Washing machine dilemma - spec me one.

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My washing machine has been declared clinically dead - it was a Miele, 18 years old and had never had a callout, it just worked. Used to do non-stop washes for a family of 5, then after 8 years of faultless family use and 10 years of me overloading it, it has burnt out the motor.
This is just for me now, I live alone. So, should I buy a decent Miele at around a grand - , or the cheapest possible washing machine I can get new (about £160), in the hope that it will do the job, and have less things to fix, and they will be cheaper?
The motor alone to fix the Miele is more than the cost of a cheap washing machine - but it might last another 18 years with a new motor. Or another bit might die tomorrow.
Or, what about the auctions? I live close to an auction house that always has washers up for bidding - if I could get a reasonable looking washer for £50,(all the stuff is tested). I could just bin it when it breaks and get another thread/washing machine.

What to do, OC people?

 

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Around £300, model number I can't remember - it in the garage and it's cold and wet outside lol! I'm a mechanical engineer, would fix most things myself - even called up the local rewinders and they would not touch it, would have cost about £120 to wind but they don't do Miele for "business reasons" - they also make clutches to spec.
I have brought in a motor smaller than a fist to be done before, for an ancient water pump - £40 which was very decent.

 

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I'm near Belfast, so have thought about flogging it to the recyclers - and they'll probably sell me the same one back for £300. Thinking about it, my mum used to do two washes a day in that machine, until I grabbed it when she got a built-in one when she had a massive kitchen put in.
17 years old is a hell of an age to go with NO servicing, no belts
replaced, bushes, anything. I'm a Mechanical Engineer and work with 5 Electrical Engineers - brought in the motor and the consensus is that it is fried.
I've been looking at laundrette machines, huge things (but it's in the garage so size, for once, does not matter), and a recon commercial Miele seems to go for about £400 - that way I could wash all my clothes at once!
My old washer was a hotpoint - the spider at the back of the drum broke one night and it put holes in all my clothes, but this one is just dead as a dead thing.

 

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Listened to a woman the other day slate her previous Kenwood dishwasher whilst we repaired her new expensive Rangemaster dishwasher.

I was woeing my woes about the thing at work the other day, and a guy reccomended Hotpoint -Civil Engineer, what would he know anyway! He says his is 10 years old and has only just started to rust round the door, and as long as he has it serviced annually at £80 a time it could last another 10 years! I didn't even start...