I've got a very old one which someone gave me. I use it to make pastry with as well as bread. Does it quite well too. You just have to stop it at the right place. I like it.
Which? magazine recently did a review of breadmakers. I'm not sure I still have that copy but maybe someone on here has an online account and provide details of their results.
I do have sneaky suspicion that Panasonic came out top.....again.
We've got the same one as Mrs Owd's getting. I love it and the bread is gorgeous. My only complaint is that the cooked bread can be difficult to lift out of the machine because the mixing paddle thingy can get stuck in it. It just means you end up with a hole in the bottom of the loaf where you've yanked it out. But the bread still tastes good, and that's the main thing.
Bread maker delivered,instructions read,ingredients put in, started an hour ago, no black eye's,yet, will post results,if no posts have Mrs Owd arrested.