[Ross F-1]

Best advice I heard was on another forum:
"I sell, service and install lifts as part of my living. I always get asked "can you get me such and such a part for my never-heard-of-em lift?"...buy what you've heard of. I sell Challenger and Rotary, and my customers know 50 years from now I can easily get them parts. Seriously, every swinging d sells a lift and quickly goes out of business...Moral of this story, you get what you pay for. "

US-made lifts come with an assurance of having been designed by a structural engineer, no so much with imported asian stuff.