Vehicle control system

A vehicle control system to be mounted in a hybrid electric vehicle, the hybrid electric vehicle including:

• an engine;
• a center differential including a front-wheel-side output portion and a rear-wheel-side output portion and configured to distribute torque outputted from the engine to a front wheel and a rear wheel;
• a limited slip differential mechanism configured to limit a differential between the front-wheel-side output portion and the rear-wheel-side output portion;
• and
• a motor disposed in a drive-power transferring system configured to transfer drive power from the rear-wheel-side output portion to the rear wheel,
• the vehicle control system comprising
• a processor configured to, when the hybrid electric vehicle is switched from a first traveling mode in which the engine and the motor are both used as drive sources to a second traveling mode in which only the motor out of the engine and the motor is used as a drive source, stop the engine while causing the limited slip differential mechanism to limit the differential between the front-wheel-side output portion and the rear-wheel-side output portion.