Motor performance extremely good. Unit is sturdy and sits well on my bench. Mine came with bonus icecream bowl, and I've used it once - worked extremely well, but attachment quite tricky to put together. The beater that came with the unit is not anywhere near as good as my previous one, and I purchased a flex beater (@$70.00 extra)- it should be a standard inclusion. Made my best pav. ever using this machine, and am looking forward to many happy years together. Agree with other comments that despite the promotion blurb, you do need to scrape th e bowl down. I miss having a timer on the unit and now have to use the oven timer. And I also miss the speed use guide on the machine that my previous two mixers had and now I find I am constantly checking the book to see which speed to use. Didn't come with a recipe book, which surprised me, given the promotional blurb @ how much more efficient this machine is to use. Overall, very happy with the machine, but not without it's niggles.