To provide a four-wheel drive system which improves running performance of
an automotive vehicle by inhibiting a driving torque from becoming
insufficient upon occurrence of a slip.An R slip sensing means of a DC
motor torque calculating means senses a slip due to a spin of rear
wheels. When the rear wheel slip is sensed, an R slip DC-motor-torque
correcting means corrects a torque of the rear wheels so that a driving
force of the rear wheels is reduced and then increased. The R slip
DC-motor-torque correcting means reduces a driving torque of the rear
wheels to eliminate the slip and holds the reduced driving torque until
the slip is eliminated, and then increases the driving torque to a value
lower than a value which the driving torque has taken at the time of
occurrence of the slip. The driving torque is increased to a
predetermined limit value depending on the number of slips.