zudem ist der Fahrzeugabsatz sein Bekanntwerden um 50% eingebrochen.
Weder rosige Aussichten, noch mehr Klarheit, ganz im Gegenteil, jetzt wo die USA involviert sind!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/...on-mileage-fraud
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said orders for its vehicles in Japan plunged after revelations it committed fuel-economy testing fraud for a quarter century.
The daily orders the company got in Japan halved after the April 20 announcement, President Tetsuro Aikawa said at an earnings briefing Wednesday in Tokyo. “It’s only been a week so it’s hard to foresee how things will be going forward.”
The Japanese automaker, which delayed its profit forecast for the current fiscal year, said it’s carefully assessing the future impact from the testing irregularities. Aikawa said a day earlier that the carmaker had been improperly measuring the mileage of models since 1991, adding 11 years to the period of misconduct that executives initially disclosed last week.
U.S. Investigation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board also announced an investigation of whether models sold in the U.S. meet fuel economy regulations.
The EPA has instructed Mitsubishi to provide additional information on vehicles sold in the U.S. and will direct the company to conduct additional testing, EPA spokeswoman Julia Valentine said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday in Washington.
Mitsubishi Motors has yet to specify how many models the company certified without complying with Japanese law. The fraud already reported has also prompted a probe by U.S. regulators. The company’s board this week formed a panel of three ex-prosecutors to investigate for about three months. |
