Drive assembly for motor vehicles

A drive assembly for a motor vehicle having a vehicle body, comprising:

• a forward engine supported in engine support bearings on a vehicle body, so as to be movable in respective vibration excited vertical and horizontal directions,
• a rearward drive unit supported at said vehicle body by at least one elastic drive unit support bearing,
• a central support tube extending between the drive unit and the engine,said support tube being rigidly connected with the drive unit and being movably connected with the engine by way of a flexible tube connection joint, and
• a drive shaft extending inside the support tube between an engine output shaft and the drive unit, said drive shaft and engine output shaft being drivingly connected by a torque-transmitting joint located at and inside the flexible tube connection joint,
• wherein the torque transmitting joint and flexible tube connection joint provide for vibration uncoupling of the engine and drive unit by elastically supporting relative angular movement of the engine and support tube in respective vertical and horizontal vibration excitation directions of movement of the engine with respect to the drive unit;
• and
• wherein the flexible tube connecting joint comprises a flexible disk bundle arranged between a neck of an engine power block and a face of the central support tube, said flexible disk bundle being connected by way of separate fastening points with the central support tube and with the neck of the engine power block.