Abstract: According to the invention, a motor vehicle control device is provided, comprising: a microkernel; several entities; and a software bus, via which the entities can communicate with each other and with the kernel, wherein one or more of the entities represent respectively one or more modules of the AUTOSAR base software. The present invention is based inter alia on the idea of representing the AUTOSAR architecture on a microkernel-based architecture. Thereby, the motor vehicle control device according to the invention makes it possible for example to link infotainment applications with AUTOSAR-based applications.