Vehicle control system

A vehicle control system for a vehicle equipped with:

• a roof unit configured to cover a top of a passenger compartment and to be selectively openable and closable;
• a driving device to perform opening-closing drive of the roof unit;
• an engine capable of an idle-stop operation;
• and an air-conditioning device, the vehicle control system comprising:
• an opening-closing manipulator provided inside the passenger compartment and configured to accept opening and closing manipulations for the roof unit;
• and
• a controller configured to control the engine, the driving device and the air-conditioning device,
• wherein the controller is operable, when the opening and closing manipulator accepts the closing manipulation for shifting the roof unit from an opened state to a closed state, in a situation where the roof unit is in the opened state and the engine is in an operating state, to control the driving device such that the roof unit being in the opened state is shifted to the closed state, and inhibit the idle-stop operation of the engine, during a period during which the driving device drives the roof unit toward the closed state after the opening-closing manipulator accepts the closing manipulation.