In. today's video we're finally going to meet the Ekko!
What is going on youtube! Greetings from the Tampa RV show. I finally got a close-up look
at the winnebago Ekko and i'm gonna share with you if it lives up to all the hype. So the first
part of this video is footage i actually shot with my normal camera and i'm gonna give you
my impression as i do a little walkthrough of the Ekko the second part of this video is from my five
hour live broadcast from the tampa rv show where i went into the Ekko twice but it would
be impossible for you to find it in all that footage so i went ahead and put those two live
tours of the echo at the end of this video so you could see my reactions in the moment and make
sure you stick around to the end of the video and i'll tell you what i personally think of the echo
and who i think it makes sense for all right so let's start off with the outside of the Ekko
there's this little outdoor kitchen area i believe this is an option so you can just leave that space
blank i think FIT RV is gonna use it for extra batteries maybe i'm not sure i'd probably leave
that space blank if i got this you have the little propane tank area there that i just
zoomed by which is cool because it has removable propane tanks and here we have my favorite part of
the rv which is the garage storage area and why this thing is so hyped up because you can store
stuff back here like mountain bikes snowboards things like that and then you have this big giant
monstrosity on the back which is like an awning i know some people will probably love this thing
but the good thing about it is it's an option so if you don't want it you don't have to have it
i think that's how the rv industry should handle all awnings it should be an option and if i don't
want it i shouldn't have to take it all right next up we have one of my favorite design decisions for
the Ekko we have a cassette toilet there are two types of people those who love cassette
toilets and those who hate them i'm in the camp that loves them i wish i had one on my travato
not only do i love this cassette toilet but you're gonna see later on in this video that
the bathroom is my favorite part of this echo and i hope in the future winnebago takes that design
and puts it in more of their smaller rvs all right let's head inside here
so the echo is built on the ford transit chassis so it's all-wheel drive you're gonna be able to
take this to places that i can't take my prom wait a second that i shouldn't take my promaster
because i'm gonna take it there anyway but it's great you can take this echo off-grid without
having to worry too much so if you're familiar with the travato g floor plan it's very similar
in this front area you've got the little seating area with the lagoon table there is a tv up here
over the cab so if you want to watch tv i guess if you if you're buying this van you probably don't
want to watch tv anyway but you know it's there if you want to watch your gopro footage or something
and then you have the ford cockpit which is pretty nice it's very similar to the promaster
over here you have some storage cabinets like you see on most class bs except for i noticed
that the hardware is a little bit better on these so maybe winnebago is hearing our cries about the
hardware then you have these awning style windows which i love i think they come standard on these
but if you have that option you have to get it over here you've got the two seats at the lagoon
table they have seat belts on them so you can strap in four people two in the front two here
four people riding down the road safely over here you've got the standard class b style kitchen
you know what i'm gonna complain about it's got gas this thing is supposed to
have a pretty good electrical system so why not put an electric induction stove there
up here is the microwave i believe it's convection i'm not 100 positive and then you
have this refrigerator which i do a better job filming in my live stream but it's really long
it's narrow but it's long so i think it'll meet the needs of two people traveling in here next up
is the bathroom i did not do a good job i didn't realize that there was something really cool about
this bathroom so i didn't film it very well later in this video when i do it on my live streams
i'll figure out what's really cool about this bathroom so you're gonna have to wait for that
but there's a bathroom in here that's really cool and then back here you got the sleeping
area it's divided into two slots i'm assuming you can make it into one big bed for someone like me
that travels solo i would keep it like that all right so now we're going to check out the two
live stream tours i did and you'll get a better feel of what i thought about it in the moment
can i get the Ekko chat echo echo all right we'll try to get in it in a moment
so i'll show you the i'll show you the exterior obviously this is the back of the Ekko this is
the prototype version so it's changed a little bit if you watch fit rv's video you'll see the
changes so you got an awning up front but you have this like all-around awning which is uh
which i guess could be pretty cool you guys know i'm not a huge fan of awnings
like i would cut them off if i could here's this is going to be some people's bugaboo about this
thing it's got a cassette toilet although i think there's a version without a cassette toilet coming
got an outlet here that's pretty cool
you've got all the mounts obviously right and you got mounts up here
you've even got you've even got a vent here i'm assuming that
that means you can heat this compartment got a ladder here
so this is the prototype so this might be the one that fit rv took out um it's got awning
windows too which you guys know i love huge fan of any windows like they're worth the price
because you can open them up when it rains like this like right now this thing's wet on
top because it was raining earlier well i'm sure they kept it open right they also have
it in two different versions they have like the tenant version and then the non-tenant version
but yeah as soon as i can get in this thing i will because i know you guys want to see it
but let's let's look at the front so obviously this is on the ford transit chassis looks like
they have a better screen here i'm not sure if it has the airplay like the mercedes but
obviously it's all-wheel drive the only thing that's a little bit
weird are the dual tires in the back you know me i get stuck a lot and trying to get out
getting stuck like that would be a little crazy yeah i'm trying to get in here but
everyone wants to see the echo so we'll let the weight a moment you guys know how i feel about the
echo not my style but there is definitely interest in this van definitely a lot of interest in it so
we'll we'll jump in there as soon as we can all right here we go
all right let's check it out
all right we've got i know there's going to be two different versions of this one this one's kind of
like the um the one for couples and not if you got a bunch of kids so all right it definitely feels
big up front you've got the standard winnebago um these new seats they started putting in the
g right so very similar to the g you've got the revolving seats you got a lagoon table here
looks like it yeah you can fold it down then you've got another lagoon table here that's
actually really cool um i like that that's really cool um then of course you've got
the kitchen area you know how i feel about propane look all right hold on i don't know
if james is going to watch this but james if you want this if the lithionic system is so good how
come there is an induction cooktop how come there is not an induction cooktop all right let's see
all right we've got this is obviously the bed area back here
i like this because you can like split it up so you can make it one bed
but if you're like me i would just sleep on this side and probably use this as kind of like a desk
and then if i had like nieces and nephews come you know they could sleep there because there's
no like in a lot of these you'll have some kind of bed up here but there isn't obviously
i don't know if in the other version that's going to be the case but you also have this huge no cool
i mean huge for me maybe not huge for some of you but huge for me right um i don't know if this is
i i think this is a convection oven as well so you'll have the oven in here
and then here's the bathroom which i've heard really good things about
hey do not open okay
so you got the toilet here that like moves around obviously it's a cassette toilet it
reminds me of one in a Hymer because it moves around so people have stood in there obviously
and hey look at this novel idea a shower curtain thing put that on the travato put that on the k
yeah so i don't know though like with the sink here oh wait a second oh look at that oh okay
okay that's cool okay that's cool i take back all the bad stuff i said
that's cool so this thing moves out
and basically i'm sorry my camera's so shaky it basically gets rid of the toilet so you can shower
i take back all the bad things i said about the echo so james i take back all the bad
things except the lithionics system that's they should have put a voltage
yeah they want to see the echo really bad
all right check this out look at that so we're obviously this the cut this seat setup is kind
of like the g right it's the same type of style as the travato g you've got the what i really
like about this one you got two so obviously it's on the ford chassis so it's all-wheel drive which
is great they've got the um they've got two lagoon tables here so when you rotate the seats around
that seat's got its own lagoon table that's a good freaking idea like you got the tv here right
but you're not getting this fan to watch me you're getting this van to go party
right all right james this electronic system's so good why is there not why is there propane
i'm just kidding just kidding don't tell james on me
hey robert robert is a member thank you for joining earlier today robert
your name shows up in green now so i can identify members which is really cool um
look at that look at that refrigerator isn't that cool that's cool i like it it's kind of
skinny but okay so here's the star of the show to me so you know guy you guys know i've been
a kind of a critic not a critic i just i'm not this is not my style right but this is
the star of the show to me this bathroom right okay so you're probably saying yourself kevin
why is this the star of the show it just looks like a normal bathroom here's why watch this
look at that i think they're locking me in here
look at that so now you have a shower that's just a shower right
you've hid you've hid the bathroom you've tucked away everything
and now boom you know how we talked about the storytellers they have the different modes
well here it is winnebago is doing the little mode thing right
you got the different mode you got this is your bathroom right this is where you come in and you
do your business right one and two and now let's turn it over to shower mode boom now
it's shower mode now it's just a shower you're not sharing with your toilet it's a full-size shower
that's cool man i hope i hope they take that bathroom design and integrated into other
coaches it's just really a novel idea yeah really cool all right so what do i think about the Ekko
i'm going to be honest i did not get the echo when i first heard it announced when i saw the
pictures when i saw walkthroughs but i get it now personally it's not for me but i understand who
it's for it's for that outdoorsy guy outdoorsy girl outdoorsy couple that likes to do a lot of
different things they like to hike they like to snowboard they like to mountain bike they like
to kayak that's who this vehicle is for it's for that person it has plenty of storage space
but it's still small enough where you can maneuver in and out of places that you might not be able to
get to with a bigger class c or obviously a class a it's not for a traveler like me
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