I've been perfectly happy with the performance of the Flymo we had - it cut the grass fine for us. I'm just reluctant to replace like for like as the build quality was crap. Scarily so. A bit of hunting around seems to turn up plenty of others claiming this generation was crap (motors seem keen to let out their magic smoke) and also plenty of people reporting the bosch is good. I think I'll go for a Rotak which appears to get good reviews (yes, it's still an electric mower but we don't all have multiple acres to boast about on here).
Can't find out if it has an induction motor - which suggests not I guess. It apparantly has a Bosch "PowerDrive" motor. No idea what that means (beyond marketing cobblers) but apparantly it's a "hi-torque motor" and "With the Bosch Powerdrive system, power is at its greatest at low speed. If the blade speed is reduced, the power increases automatically"
Sounds great. See you all on here is 2.5 years time bitching about crap bosch mowers :)
Cheers all.
Darren