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What's the best vacuum cleaner under $200

The Oreck is somewhat good, low on power but at least it's a bagged vacuum and they sell parts for them. The rest are cheap junk. For $200 you can buy a bagged Kenmore canister on clearance and expect to last and clean well for 15 - 20 years given reasonable care and frequent regular bag and filter changes. Kenmore had great parts support and I can still buy brush rolls, brush roll motors and suction motors for a 1982 vintage Kenmore canister vacuum I inheritied. Bissell offers absolutely no parts support and Hoover is pretty limited. I have a Bissell Digipro canister and cannot even buy replacement HEPA filters or brush rolls for it. Nice machine but useless when you cannot even replace the filters of brush roll. Did you look at the Hoover Tempo Widepath upright? These routinely sell for under $100 on line with free shipping and are pretty reasonable bagged uprights. Hoover, Royal, Dirt Devil and Oreck are all owned by TTI of China now and they all share the same parts and come off the same Chinese assembly lines. Hoover and Oreck both sell one commercial upright that is still made in the US (same basic machine but with different badging). Royal sells the same vacuum as the Hoover Tempo in orange and charges upwards of $200 for the privilege of having the Royal name on it vs Hoover. Another good upright in your price range would be the Panasonic MC-UG223 or Panasonic MC-UG471. The former is the modern iteration of the revered Panasonic Jet Flo uprights from the late 1970s, a thoroughly proven and well regarded design. The latter is a modern update of the Jet Flo design with some additional features. Panasonic has always made better uprights than most and while no longer made in Japan or the US their best features continue to this day in these two machines.

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The review you have linked includes vacuums that retail for well over $200, such as the Miele Electro+ Canister Vacuum Marine Blue, which retails for $599.20. For that kind of money you can buy the Kenmore Elite with money left and have a better vacuum. I have both machines. The Kenny is more powerful, much larger bag, better attachments, a better hose and a better power nozzle. For my $200 I would shop for a Kenmore 600 Series or BC4027 canister on clearance (floor model for example) or consider a used professionally refurbished Aerus Lux or Tristar canister vacuum. Both brands routinely last three decades given reasonable care. Tristars are all metal with very little to wear out and when something does eventually wear out, they are easy to repair. Parts prices are very reasonable and they stock parts for decades old models. The same is mostly true for Aerus Lux machines but they are not mostly plastic and a little bit more difficult to take apart.