CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH MANUAL TRANSMISSION

A plurality of engine characteristics corresponding characteristics is stored to change an engine required output in accordance with an accelerator opening degree corresponding to a gear stage established in a manual transmission. A map gear stage changed vehicle speed to switch the engine characteristic to an engine characteristic on a low gear side is allocated to each engine characteristic. In a clutch release state where the shift manipulation of the manual transmission is in progress, when the vehicle speed is reduced and the vehicle speed is reduced to the map gear stage changed vehicle speed allocated to the engine characteristic currently selected, the engine characteristic is switched to the engine characteristic on the low gear side.