Suzuki has admitted to not following the rules when testing fuel efficiency – and its shares have nosedived as a result.
The stock mirrored the Mitsubishi plummet after it admitted cheating fuel tests.
The exact method used by Suzuki to skew results is yet to be revealed – the company merely saying that it “used an improper method” to test fuel efficiency.
Chairman Osamu Suzuki is set to report the issue to Japan’s transport ministry, company spokesman Hidehiro Hirano said. He also said that the company hadn’t found a flaw affecting the fuel efficiency of Suzuki vehicles but would not elaborate.
It seems to be a deepening issue with Japanese manufacturers, all of whom have been asked to investigate their handling of fuel economy tests.
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OPEL DEFENDS
General Motors is fighting its own allegations in Germany, with Opel accused of manipulating pollution control data, by Spiegel magazine, ARD television’s Monitor program and the environmental group Deutsche Unwelthilfe, who found software on Zafira and Insignia sedans cut off emission controls under certain conditions – such as going faster than 145km/h.
The company says the tests conducted were “wrong” and GM Opel division head Karl-Thomas Neumann said “we at Opel don’t have any illegal software.”
Opel is set to face a German government commission into possible emissions manipulation.
This will be a difficult accusation for Opel to defend in the wake of Volkswagen’s hugely-damaging diesel emissions scandal last year.
