Patent ID: 6896641

Claim:
A method of controlling an automobile including a drive power source for producing a drive power, a gear transmission means incorporating a plurality of gear trains, and a plurality of torque transmission means incorporated between a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft, at least one of the torque transmission means being a transmission torque changing means and at least one thereof being a meshing transmission means, in which a speed change from one gear train to another gear train is carried out by controlling the transmission torque changing means, comprising the steps of, during gear release in which at least a part of a transmission torque of gear trains is released by transmitting at least part of a torque from the drive power source through the transmission torque changing means to shift the meshing transmission means to a release position for releasing gears, applying a load in a direction in which the meshing transmission means is shifted toward the release position before the transmission torque of the gear trains is completely released, and shifting the meshing transmission means to the release position when at least part of the transmission torque of the gear trains is released.