Patent ID: 8649949

Claim:
A vehicle shift control apparatus that is operable in a vehicle including a plurality of driving force modes in which an engine generates a driving force in response to an accelerator operation, and, as control modes of an automatic transmission connected to the engine, an automatic shift mode in which a gear ratio is automatically controlled according to predetermined shift characteristics and a temporary manual shift mode in which a gear ratio can be temporarily selected from among a plurality of predetermined fixed gear ratios through an operation of a shift switch when driving is performed in the automatic shift mode, the apparatus comprising: a cancellation condition storage unit that stores condition data for cancellation of the temporary manual shift mode which vary according to the plurality of modes; a cancellation condition determination unit that, in the temporary manual shift mode, selects cancellation conditions for the temporary manual shift mode corresponding to a current mode and makes a determination as to whether the cancellation conditions are satisfied; and a control unit that returns the temporary manual shift mode to the automatic shift mode when the cancellation condition determination unit determines that the cancellation conditions for the temporary manual shift mode are satisfied.