Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors forged the data about the efficiency of some of its models. According to the newspaper El Mundo, has said the company’s President Tetsuro Aikawa.
According to him, the Corporation had violated the rules of conducting the tests, the documentation specified information about lower fuel consumption. In this regard, the manufacturer stops selling to all the circumstances and apologized to customers and shareholders.
Inconsistencies were found in compact models (with engine capacity of not more than 666 CC and running on gasoline), we supply mainly to the Japanese market. This is the eK-Wagon and eK-Space, manufactured and sold directly by Mitsubishi Motors, as well as the Dayz and Dayz Roox, developed jointly with Nissan. Since 2013, has sold 625 thousand such cars.
Average fuel consumption for these models ranges from 3.35 to 4 liters on 100 km it is Assumed that the figures were underestimated on average by 5-10 percent.
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