Mitsubishi Admits Past Cover-Ups, Announces Massive Recall
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Mitsubishi Admits Past Cover-Ups,
Announces Massive Recall
Wednesday, August 23, 2000
By
Yuri Kageyama
<FN_ARTICLE> TOKYO -
For years, employees at Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
tucked consumer complaints about auto defects away by the dozen in
a special place. That was the file known to workers as "H," for
the Japanese word for "secret" or "defer."
According to Transport Ministry official Yukikazu Komiyama,
Mitsubishi Motors was hiding about 64,000 consumer complaints.
The complaints by Japanese consumers were never reported to
authorities - they stayed filed, awaiting clarification,
explanation or documentation that usually never came.
The defects, including failing brakes, fuel leaks,
malfunctioning clutches and fuel tanks prone to falling off, were
fixed on a case-by-case basis to avoid any humiliating recalls.
As it announced another recall Tuesday affecting 88,000 cars and
trucks, half of them in the United States, Mitsubishi acknowledged
the long-time cover-up.
In documents submitted to the government, the automaker said the
practice dated back to 1977 and was carried out with the full
knowledge of workers, managers, even one current board member.
The revelation is a blow to the struggling automaker, which is
likely to face an uphill battle regaining consumers' shattered
faith in its ethics and the quality of its vehicles. Last month,
the heavily indebted automaker signed a deal to sell
German-American DaimlerChrysle
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>Mitsubishi Admits Past Cover-Ups,
>Announces Massive Recall
I stopped buying anything Mitsubishi years ago, including small
electronics, like VCRs, because of their horrendous plan to build a
salt processing facility at San Ignacio Lagoon -- one of the last,
pristine, whale-breeding/watching areas off the coast of Mexico.
It is, BTW, a Mexican natural history preserve that should never have
been considered in the first place.
It took years, and enormous numbers of complaints to the Govt. of
Mexico and of Japan, as well as to Mitsubishi itself, plus a petition
signed by nearly a hundred Nobel Laureates, to kill the project.
This announcement does not rekindle my enthusiasm for Mitsubishi, to
put it mildly!
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