A stop-state retaining arrangement for use in a motor vehicle, which includes a brake pedal for applying a braking force to wheels when depressed by a treading force, a clutch pedal for disengaging a clutch when depressed by a treading force, a cable connected, at its one end, to the clutch pedal, and a depressed stroke position holding mechanism connected to the other end of the cable, and arranged to be actuated to hold the brake pedal at the depressed stroke position upon depression of the clutch pedal, and to relieve the brake pedal from the holding at the depressed stroke position upon releasing the clutch pedal from the depression.