Patent ID: 7878936

Claim:
A drive train for a motor vehicle, which has a front axle and a rear axle, of which the front axle is driven constantly and the rear axle is driven as required, with: a drive unit which is installed in the motor vehicle transversely at the front and provides drive torque via an output member, the output member being connected to and coaxial with the constantly driven axle; an angular gear which is arranged in the region of the front axle and is coaxial with the front axle and is connected to a cardan shaft which serves for transferring drive torque to the rear axle; and a friction clutch arrangement for cutting in the axle driven as required; wherein the output member of the drive unit is connected to an input member of a transverse differential gear, the output members of which are connected respectively to a left and a right shaft of the front axle, wherein the friction clutch arrangement is designed as a cut-in clutch for the rear axle, wherein the input member of the transverse differential gear is connected, furthermore, to a hollow-shaft arrangement which is connected to an input member of the cut-in clutch, and wherein an output member of the cut-in clutch is connected to the angular gear wherein the friction clutch arrangement is arranged on a side of the angular gear which lies opposite the side on which the output member of the drive unit is arranged and wherein the friction clutch arrangement is coaxial with the front axle.