9feb18 -
This thread is not fresh but I thought I would add some current information regarding the Okinagan Tribute Class B twin bed RV. I ran across this RV late last night while doing some research. It is the closest thing to a WINNEBAGO Travato 59K on the market but finding information about this took some doing. This turned out to be a case where a telephone call produced answers in about 30 seconds of human to human contact versus the 1/2 hour+ of Internet surfing I did this morning.
My call was placed with ALP, an RV manufacturer in Yakima, Washington after some digging on the Internet to determine they were tied to The ADVENTURER GROUP out of Abbotsford, BC. The call was necessary because there is frankly, scant information about the Okinagan Tribute (O T for short) to be found on the Internet. What I found in Canada appeared to be 2017 and 2018's that were used for sale and references to rentals available.
The call to the Sales Dept in the Washington-portion of The ADVENTURER GROUP verified that this RV is not available from dealers in the USA for sale or rent and according to my contact, there are no plans to bring it in. I pushed that again to ask if there were any potential future plans and that didn't change the answer except to say that I could go to FRASERWAY dealers in Canada to purchase used units. I asked, and my contact stated that yes, they met US regulations and could be brought into the US this way.
I didn't want to badger the guy who answered my questions very nicely so my interpretation here (which may be wrong) is that they can sell you an OT there, to bring across the border if it is used, probably with a minimum of X miles on it to be legal as a used RV. I am just guessing this is the case. As for new ones, I have to think that someday they will be available in the USA but the company is not prepared yet to deal with USA requirements and/or maybe not quite ready to go to bat full bore against WINNEBAGO from the marketing & support perspective. The product itself looks fine, at least as far as I can determine from information and photos on the Internet.
Gene