Quote from Trilobite on 03/12/07 at 5:58pm:
Has Dyson decided to give each model variant (i.e.; Animal, Allergy, Origin, etc.) its own model number?
The DC21 is in Canada for sale (according to the dyson CAN Web site): Two models are available: The DC21 Stowaway; and the DC21 Stowaway Full Kit which is available exclusively at COSTCO. Same model number, different model name. In the USA, the short-lived DC11 dyson canister didn't have a name. Big mistake by dyson. Customers can't remember model numbers but they can easily remember catchy names.
Why the DC21 in Canada FIRST? Canadian vacuum consumers have always been more inclined to canisters and tanks (commonly called cylinders in the EU) than the US vacuum buyers. Americans have shown a propensity over the last half century for uprights. Hence the prevalence and popularity of central vacuum systems in Canada vice the USA.
Although the tide has been changing recently in the USA with more consumers inclined to buy canisters and CVS. Still uprights are king of the hill in the USA and I don't think any canister and/or tank with/without a top notch power nozzle can change the half century trend away from uprights.
Did the failed attempt of the dyson DC11 cann in the USA "stigmatize" dyson's reputation for canisters worldwide and particularly the DC11? Maybe. And quite possibly the reason for different model numbers and "names" for dyson canns.
I always opined that dyson would reintro the cann in the USA and use the same model number (DC11) but assign it a name. I would have thought dyson would want to vindicate the fiasco of the DC11 in the USA. But to date, more than 2 years after dyson folded his tent on canisters in the USA and went home, the company and its founder have proven me wrong.
Carmine D.
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