BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : OCTOBER 9, 2000 ISSUE
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INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Diamante in the Rough? Car owners maintain that Diamante sedans have a tendency to lurch backward when parked or put in reverse. Mitsubishi Motors denies there is a problem. Here are some cases: May, 1999 A 1998 Diamante accelerates backward while driver is slowly backing into a garage. The car just misses the operator's grandchild and smashes into a gate. In following months, it happens twice more. September, 1999 Shigeo Toyoda parks his four-month-old Diamante on a Tokyo street. Before he can turn off the engine, the car jumps back suddenly, hitting an empty van parked to his rear. June, 2000 Shigeji Tsugahara, a taxi driver in Saitama with 35 years' driving experience, is backing into a parking spot when the engine of his new Diamante revs up unexpectedly, and he rams another car parked three meters to the rear. July, 2000 Sadao Ito is about to back his Diamante into a space on the fifth floor of a supermarket parking lot in Tokyo. When he puts the car into reverse, the car jumps back, veering to the right and crashing into a pillar. But for the pillar, the car would have crashed through a railing and fallen 15 meters to the ground. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS A Cover-Up at Mitsubishi? (int'l edition) TABLE: Diamante in the Rough? INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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