Patent ID: 7001307

Claim:
A shift control apparatus for a vehicular automatic transmission, comprising a controller that: sets an automatic shift mode in which a gear stage is established based on a first vehicle operation information used for selecting a gear stage of the automatic transmission, and a manual shift mode in which the gear stage is established by a manual shift operation, the shift mode being manually selected between the automatic shift mode and the manual shift mode, and sets the gear stage upon selection of the shift mode from the automatic shift mode to the manual shift mode based on a second vehicle operation information which is different from the first vehicle operation information, wherein the controller selects the gear stage in a shift range having a highest gear stage corresponding to the gear stage set at the manual shift mode based on the first vehicle operation information, selects the highest gear stage at least one stage higher upon an upshifting operation manually performed, and selects the highest gear stage at least one stage lower upon a downshifting operation manually performed.