Motor vehicle door lock with a lock unit and a control unit which are separate from one another

Motor vehicle door lock comprising:

• a lock unit with mechanical lock elements including a lock latch and a detent pawl, and
• a lock mechanism with interacting elements in a control unit, said control unit being arranged at a spatially separate location from the lock unit in or on a motor vehicle door or hatch,
• wherein the lock unit is arranged on a motor vehicle door or hatch,
• wherein the lock unit is connected to the control unit by means of a remote power transmission means,
• wherein the detent pawl in the lock unit is mechanically actuated from an element of the lock mechanism in the control unit by means of the remote power transmission means,
• wherein an outside door handle arrangement is provided with an outside door handle,
• wherein the outside door handle are mechanically connected solely to the control unit by means of a second remote power transmission means so that the locking elements are actuated from the outside door handle only via the control unit, and
• wherein the remote power transmission means is a tension/compression power transmission means, wherein the second remote power transmission means comprises a Bowden cable having a core coupled both to the outside door handle and to a lock barrel of the outside door handle arrangement, wherein the core of the Bowden cable is movable from a middle position for an “unlocked” function into a position for an “open” function by pulling and into a position for a “locked” function by pressing, and is movable from the position for the “locked” function into the position for the “unlocked” function by pulling.