VEHICULAR DRIVE APPARATUS

Provided is a vehicular drive apparatus such that the development of shock upon engagement of a manual clutch can be decreased in a manual clutch-equipped vehicle. The apparatus includes a clutch-synchronizing timing engine torque calculating unit that calculates a clutch-synchronizing timing engine torque on the basis of a clutch transmitting torque; and an engine control unit that executes torque balancing control by controlling an engine so as to achieve the clutch-synchronizing timing engine torque when the absolute value of a clutch difference rotation speed, which is a difference rotation speed between an output shaft and a transmission input shaft during clutch synchronization, is converged to or below a first prescribed differential rotation speed.