Mitsubishi Motors suspends sales of various models after data manipulation scandal – El Periodico de Mexico

Chieko Tsuneoka and Sean McLain, The Wall Street Journal

TOKYO (Dow Jones) – Mitsubishi Motors Corp on Tuesday suspended sales eight car models in Japan after the Ministry of Transport of the country reported that the company overstated data saving fuel.

the ministry has required the group to correct the information, which has deviations up 8.8%. The company said it will stop selling eight of its models for two weeks.

In April, Mitsubishi confessed that he had falsified data fuel-saving four car models sold in Japan, two of which had manufactured for Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. with this latest announcement, the total number of models recalled in connection with erroneous data fuel economy is 12.

the group CEO, Osamu Masuko he said that the blame for falsifying the data was lax oversight of management. Japanese

law requires automakers to conduct road tests to gather data on fuel efficiency. However, in some cases, Mitsubishi admitted that the data obtained through computer calculations in an attempt to save costs

Mitsubishi announced Tuesday that it would allocate 7,000 billion yen (US $ 68.4 million) more. – -after preorder yenes– 150,000 million to compensate the owners of the affected models and its partner Nissan.

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