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          Mitsubishi Reveals New Problem With Fuel-efficiency Testing

   by VOA News

   Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors said the company has been using an
   improper method to determine the fuel efficiency of its vehicles for 25
   years.

   Tuesday's admission by President Tetsuro Aikawa in Tokyo follows last
   week's revelation that Mitsubishi had falsified fuel-efficiency data on
   625,000 vehicles.

   Aikawa said the company's latest troubles occurred because it failed to
   update its testing system to conform to domestic standards.

   The issue was revealed as part of an investigation into scandal over
   false fuel-efficiency data.

   The first false data reports dated back to 2013, involving Mitsubishi's
   domestic eK Wagon and eK Space Custom light passenger cars, as well as
   the Dayz Roox vehicles it produces for rival carmaker Nissan.

   Data inconsistencies

   The problem was uncovered after Nissan noticed inconsistencies in its
   data.

   Mitsubishi has stopped selling the vehicles while it conducts the
   probe.

   The world's sixth-largest automaker has lost more than half of its
   market value since news of the fuel-rigging scandal broke.

   The company is no stranger to scandal. It nearly went out of business
   after admitting back in 2000 that it covered up major safety defects
   for several decades.

   Mitsubishi is the second carmaker accused of falsifying environmental
   data in the past 12 months.

   Germany's Volkswagen admitted late last year that it installed software
   on millions of its vehicles that activated bogus emissions controls to
   deceive testing officials.
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