An agency spokeswoman said the EPA has “instructed Mitsubishi to provide additional information” regarding vehicles sold in the U.S. “The agency will also be directing the company to conduct additional… testing for vehicles”, she said.
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The news outlet said all of the cars affected by the scandal were sold in Japan, including several Nissan models.
On 20 April, Mitsubishi issued an official declaration that evidence unearthed from internal probe indicated that fuel mileage test data for several models of vehicles had been falsified.
The company, which also makes the Outlander sports utility vehicle and the i-MiEV electric auto, has arranged for a panel of three lawyers, including a former prosecutor, to further investigate the mileage scandal from an outsider’s point of view.
A Mitsubishi spokesman did not respond immediately to a query from Edmunds asking about the EPA order.
Mitsibushi, Japan’s sixth largest automaker, suffered a plunge since it admitted the scandal, decreasing the automaker’s market value to 427 billion yen ($3.85 billion).
Mitsubishi Motors is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter results on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Cycle & Carriage Automotive said last week models sold in Singapore were not affected. It previously said such non-compliance went back to 2002. This indicates that the embattled automaker may have been aware of its method’s illegality even back then, the sources said.
The German company last week reported its first annual loss for two decades after its provision for the scandal increased to €16.2bn (£12.7bn). The latest revelation comes after the Japanese automaker said last week that it had altered mileage tests on about 625,000 light vehicles.
On Tuesday, the company released a statement saying it submitted data that was non-compliant to the transport ministry of Japan since 1991.
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It comes amid widening concerns over irregularities among global vehicle makers following Volkswagen’s admission that it cheated on diesel emissions tests.
