Road vehicle

A motor vehicle comprising:

• a drive unit for driving the vehicle;
• a drive unit control device for driving the drive unit;
• a sound generator comprising:
• a housing, an electroacoustic converter arranged in the housing, the electroacoustic converter comprising a membrane, which separates a rear volume from a front volume within the housing, a membrane drive for driving the membrane and an emission pipe connecting the front volume acoustically and fluidically directly with an emission space, which emission pipe emits the sound generated by the electroacoustic converter during the operation of the sound generator, the emission pipe comprising an emission pipe outlet, the sound generator being arranged in a front space of the vehicle, which the front space adjoins towards a passenger compartment of the vehicle, the emission pipe outlet facing in a direction of the passenger compartment, wherein the sound is emitted in said front space via the emission pipe, the passenger compartment being separated from the front space via structure, the emission pipe being located in the front space, the emission pipe outlet being located at a spaced location from the passenger compartment;
• and
• a generator control device coupled with the drive unit control device driving the electroacoustic converter, the generator control device driving the membrane drive as a function of a current operating state of the drive unit.