Some of those names mentioned (Miele, Bosch, Smeg etc) are top end quality but you pay for them.
I recently had a Zanussi condenser dryer develop a small fault and the guy who came to fix it had a chat about different brand names that he would recommend. He has been fixing white goods for 25 years.
He said that you don;t really need to spend too much to get good quality items. He said that Hoover, Whirlpool, Zanussi etc were all decent brands and worth spending the extra £20 or £30 on over the cheap brands. He said some of the cheaper brands can be very hit or miss. Mentioned likes of Beko, Daewoo etc - the newer sort of arrivals on the market.
Having said that I have a Beko fridge freezer for 8 years with no bother.