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SERIEN ARCHITEKTUR UND AUTO • ARCHITECTURE AND AUTOMOBILE
Volvo XC90
Motor: Reihenvierzylinder, Automatikgetriebe
Max. Leistung: 173 kW/235 PS Beschleunigung: 0–100km/h in 7,8 Sekunden
Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 220 km/h
Vor Gut Hasselburg von Biewer Mau Architekten • In front of Gut Hasselburg designed by Biewer Mau Architekten Chief designer Thomas Ingenlath even succeeded in redesigning the radiator grille
Der Dallmayr to go findet bequem in der Mittelkonsole Platz. • Dallmayr coffee to go easily fits into the centre. the newer Mercedes models. The concave grille is unique and immediately recogniza-
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ebenfalls seit 100 Jahren kaum weiterentwickelte Verbrennungstechnik beatmet
wird. „Aus heutiger Sicht werden wir keine neue Generation Dieselmotoren mehr
entwickeln", sagte Vorstandschef Håkan Samuelsson zuletzt in einem Interview der
CO 2 -Emission: 149 g/km Frankfurter Allge meinen Zeitung. Volvo wolle deshalb in Zukunft auf die Elek -
trifizierung der gesamten Modellpalette setzen. Der XC90 erscheint daher wie der
Verbrauch: 6,2 l – 10 l/100 km Diesel letz te große Saurier, das Rentier…
Fahrendes Wohnzimmer oder wohldosierte Geländegängigkeit?
Im Inneren kann der Volvo mit einer üppigen Vollaustattung aus hellem Leder und
vielfältigen Elektronik-Extras überzeugen. Die Mischung aus fahrendem Wohn -
zimmer und wohldosierter Geländegängigkeit macht den Wagen zum idealen Bau -
stellen fahrzeug, mit dem wir auch bei unseren weiter entfernten Objekten in Berlin
oder Ost-Holstein die Baugrube inspizieren konnten, ohne aussteigen zu müssen.
Auf dem Rückweg Richtung Hamburg stelle ich mir nach einem anstrengenden Tag
mit Bau- und Planungsbesprechungen wieder die Frage, ob man ein knapp zweiein-
halb Tonnen schweres Gefährt fahren muss, dessen Automatikgetriebe bei 220
Stunden kilometer noch in den achten Gang schaltet, um sich 11 bis 12 Liter Diesel
auf 100 Kilometer schlürfend in den Reisemodus zu begeben. Ich schalte die
Massagesitze an und vergesse die Not wen dig keit einer Antwort auf diese Frage.
Zurück in Eimsbüttel wird der in Leder eingefasste Schlüssel (gleiches Material wie
die Innenaustattung des Wagens) an den Praktikanten übergeben, auf dass er am
gerade beginnenden Wochenende eine Lösung finde…
bonnet up to the forehead or the question: Does it really take a vehicle weighing
almost two and a half tons whose automatic transmission even changes into
eighth gear at 200 kilometres per hour to switch into the travel mode while guzzling
eleven to 12 litres of diesel per 100 kilometres? This question was still a long way off
when the Volvo XC90 – the large SUV from the Swedish manufacturer – for the first time
pushed its 20-inch rims down the cobblestone street where our office is located.
Nonetheless: Despite its beefy and elitist appearance, the outer image of the off-roader
has a pleasantly elegant shape. It was especially the first generation of the XC90 with
its clumsy enormous tail lights – similar to the first BMW off-roader X5 at the end of the
1990s – seemed like the first tentative steps on a new terrain. Whereas the classic lim-
ousines and estate cars from this manufacturer, almost without exception and during all
the years, were given timeless and high-quality designs, these clumsy boxy cars today
look like from the Stone Age. The XC90 sold since 2015 seems to have overcome these
teething troubles and presents itself with shapely lines and well-balanced proportions.
The radiator grille is immediately recognizable as a Swede!
which, after more than 100 years of automobile history, has already been shaped in
any form imaginable all the way to a front dissolving into individual dots in some of
ble as a Swede without – unlike the LED lighting or the other electronic gadgets of
today’s cars – wanting to cover up the fact that it serves to ventilate a kind of com-
bustion technology which has likewise hardly been further developed during almost
100 years. “From today’s perspective, we will not develop a new generation of diesel
engines”, chief executive Håkan Samuelsson recently said in an interview for the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. That was why, in future, Volvo in future would turn to
electrification for the complete range of models. The XC90 thus seems to be the last
large dinosaur, the reindeer …On the inside, the Volvo is able to impress with its com-
plete fittings of light-coloured leather and a variety of electronic accessories. The com-
bination of a living-room on wheels and well-measured off-road capability makes the
car an ideal vehicle for visiting construction sites with which we were also able to look
at the foundation pits of our more distant objects in Berlin or Ost-Holstein without hav-
ing to get out of the car. On the way back towards Hamburg, after a hard day full of
construction- and planning meetings, I keep asking myself the question whether one
really has to drive a vehicle weighing almost two and a half tons whose automatic
transmission even changes into eighth gear at 200 kilometres per hour to switch into
travel mode while guzzling eleven to 12 litres of diesel per 100 kilometres. I turn on the
massage seats and forget the necessity to answer this question. Back in Elmsbüttel, the
leather-framed key (the same material as the car’s interior fittings) is handed over to
the trainee so he might find an answer on the just starting weekend …