In a driving force control apparatus of a vehicle of the present invention, a calculation portion of a meter_ECU outputs a mode selected by a mode selection switch or a temporary switch to a calculation portion as a request mode and has a multi-information display 12 display the mode selected by a driver. A calculation portion of an E/G_ECU outputs the request mode to a throttle control calculation portion and a transmission control calculation portion as a control mode for throttle opening-degree control and transmission control of a transmission with a driving force characteristic of the corresponding mode. A control mode arbitration calculation portion forcedly switches the control mode to a normal mode during warming-up driving or when a shift select lever is set to an R range. At this time, display of the request mode is not switched but the mode selected by the driver is displayed.