2026 Grand DesignImagine XLS 17MKE

The Imagine XLS 17MKE is the most compact floorplan profiled here and one of the cleverest in the line. Its defining feature is a queen Murphy bed: it folds up against the wall during the day to turn the front of the trailer into open living space, then drops down at night. Paired with a rear kitchen and a single slide, it gives a 22-foot couples' trailer a sense of room that its footprint shouldn't allow.

It rides on Grand Design's laminated aluminum-framed construction — gel-coated fiberglass walls over an aluminum cage with rigid foam insulation (R-7), a one-piece roof membrane with a limited lifetime warranty, and a heated, enclosed underbelly with suspended tanks. The XLS line's signature is what comes standard: a 200-watt rooftop solar panel with a 30-amp charge controller and a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, so the trailer is genuinely ready to camp off hookups out of the box.

At 4,921 pounds dry with a 6,395-pound GVWR it leaves 1,474 pounds of payload, and it tows comfortably behind a wide range of medium-duty SUVs and half-ton trucks. For couples who want Grand Design's residential finish and standard solar in the smallest, most towable XLS package — and who value the flexibility of a Murphy bed — the 17MKE is the natural entry point to the line.

Grand Design's Imagine family — the premium-mainstream volume leader and the industry's perennial owner-satisfaction front-runner. It spans three sub-lines: the lightweight Imagine AIM, the medium-duty Imagine XLS (standard rooftop solar), and the residential flagship Imagine. The 17MKE on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full family runs more than thirty floorplans; the highest-demand layouts across XLS and the flagship line are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.