In my experience, Okuma for turning, Mori Seiki for VMC
Haas, Fadel, Mazak I have locally, they're cool. Crash it, now lets really talk about whats happening.
Reset, move away from the problem, go again. Try that with a Fadel. aaah, NO!
DanSinOhio "I won't even tell anyone what my tolerances are. It would be too embarrassing." OK, that's funny! Been there.
edit: The cost. The tooling. The "gear up". All considerations, the cost.
second edit: I have a mitsubishi lathe, RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!