Royal has had this on their website for over a year now. It's another working of TTI to debrand and merge everything from Royal, Dirt Devil, Hoover and Oreck!! I find it a little sickening actually!!
While I love the design of that machine which is basically a recolored Hoover Professional CH50020 which was a reincarnation of a headlight on a Hoover Guardsman upright and also return of metal base plate. It would be nice it TTI could keep that design as a branded Hoover.
I would like to see Hoover designs branded as Hoover, Royal designs branded as Royal and Oreck designs branded as Oreck. That way there is still more variety in the industry and uniqueness between the brands. TTI since taking over has been merging everything.
The $600 marketed Oreck Venture canister is essentially the same thing as a $249 Hoover Hush canister!