2027 Foretravel Realm Limited Exclusive First Look and Full Tour

Good morning. I am currently partnerless in my bed. Everyone in the house has a flu. Sarah slept on the couch with half of our kids. Now I have to go wake her up because it is time to get to work. Wish me luck. Pile full of Kramers in my living room. How did everybody sleep? Leg broken. Whose leg is broken? Ezra. Oh gosh. I'm glad that you're not screaming at us like you were in the bathroom yesterday when you woke up. How are you feeling little princess? You look better. How does mom feel? Mom feels like amazing. Let me try it on your ear first and then you can try it. Can I try it on your ear too? Can I try it on your ear? This ear doesn't have a fever. He's been laying on that one. Oh this one's 100. Dr. Sloney. Okay just be general. Please be general. Sloney that's really hard. Oh that's so much better bony. 98.4. Mommy you don't have a fever. It's good. I think he's got it. You're on my forehead though here. There you go. So we've spent the last week being sick at Disney. We've been on medicine for days and so we're still kind of like medicine head and not feeling great. But today is the day we have to go shoot for Ford Travel because we are so fortunate to have partnered with such an amazing brand and they are letting us have the very first look. There's a bee about testing your arm. We are grabbing some snacks. Crackers. Those are chocolate cookies. Are you sure? That's what I was gonna say. Just grab this juice and we'll be good. Crackers and peanut butter. Yeah that's good. We just pulled up at the Florida State Fairgrounds my love. Look at that giant duck. How's it going? Here for Ford Travel set up and stuff. We just showed up to the Florida State Fairgrounds and we're standing outside the Expo Hall. We are so excited to be brand ambassadors for Ford Travel. They're allowing us to be the very first to introduce their brand new 2027 Realm Limited Series. We actually shot it a couple weeks ago in Nacogdoches before it rolled out but it was missing a nose piece and then we kind of screwed up royally because I messed up with one of the cameras and it was like having a seizure and then Chad blew his drone into a tree. Still in the tree. It's still in the tree. It's like 50 feet up. I can't get it down but we're about to be the very first ones to walk through the doors and see what's going on inside and you get to come with us. This is a freaking sick motorcoach. I don't want to be showing off with water spots. What's that about? Don't worry I got you covered. I'm up in here with my toothbrush. You're working too hard. Well look how shiny it is. We cleaned it properly. So shiny. It's like super high bay doors. I know I love that. I can't wait for ours to be ready. So much. Come here. Come here. You love this blue RV? Quick hug. Yeah you would love this RV. You see the cool blue lights under it? Oh gosh there are a lot of water spots. I told you. You can't reach that high on me. I can't. Go gadget arms. All right get up there Kramer. I guess I could get on your shoulders. We could do the whole like how are we gonna do the window? I have found a chamois on a Look what I found. A proper cleaning tool. There we go. Look at that nice and shiny. It's doing a good job. Like how many windows does this sucker have? Here I'll take over. I didn't eat my Wheaties this morning. I'll take over. So we're here in front of the new chassis that's proprietary to Ford Travel. This is coming out on their 2027 year model Realm Limited. What we're standing in front of is the beginnings of the Travel Ride 4 chassis. This is a combination of a Ford Travel design. Freightliner will supply us with the front and the rear modules. And y'all have named this the Ford Trust. Is that right? The Ford Trust is the name of the chassis bridge system that will link the two modules from Freightliner together. We are calling this our Travel Ride 4 chassis. What are some of the benefits going with this system? Like what did y'all do differently that hasn't been done before? So there are very few manufacturers that don't use just an off-the-shelf product. When we picked Freightliner to partner with for this chassis, we wanted to design our bridge system to allow us to essentially tailor the coach around the chassis instead of using an off-the-shelf part to build around. Still have the same structural integrity that we've always had. You get an added rigidity with the square tube design in the ladder frame on the Ford Trust. It will allow minimal flex on the coach while you're traveling. The tires and everything else, we're still using 365 up front, 315s in the back. So it still has a very solid foundation on the tires themselves and the suspension. So what engine are y'all going with on this? So this one is the X15. We're sticking with the Cummins X15, which is the 605. So no sacrifice there in power. Is it still the same kind of towing capacity that you had in previous years? Same towing capacity as the previous generation around, which is 20,000 pounds. I mean, one of the key things you'll have in previous years and on the present, you'll have performance choice. Is that still an option on here? That's still going to be standard with the Realm. It's plumbed and designed a little bit differently because it's a different front axle. But yes, it's still going to have a performance choice on the front axle. Explain in more detail what performance choice does for a four-travels ride. With performance choice, it's an addition to the front axle where a front roll bar is added to the front axle along with ping tanks or air tanks that add and supply extra volume to the airbags. So what that translates out to is a different ride when you're driving down the road. That extra volume allows for a softer ride, essentially. You have a choice between a sport and a touring mode, which essentially turns on and off the ping tanks. When y'all get this chassis from Freightliner, it comes as one solid chassis on a C-channel frame, and then y'all take it from there and do... When it comes in on the 18-wheeler, they ship it to us in one piece. So there's a C-channel that links both of these modules together. Now, we'll pull that C-channel off and have just the front module and the rear module. And that's when we begin installing our Fortress Bridge system. It has a tag. Is it a passive steer tag axle like you had in previous years? Yes. So you still get the 17-degree passive steering ability with the tag axle. For people that don't know anything about tag axles and when they're passive or non-passive steer, what does that help with? How does that benefit? That's going to help you with your turning radius. So when you're making a tight turn or putting it in the storage and you got to make a tight turn, this tag axle is going to turn and pivot to allow that back end of the code to go where you want it to a little easier without scrubbing your five. So what kind of turning radius are we looking at? Compared to the previous generation Rim, it was a little bit tighter turning radius. So you can make those turns. We were impressed. When we started down the road of this project, we understood that many of our buyers want the Ford Travel engineering, the ride quality, the structural integrity. The project, the point of it was to broaden the access to the Ford Travel experience without compromising on what Ford Travel is known for. What were some of the things that you just off limits that you would not change even going with a different model and things like that? Our slide room composition, how we build those, our sidewall, we're still using all steel sidewall. Of course, made our hybrid chassis using our Ford Travel bridge system with the Freightliner chassis modules. We did that intentionally so we can maintain the ride quality that Ford Travels are known for. We noticed the market was shifting. The buyers for the luxury coaches, they were shifting. We went down the road of how do we get those buyers into a Ford Travel quality coach that was more accessible. What are you expecting at the release in Tampa, the customer feedback? What we expect in Tampa is for this coach to be well received because of its scope, its intentions of what it's trying to accomplish. I'm really looking forward to the debut and the release of this into the market. The Limited Series comes from Limited Productions, so we're going to build three different floor plans and two models of each floor plan. Now, we'll have options for interiors. We have three different color palettes, up to eight different paint schemes, so one can configure a coach how they want to. So this Realm is officially available for purchase at the Tampa Super Show on January the 13th when they reveal it to the public. I'm currently standing in the Realm Limited Series. Ford Travel builds such a beautiful coach. Chad and I are so fortunate to be brand ambassadors for this company, and let me tell you, we are so excited. We were one of the first ones to step inside their brand new model. Jeremy Rocha and Chad sat down. They talked about all the technical stuff, but I'm going to take you through from a woman's perspective and tell you why I love this coach so much. I don't necessarily drive the coaches, but I definitely ride in them. Yes, I'm a co-pilot, even though I don't drive. The co-pilot seat is so comfy and beautiful. They really feel like armchairs that you could, like, relax in at home. And then there's, like, a cell phone charger right here next to you with a nice deep cup holder that would hold, like, a tumbler. I hate how some cup holders are really short and the cups go flying out everywhere. So there's an AC plug, a USB, and a USB-C plug all right here as well, right behind the cell phone port. All of these screens... Light up when you have the key. Yeah, they light up when you have the key. Phone charger right there, a convenient place for your phone. You can still see, like, maps or whatever you do. But each screen also reacts to the blinkers. So when you turn on your left blinker, that screen shows you down that side of the coach. So on your right blinker, this screen shows you down that side of the coach. And everything is customizable. One thing that I do love about how 4Travel kind of finishes everything is the little accessories that you don't think about until you're jumping from a production coach to one of these luxury coaches. Just check out the windows. They finish all this off. So it's not just, like, a raw window with wires hanging down everywhere, like we've seen in some other coaches. They go the extra mile and they make sure that that's all nice and tucked away. I love all the accent lighting, too. The guys at 4Travel, they really know what they're doing in textiles. There's two different types of fabrics that they use in here. There's real leather and then there's ultra leather. And the ultra leather is, like, indestructible. That's what they use, like, on all of these uprights and on the balances. The reason why that's so important is because in high traffic areas, if you were to use real leather, it's gonna wear and it's gonna get torn up and it's gonna look disgusting. But the ultra leather really, really holds up. And it's really easy to clean as well. You can just kind of wipe it down and it looks brand new and fresh. So here you can see kind of a close-up of this ultra leather. It still has a nice pebbled texture, so it resembles real leather. It's not like some kind of cheap pleather. It's an amazing material. On the balances, you can see they used more of, like, a pearlescent and it has this really beautiful luster. Now, this is something that I haven't really seen and it's this textured wallpaper. This is really nice. 4Travel does a really good job of making sure that all of the textiles and fabrics that they use in their coaches are extremely durable, they're easy to clean, but they're also beautiful and they all look very high-end and luxurious. So let's take a closer look at this wall coating. This is actually a laminate, but it resembles dark wood. But it's not real wood, but totally durable and it's not able to be chipped like real wood would. So for us, a kitchen needs to be extremely functional. We travel full time now and we made meals when we used it for vacation purposes, not like now. Now it's breakfast, lunch, and dinner in our kitchen. So one thing I love about 4Travel is how functional the kitchen is. First thing I noticed is that it has this nice removable cutting board and then under that, you have a couple little accessories here. I love accessories. Plus, it has this cute little stand where you can put your sponge and then it drains back down here. It kind of looks like a ship wheel. If you look closely, you can see that there's little tiny jets back here where the water comes out, which is really nice for, like, rinsing and things like that. Now, they have chosen to do an LG appliance package. I'm, like, afraid to touch it. Let's see. Oh, it, like, lights up when you open it. Hello, FinnQ Smart Diagnostics. I, like, love hate these smart appliances because they do so much, but then I become overwhelmed. Let's check out these cabinets. Okay, okay. Nice and deep. I like that. I love that you can move these. It's, like, the simple things, right? Because sometimes, you know, some people might want to put dishes. Some people might want to put something else up there. This is a nice deep pullout cabinet. Here above the dinette, there are three overhead storage bins and then your beautiful dinette. The dinette pulls out to afford you more space and then these little cushions go in it. I won't put them in there, but you can understand. This goes in there and then that's the little back, so you have, like, that much more space. I do believe that this table pulls out. There is actually a charging port. Thank you, 4Travel. This is where you would, like, lounge, watch TV, hang out. What I love about this is that this section actually pulls out as well to afford for more space. Inside of here, you're just gonna flip this little button up and give it a yank and look how much more space you have. Also, an LG fridge. It has your variable ice maker right there. If you don't have one of these for your RV, I highly suggest investing in this. This keeps the doors from flying open when you're driving down the road. So, you just pinch it and you take it off and this little piece stays on, so then you have, like, access to your refrigerator, but tons of storage space. So, residential size, which is really important for our family because, with all of us, we eat. Storage up top, drawers below, and they're nice and deep. You can see they are, there is a lot of space in there. Right here in the hallway, before you get to your bunks, you have this little control panel that's hiding behind a door. This has your lock as well as your up and down for the bunk. This is our control panel for the entire coach. It's also going to control your AC and it has, like, all of your levels for fresh black and gray water, just like in most of your coaches. Here are the bunks and they are nice and spacious. And one thing I love about 4Travel Bunks, this was a really big selling point for us, was that they have their own little AC system, so the kids can stay nice and cool. Entering the primary suite, we have a nice big comfy bed. I love the accent lights. It's so modern. Now, both sides of the bed are going to have the little plug-in ports, which also has your AC, USB, and USB-C. Here in the master suite, there's the big TV right across from the bed. And then you have a ton of drawers, so there's really a ton of space back here. And last but not least, bathroom. Start here in the laundry facility. You have your combo washer and dryer in one. It is an LG signature. And then you have your closet above that, which I love, because you can either hang stuff here to dry or if you need extra closet space. And your egress door. I thought this was funny. The first time I saw this in an RV, I'm like, why on earth would you need a door behind the potty? Like, that just makes no sense to me. But then they explained it, that it's, you know, if you have a fire up front and you can't get out the front, and then it makes it an additional safety feature to be able to exit the back. So you hop over the potty and out you go. The closets are cedar-lined, which is really important, especially since you are in a bathroom. So it mitigates the moisture situation on your clothing. Let's check out the under sink. Oh, that's huge. You could fit so much stuff in there. And then you have your shower. So it has a nice little bench seat in this one and a high towel bar at the top. You have your skylight, which is not affording much light in here because we're in the expo center. But let me tell you, like, when you're out and you're traveling, it really does make a big difference. I love how the coaches come with these ottomans that are covered in the same fabric as the sofas because you can use them for multipurpose, right? They have a ton of storage space inside. You can also flip it over and it has these little cup holders inside with a nice little flat area so it becomes like a pseudo TV tray. This thing is an absolute beast. One thing that Ford Travel does that only the only other person that does it is Newell is the executive step. Most RVs, you step on them and they, like, move. You can jump on it and it doesn't move. Blackout wheels. I freaking love blackout wheels. We actually just bought it and we're having our new one converted to blackout. First bay is your cooler. So you have a Dometic dual zone cooler. That is awesome. We use ours continuously for all of our sodas and everything else at the campsite. You can do two freezers or you, sorry, two fridges, two freezers, or you can do different temperatures on each side. Second bay is storage. The light comes on with motion and it also has an electric slide out. It comes out like 70% or something like that. One thing cool about this new model, when they rebuilt the chassis with the Freightliner chassis, they rebuilt the bridge themselves. They raised it up and now you have complete storage space without having that frame coming down in the middle of your storage. So it allowed for an extra six inches of storage that you can slide in and out, which is complete game changer. Storage bay three is a larger slide tray. Also electric. Comes all the way in, all the way out. One thing that I love about Ford Travel that nobody else has, because it's as far as their height of their bay doors, they're also, their slides are a lot taller. So you don't hit your head. And since they're flush slides, you also don't have points on the edges like you do on all the other coaches and no bars for our kids to hang out. And then also because they're flush, they actually have an air seal that inflates and deflates whenever you're putting the slides in and out. So whenever you have the slides out, it inflates to 15 pounds per square inch all the way around and completely seals off the coach. So there's no excess air coming in or bugs or anything like that. This is the backside of your wet bay housing of a lot of your electrical, but they did build it out to where you can put more storage stuff in there. They have extra tiles in case one breaks. This is the backside of the other side of the wet bay, the sanitation bay. And this is where you can turn on and off all of your areas of water. In case you have a leak and you need to shut an area off, you can do that. Or if you're changing out something, you can shut off the kitchen, the bathroom, whatever it is independently. This is a passive steer tag axle. So it will actually turn with the coach to give you more or better turning radius all the way around. So you can make U-turns in the middle of a parkway. We have a side vented radiator for the X15605 Cummins engine, 605 horsepower, and it has a 20,000 pound towing capacity, which is killer if you're pulling a stacker or a large truck with a golf cart in the back of it, like some people. On this side, we have your emergency egress door, which is great. In case you have an emergency, you can exit, but also for packing and unpacking, you don't have to walk things from the bathroom all the way through the coach and out. You can just unload from right there, making it a lot easier. And I am 6'4", and I can stand completely underneath this slide out, which is insane. Wet bay, sanitation bay. This is where we shower the kids regardless. You also have a screen right here. You can see all of your levels, your generator, your AC power, exterior lighting, all that fun stuff. Behind this door is your black and gray tanks. This one does not have a combined. It is separate black and gray. Aquahot 600D, one of the largest out there. So you have pretty much endless hot water. All of your water hoses and power hoses are all on retractable reels for ease of use. This is going to be the backside of your large storage tray. And again, on this side is the backside of the other storage bay, all of your batteries. And they also decked it out to where you can use the top part as more storage. Storage was a big, big thing on this model. And then this is all your electrical and fuses and all the other fun stuff, but they still left room for storage. Your mirrors all have cameras. You have blind spot monitors. You also have emergency braking system. So if you get close to a car, it will stop the coach. Cameras up top, they're all painted to match the coach, which is great. I think they did a really good job with this paint scheme. It is, if you can look real closely, it has like a gradient across. So it goes like white to gray all the way down. Gives it a little shadow and it's kind of neat that way they did this. The lighted four travel symbol in the front. I love lights. So anything that has lights on it is killer to me. I love the accent lighting underneath, all the accent lighting in the windows, and then across the top of the awnings. And then the accent in the door is really cool. They changed it. I know on ours it has the four travel symbol and then it has lighting around it. This is kind of neat how it's kind of more ambiguous. And that's a wrap.