Personally, I hate the damn things. I'll never buy a front loader after living at my parents' when DD1 was a newborn (mum has a front loader).
It takes FOREVER to do a load, even on the quick cycle. And it's so damn TINY (DH and I have, like, an 8kg I think?? It's huge, does two doonas + sheet sets in ONE LOAD!) - and DH and I go through a LOT of washing, especially with the kids, so a smaller washing machine did not work out for us at all. At one point we were doing FIVE loads of laundry a day and STILL falling behind because we just couldn't cram everything we needed to into one load of laundry. I don't know, maybe you can get bigger ones, but that and the slowpoke 'quick wash' cycle just really put me off ever considering one when the time comes to replace our washing machine.
Oh, and mum's front loader was just propped up on a low crate so I just about broke my poor back every time I put washing in or pulled it out, it was sooo low.