One of the nice things about KitchenAid is, the old machines will support the new attachments. I was watching a demo on their spiralizer on HSN/QVC the other day, and they said it would work if you had a mixer from 1912 or 1918, whenever they first started making them. So, even if you have Grandma's ancient mixer, you can still use the new, fancy-scmancy pasta maker, ice cream maker, spiralizer, and so forth.