The F2114 appears to have been out for a while - and there still isn't any detailed information on their website
It has been in production for about 4 months. My understanding is that currently there is a one year wait list. If you tell me what F2114 details you are looking for maybe I can help you. There are several F2114 owners in the Altoistes group on Facebook. I dislike Facebook intensely but it is the only online place I have found where I can make contact with Alto owners and I have learned a tremendous amount from that group in the past almost two years.
Neither is there any mention of providing service, only a listing of their Canadian sales team/locations.
Service for Canadian customers is through their Canadian dealers or at the factory in Quebec. US service is done as I described above. I know this because I verified it with Safari Condo. I agree that their website is not as informative as it could be.
US sales are stated as "factory direct"
As I described above, US buyers can pick up their Alto at the Quebec factory or if you live in a state bordering Canada through one of their Canadian dealers. You have stated you are in Texas. Based on my experience dealing with Safari Condo you would have to take delivery in Quebec. I know many Alto owners in the US who did that.
Both Safari Condo and Bowlus Road Chief appear to have products that should be interesting for Model X owners, but neither makes it easy to research the details on their products - especially if you aren't able to find one locally to look at...
We've been able to get all of the information we've needed to evaluate an Airstream - and see one in person. Proving to be more difficult to evaluate the other options...
Airstream is a US company that has been in business for over 80 years and as you know they have dealers all over the US.
Safari Condo is a Canadian company with no US dealers but many very happy US customers based on what I have read on the private “Altoistes” Facebook group (and I’ve met several of them in person). I have not met or communicated with a single unhappy Alto owner. I researched multiple trailer manufacturers before buying my Alto and was able to see two Altos in person (an R1723 and an F1743, made contact with the owners through Facebook and arranged meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area) before placing my order. After 16 months of waiting for delivery and 6 months of ownership I believe I made the right choice for me. In fact, as I write this, my wife and I are camping in our Alto F1743 near Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California and loving it.
Bowlus is a much smaller company than Safari Condo, as near as I can tell. They appear to make an extraordinary premium quality product, at a high price, so they are addressing a much smaller market. In the US it is very likely more challenging to see a Bowlus in person than an Alto because there are relatively fewer Bowlus trailers that have been built (I don’t know the total number, but would guess it is less than 100). In contrast, Safari Condo has built more than1400 Alto trailers since 2007 but probably less than twenty F2114 models. Of course Airstream has likely built tens of thousands of trailers over the years.
If you want a more conventional and certainly more convenient trailer purchase experience, Airstream clearly offers that compared to Safari Condo or Bowlus.
Bowlus has an office and showroom in Santa Barbara, California. Someday, while driving to Southern California, I plan to stop there and see a Bowlus in person. It’s a very compelling design. I’ve seen many Airstreams of course, and have been to a dealer in Fairfield California. They are very nice, but I decided that the Alto F1743 better fit my needs. I am quite interested in the F2114 and would like to see one in person.
