VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE

A vehicle control method has: driving a vehicle entering a cruise control mode to travel at a cruise target speed corresponding to the cruise control mode; determining whether a torque strength outputted to a power system of the vehicle is greater than or equal to a predetermined torque strength and is continuously outputted for a predetermined period of time when the vehicle does not travel at the cruise target speed; and changing the cruise target speed to a current speed of the vehicle when determining that the torque strength outputted to the power system of the vehicle is greater than or equal to the predetermined torque strength and is continuously outputted for the predetermined period of time.