The scandal of the Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors to manipulated consumption at microcar goes back much further than previously thought.
Mitsubishi has used an improper test method since 1991, as the company announced the transport Ministry in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Motors had been tampered with microcars recently confessed, however the start initially dated to the year of 2002.
had affected 625 000 cars for the domestic market. 468 000 cars which were built for the rivals Nissan Motor. The Japanese Renault partner had discovered the manipulation of consumption values.
Nissan itself made consumption tests were deviated from the data that Mitsubishi Motors had presented to the authorities. The discrepancy was five to 10 percent. The consumption of the cars would be around five to ten percent have been higher if properly approach as Mitsubishi Motors had indicated.
Mitsubishi used here according to media reports, a test method that find use in the US and save time in Japan but is not allowed. In addition, Mitsubishi calculated in some cases, data for rolling resistance, without having to carry out tests.
The whole car industry is currently under pressure. VW had tampered with a software exhaust test on diesel vehicles. Worldwide affected eleven million cars. Exhaust remeasurements of the Federal Motor Transport Authority as a result of the scandal had forced German carmaker to a “voluntary recall” of 630 000 cars. The technique for purifying exhaust gas at certain temperatures must be changed.
Mitusbishi taught a committee that is staffed by experts from outside the company and to go to the scandal on the ground. A report is expected in three months. The production and the sales of the models has already been stopped. Although the scandal is different from the Volkswagen so afraid industry experts nevertheless impact on the image of Mitsubishi.
It is not the first scandal at Mitsubishi. Already more than a decade, the group had confessed to decades systematically covered up defects in vehicles. In addition, the Group should have recalled a long time cars in the workshops, without as required to notify the Ministry.
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