Patent ID: 6910547

Claim:
An installation arrangement for a vehicle drive unit, comprising: an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine having cylinders arranged in at least two cylinder rows at an angle to one another, one of the cylinder rows being arranged to lie at least substantially horizontally; a transmission; an engine housing; a crankshaft mounted in the engine housing so as to lie in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; a parallel auxiliary shaft driven by the crankshaft for transmitting power to the transmission; input drive shafts for vehicle wheels; and an output driveshaft in operative connection with the transmission and the input drive shafts for driving the vehicle wheels, the crankshaft and the auxiliary shaft each being arranged in accommodating, vertically running planes at a distance from one another so that an auxiliary shaft plane (NE) which accommodates the auxiliary shaft is identical to a vehicle longitudinal center plane, and a crankshaft plane (KE) which accommodates the crankshaft is arranged offset at a distance from the auxiliary shaft plane to one side, the output drive shaft of the transmission being effectively connected to a wall of the engine housing.