Vehicle control device

A control device of a vehicle,

• the vehicle including:
• a drive source for generating torque as a driving force;
• wheels;
• a driving force transmission shaft provided in a driving force transmission path extending from the drive source to the wheels;
• and
• an accelerator position sensor for detecting a depression amount of an accelerator pedal,
• the control device performing:
• one of estimation and detection of a torsion angle of a first end portion of the driving force transmission shaft at a drive source side with respect to a second end portion at the wheel side;
• an instruction to the drive source to generate a first torque corresponding to the depression amount of the accelerator pedal when the depression of the accelerator pedal is determined to have started based on a detection result of the accelerator position sensor;
• and
• an instruction to the drive source to generate a second torque when a change rate of the torsion angle is determined to have inverted from a positive rate to a negative rate for the first time after the depression of the accelerator pedal is determined to have started, the change rate of the torsion angle determined based on the acquisition result of the torsion angle, the second torque being lower than the first torque.