Mit dem VW-Kastenwagen “Crafter” auf die Baustelle
18. Januar 2012 | 
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Wenn VW und DaimlerChrysler ihre Rivalitäten bei Seite legen und in Kooparationsarbeit umwandeln, dann gilt es in Kennerkreisen aufzuhorchen. Volkswagens Pendant zu DaimlerChryslers Sprinter heisst Crafter und lässt das Herz einer jeden Spedition höher schlagen.
Das Vorgängermodell VW LT wird nun abgelöst und bekommt einen Namen, der in jedem Falle zur wirtschaftlichen Leistungskraft des Kastenwagens passt. Der Crafter (von “crafting” engl. für “von Hand fertigen) ist ein Nutzfahrzeug, dessen Einsatzmöglichkeiten vielseitig sind.
Dazu trägt nicht zuletzt ein ausgeklügeltes Baukastensystem bei, welches es möglich macht dutzende an den jeweiligen Einsatzort angepasste Modelle zusammenzustellen. Grundmodelle sind der Crafter 30, 35 und 50. Darüber hinaus gibt es mehrere Modelle mit Überlänge, oder mit höheren Dachvarianten.
Es wird spezielle Craftermodelle geben, die gezielt auf Einsatzkräfte ausgerichtet sind. So sind Abschleppwagen, aber auch moderne Polizeiwagen in Planung, die neben schusssicherer Panzerung auch mit einer Spezialbox für Maschinenpistolen ausgestattet werden.
Doch wie der Name schon sagt, wichtigste Käufergruppe des VW Crafters bleiben die Industriebetriebe. Egal ob Großunternehmen, oder Mittelstandsbetrieb, der Crafter eignet sich durch seine Leistungsfähigkeit und Flexibilität hervorragend um angestaubte Fahrzeugflotten aufzufrischen und in eine neue Ära zu überführen.
Den eindeutigen Vorteil gegenüber alten Modellen stellt im Industriebereich der vergrößerte Ladungsraum dar. Der Crafter wurde mit über 25 Prozent mehr Laderaumvolumen ausgestattet.
Schon lage gilt die Sparte der Nutzfahrzeuge im VW-Konzern als eine der zentralen Säulen des Unternehmens. Entsprechend intensiv wird auch die technologische Entwicklung dieses Bereich fortgeführt. Die Crafter-Modellreihe von VW ist hierfür ein typisches Beispiel.
Gastautor Manuel Kowalski
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![pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: "Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada."In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times."Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote "Stop the madness" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6907299869_90b5012410.jpg "pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: \"Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada.\"In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times.\"Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote \"Stop the madness\" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)")
