Sit like a king and sprint to 100 faster than supercars from not even a bizarrely long ago. It's all possible with the Rolls-Royce among vans.
Buying an MPV is often not a voluntary choice. It is the ideal way to accommodate many people, especially large families, in one car and for that you need that space. Also, no attention is really paid to sportiness and that kind of nonsense: you have to have some reserve to push the weight forward, but you can forget about driving behavior and groundbreaking drag strip times. Unless you buy an S-Max 2.5 or R63 AMG, but those cars will never be the best platform for the engine used from a performance standpoint.
Luxury MPV
Once you have the basis for a large MPV-like car, you can also choose to design that space very generously for fewer passengers. That idea seems to be catching on in Asia. Toyota has been building the Vellfire and Alphard, two very luxurious 'vans' for many years. China adopted this idea and the market for converted luxury V-Classes is unprecedented there. That is why Chinese brands are now also getting started and we already knew the results of Geely subsidiary Zeekr.
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Zeekr 009 Grand
In fact, the Zeekr 009 makes it possible for Volvo to build the EM90, which will also be sold locally. And that's a pretty luxurious thing, so Zeekr now comes with its own alternative in the form of the Zeekr 009 Grand. And in this version the luxury is truly unprecedented.
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From the outside, the Zeekr 009 Grand does not shout from the rooftops about what is going on inside. In fact, the tinted rear windows make it seem as if nothing is happening at all. Only the Rolls-Royce-esque manhole cover rims and the LiDAR scanner stand out, otherwise the Grand is slightly more modest than the normal 009 due to the black lacquering of that gargantuan grille. Speaking of those tinted windows: they are electronically tinted, Zeekr calls it 'curtain glass'. You can ensure that they only transmit 0.5 percent light in the most tinted setting. You can choose from ten levels of tint.
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Four-seater
From a practical point of view, the Zeekr 009 is more of a traditional MPV. Six chairs that are still arranged in good comfort. The Grand is therefore less practical in terms of how many people you can take with you, but oh so more spacious in terms of space for the people you do take with you. The two luxury seats of the second row move to the middle of the third row, so there is room for a partition to shield you from the driver and more legroom than an Amsterdam apartment costing 1,000 euros per month. There is also a built-in camera system that turns this room into a kind of mobile conference room.
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The normal 009 already had a large television screen in the back that you could lower down, just like the large screen in the back of the new 7 Series. The divider in the Zeekr 009 Grand makes room for something much larger, namely a 43-inch (!) large screen. Some cars have a Yamaha engine, the 009 Grand has Yamaha speakers. 31 pieces, that is. Combined with the 43-inch screen, you can convert your Pathé subscription to a Pathé Thuis and watch films in the back of your bus.
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The seats of the Zeekr 009 Grand consist of eleven cushion layers and are adjustable in 24 ways. From lounge chair to comfortable armchair: it's all possible. Folding tables, a refrigerator and all kinds of screens to operate the functions are fairly well-known features. What we see less often: marble decorative pieces made from Himalayan marble, finished and polished by hand. Oh yes, and you get a built-in flower pot with flower! Go ahead.
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Comfort and speed
Just like the normal 009 and the entire Zeekr brand, the 009 Grand has a fully electric drivetrain. The normal 009 could sprint to 100 in 4.5 seconds thanks to 544 hp. The e-motors of the 009 Grand have been further upgraded to an impressive level 789 hp. The Grand sprints to 100 even faster, in 3.9 seconds! That is as fast as the Ferrari 360 Modena. Thanks to the 800V architecture, you can recharge 500 kilometers of driving range in 12 minutes, while the full range is about 702 km according to the Chinese WLTP called CLTC.
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But buying a luxurious MPV for its speed is a bit like eating healthy at McDonalds: it is possible, but then you have actually made the wrong choice. Don't worry, Zeekr has designed the 009 Grand in such a way that it can be fast and comfortable. The bus completely smoothes out bumps to achieve what Zeekr calls 'the ride quality of a magic carpet'. This is the result of air suspension with two air chambers, but also the LiDAR scanner that maps the irregularities of the road and adjusts the dampers within milliseconds so that you do not even feel bumps and potholes.
To be honest, there is something cool about an uber-luxurious bus meant to pamper passengers until the end. Unfortunately, in this case it is only cool for the Chinese, who can buy the bus for 789,000 Chinese renminbi (104,172 euros).
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