Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinichi Sano

Toshio Tanahashi

Eiichi Kamiyama

Hideo Nagaosa

Shin Noumura

Keisuke Takeuchi

Tatehito Ueda

Yoshimitsu Agata

Hiroshi Tada

Tetsu Yamada

Toshio Itoh

Katsuhiko Aoyama

Toshihiro Yamazaki

A control system for a vehicle, includes: a controller that is configured to obtain an index on the basis of a running condition of the vehicle, to vary a running characteristic of the vehicle on the basis of the index, and to vary details output from an effect producing device, which applies a stimulus to at least part of five senses of a driver of the vehicle, on the basis of the index, wherein when a variation in the running characteristic because of a variation in the index decreases, quickness of a behavior of the vehicle, the variation in the index in response to a variation in the running condition is relatively delayed, as compared with when the variation in the running characteristic because of the variation in the index increases quickness of the behavior of the vehicle.

Control system for vehicle

An engine including an intermediate shaft which is driven by the crankshaft and drives the camshaft. The intermediate shaft directly drives an oil pump arranged above the trans-axle and drives an alternator and compressor through a pulley connected to the intermediate shaft and a belt. The intermediate shaft is arranged shifted in the lateral direction from the plane containing the axes of the cylinders.

Motor vehicle drive device

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Shinichi Sano