I've had my SZ since '99 when the price tag didn't bother me. Now, its up there. I have a few friends who are realtors who tell me I've added to the value of my house as SubZero has such a great reputation. Even with the mechanical complexity of the ice on the door, I really haven't had any failures once I figured out that you have to switch from a Culligan Reverse Osmosis water purifier to a Kinetico Quickflow for the Ice maker to keep from overflowing. With the low water pressure of the Culligan, I had to manually defrost the icemaker when I tested to see if the freezer really can go below zero. Back in those times, the SZ was the only fridge with ice on the door that consumed less than 900Kw/H a year thanks to the air lock on the door dispenser and having two separate compressors for fridge and freezer. My house is solar, so that was very important to me. If water on the door dispenser stops flowing, you set the fridge temp below 34 and it froze. You can't leave salad stuff outside the crisper even at 34. It will freeze and decay quickly. Same thing with fruits like strawberries. They go bad faster if they start to freeze. My beer has never been as cold and delicious since it started resting in the meat drawer. Your mileage may vary. My other appliances are a beloved F&P dishdrawer and an AGA cooker. But, thats another thread.

I suppose you're right but what if the new ones have something I like? A purchase like this has more passion than cold calculation anyway. I have a seach running on Ebay for 700TC and over the last month there have been several floor demos for auction. AJMadison sold theirs three weeks ago. So I figured the new ones are on the way. Last year somebody on the Gardenweb kitchen forum asked how he should decide how much money to spend on a fridge. The only answer he got that made sense to me was somebody who told him to base it on the neighborhood he lives in. If you want a high end house in a high end neighborhood you have to be willing to put high end stuff in it. That's what I'm trying to do here except that I'm working with a tiny house. If I just wanted to keep food cold I'd get an LG for $500. I could buy a dozen new ones to replace broken ones for the price of an SZ.

Well, you didn't spoil the party with that info, Andre. Except for SZ's Wine Fridge (Perlick)---I think that's SZ's, it is hard to find any info, especially from SZ, about their use of a variable speed compressor. Doing searches for same , along with looking at the link you gave, I was able to track down some posts, (Mainly on Refrigration repair sites), where it does appear that the newer SZ's are indeed using the newer VSC technology. Good to see that they are only 5 years or so behind Jenn-air, alto both companies need to do a better job listing the features of their fridges, especially the technical ones. This compressor is what allowed the JA to claim .5 Degree accuracy and I'm sure SZ will follow with a similar claim. If you have any doubts as to the value of such a compressor system, just Google "Perlick Wine Fridge". It does make ya wonder why Liebherr does a much better job of explaining Technical advantages of their fridges than do their American Competitors. Hmmmmmm are Euros more technically inclined than us "Yanks"---In the US, Fridge Makers can just say "It keeps food fresher longer" or this or that "Latest Sales Slogan" and we Yanks BUY without having the foggiest notion of what it does and even much less at how it does it! As I mentioned before, be careful, Not all Jenn-air or SZ's use that compressor yet (At least I can't document it) so "One Hopes" you will have a saleman that knows what a VSC is. Gary

I'm going with Thermador for the same reason as @Kelley Dockrey. I had Thermador columns in my previous house and never had a problem in 12 years. I wanted a Subzero this time because I'm going with a 36" over under and really like the layout of theirs but I won't wait over a year, especially when the company isn't up front about how long it will take. To answer your question, I think SZ is the only one that makes a built in 42" french door fridge.