Patent ID: 7908065

Claim:
A control apparatus of a vehicle, comprising: an engine; an automatic transmission which changes a rotational speed of the engine, wherein the vehicle having a sport mode and a normal mode as running modes; a detecting portion that detects a state of the vehicle according to an operation by a driver; a calculating portion that calculates, based on the detected state of the vehicle, a degree of quickness count with which the driver requires the vehicle to behave; and a control portion that controls shifting of the automatic transmission based on a shift condition while keeping the rotational speed of the engine equal to or lower than an upper limit rotational speed, wherein when the degree of quickness count is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, the control portion switches the running mode from the normal mode to the sport mode to change the shift condition and increase the upper limit rotational speed, and maintains the changed shift condition and the increased upper limit rotational speed until a predetermined returning condition is satisfied, and the control apparatus further comprises changing portion that changes the returning condition based on the degree of quickness count.