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Industryweek 11278 061716mitsubishilogotomohiroohsumi
Industryweek 11278 061716mitsubishilogotomohiroohsumi
Industryweek 11278 061716mitsubishilogotomohiroohsumi

Mitsubishi Motors Down $480 Million Over Fuel Scandal

June 17, 2016
The 50 billion yen mark is a special loss and a cost for payments to both Mitsubishi customers and Nissan, which discovered the scandal and recently forged an alliance with Mitsubishi.

TOKYO — Mitsubishi Motors said Friday that it will post a $480 million special loss for the current fiscal year to pay compensation to customers over years of cheating on fuel-economy tests.

Mitsubishi first admitted in April it had been falsifying the tests, manipulating data to make cars seem more efficient than they were. Since the scandal emerged, its sales in Japan have slumped and the company announced last month that its president would resign.

The scandal, reported to cover almost every model sold in Japan since 1991, also includes mini-cars produced by Mitsubishi for Nissan as part of a joint venture.

“We will post a special loss of 50 billion yen ($479.70 million)” for the year to March 2017, the automaker said in a statement, “as costs for payments to customers of our company and Nissan Motor.”

It has already booked 15 billion yen ($143.91 million) in payments to customers for the year ended in March.

Nissan first uncovered problems with Mitsubishi’s fuel economy data, but Mitsubishi has said that the company had no part in the cheating.

Yokohama-based Nissan threw a lifeline to Mitsubishi last month as it announced plans to buy a one-third stake in the crisis-hit automaker for $2.2 billion, forging an alliance that will challenge some of the world’s biggest auto groups.

For the past year to March, Mitsubishi posted a net loss of 72.6 billion yen ($696.53 million) and operating profit of 138.4 billion yen ($1.13 billion) on sales of 2.27 trillion yen ($21.78 billion).

Following the scandal, it has been slow to give a full-year earnings forecast for the current fiscal year, with the company now “estimating other (future) costs” related to the cheating, Mitsubishi said in the statement.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2016

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