Press Release

Mitsubishi Motors Weekly Report on Status of Measures for Past Repair Directives

Tokyo, July 7, 2004 — Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) today submitted its weekly report to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the current status of recalls and other improvement measures stemming from past "repair directives," or so-called shiji-kaishu. Today's report is the fourth weekly report submitted by the company.

July 7 recalls and improvement measures

MMC today submitted eight recalls and one improvement measure with the ministry, finalizing all 30 cases related to past repair directives. In its original report, MMC said it would submit six of today's nine cases as recalls and three as improvement measures. However, the company has since decided to submit two of the improvement measures as recalls, raising the total number of recalls related to repair directives to 28 from 26 and reducing the number of improvement measures from four to two. The overall number of cases remains unchanged at 30.

	Date submitted	June 4	June 18	June 30	July 2	July 7
Recalls (28)	No. of cases (accumulated)	1	10 (11)	8 (19)	1 (20)	8 (28)
	No. of models (Accumulated)	2	10 (11)	10 (15)	1 (15)	14 (25)
	No. of units (accumulated)	115	50,837 (50,952)	12,501 (63,453)	48,718 (112,171)	53,926 (166,097)
Improvement measures (2)	No. of cases (accumulated)		1			1 (2)
	No. of models (Accumulated)		1			8 (9)
	No. of units (accumulated)		12			43,504 (43,516)

N.B. No. of units for Japan only

Summary of defect information for 52 cases related to merchantability

MMC has looked into defect information contained in 55,000 product information reports dating back to April 2001 held by MMC and 75,000 product information reports from before March 2001, which MMC collected from dealers.

The company is currently checking to see if any of the 52 merchantability cases contain defects related to accidents or fires. MMC is working with the ministry and will take the appropriate steps needed by the end of July.