I have been looking at buying a new sewing machine. I had been leaning very heavily towards a Pfaff 4.0 not the one with embroidery. I have done a lot of research and have heard good and bad about Pfaff since the company was sold a few years back. I have to say I sewed on one and loved it! Now, I will tell you what I was told by an LQS owner that stopped being a Pfaff dealer recently. She said the problem was not with how the machines operated, it was with getting parts if you had a problem with your machine. She said it took too long to get parts and in essence that made repair time too long so she finally made the decision to stop being a dealer due to this. This is just one dealers opinion but I wanted to pass this along. BTW she loved the older Pfaff's!