Drive device for motor vehicles

The device (1) has an angle drive (22) formed by a pinion shaft (24) driven by a drive shaft (23) i.e. propeller shaft, and a crown wheel (26) staying in engagement with a pinion head (25) of the pinion shaft. A rotation axis (27) of the pinion shaft runs transverse to a rotational axis (21) of a rotor (9) and the crown wheel. The pinion shaft with two pivot bearings i.e. roller bearings, is held in a housing. The housing is separately formed at another housing (6) enclosing the crown wheel. A part of the pinion head for meshing with the crown wheel is immersed into the latter housing.