Ricky; Wow! How to turn an positive into a negative. "Too many parts distributors"?
Where did you read about the 1,000,000 cycles? Maybe in the same magazine that rated Toyota # 1 with the it's end users?
You know the only people I know that know anything about forklift trucks are those that are in the business-which is a tiny fraction of the population. Now, what %age knows anything about reach stackers?
My guess is that any company that has made the capital investment to build these machines probably knows what they are doing and I'll take another claculated guess and figure they all make good ones. Maybe some may feel that one is better than the other, but they are all good machines.