€ tip for carrying a fucking washing machine on their backs up to the 3rd floor!(we don’t have an elevator). And the old thing back down, absolute monsters.
AEG LR7fl841ex (dschörman), old one was a Bauknecht from ~2005.
It has some nice features, is very eco friendly and super quiet for the price range. It’s a middle-class machine with only 42l/cycle, the lowest I could find in store. Plus 10 year warranty on the motor.
I think at least in Germany you can’t go wrong with any of the white goods sold by the 4 or 5 big firms, they all produce in the same factories (at least Bosch and Siemsn do). And a washer is a washer, it was already over-engineered 10 years ago. The most important part for me was the energy efficiency and water consumption.