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Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com)

Posted by msmash on from the driving-bad-examples dept.

An anonymous reader cites an article on CNN:The situation at Mitsubishi Motors just went from bad to much, much worse. The Japanese automaker admitted Tuesday that it had falsified fuel efficiency tests for the past quarter century (warning: annoying autoplay videos, alternate source), the latest revelation in a scandal that has rocked the company. The automaker said last week that it had used improper fuel economy tests on hundreds of thousands of vehicles, including some sold to Nissan. Cars with inflated fuel efficiency ratings were sold only in Japan. Mitsubishi said it would ask lawyers from outside the company to investigate the tests.

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  1. Somebody... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...will be committing sudoku over this.

    1. Re:Somebody... by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, it's pretty sad. Everything has aligned, and the numbers add up. They're boxed in.

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  2. Not for lack of trying by dadelbunts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mitsubishi execs later clarified that they tried to sell said cars in the U.S, but no one bought any.

  3. Thanks, Dicks by pablo_max · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear assholes,
    thanks a lot for waiting until we had to pay a crap ton of money to confess that everyone has been doing the same type of things more or less forever.
    yours truly,
    Volkswagen.

    1. Re:Thanks, Dicks by CAIMLAS · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dear Irrational Greenist,

      Shut up. Seriously. Please stop whining about companies doing things you simply don't have the knowledge or experience to comment on. The science of the topic of electric cars is quite well understood, and while electric cars have a place in the future, they are:

      * a net ecological loss over conventional ICE vehicles
      * severely niche in terms of distance capability, payload, and overall utility.
      * too technologically immature for mass production by any objective criteria
      * likely impossible to replace all ICE vehicles due to available battery technology, and/or the availability of lithium
      * a foolish long term move unless you like the idea of disposable vehicles
      * through regulation, further increasing in (all) vehicle costs well over inflationary rates as a direct result of additional regulation
      * completely dependent upon more destructive fossil fuels than cars (namely, coal - unless you're willing to cede the use of nuclear, first).

      -Some guy who probably doesn't give a fuck, right?

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