Mitsubishi Motors Weekly Report on Status of Measures for Past Repair Directives Tokyo, July 22, 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 sixth weekly report submitted by the company. Post-market measures for 52 cases related to merchantability After consulting with the ministry, MMC has decided to recall five of the 52 cases related to merchantability. MMC is currently preparing for the recalls and plans to submit the documents to the ministry on July 29. In line with its report on July 7, MMC has reconfirmed that none of the five cases has caused accidents or fires. Current status post-market measures for 30 cases already submitted As of July 20, measures had been implemented for 10.5 percent of registered vehicles for the 30 cases submitted by July 7 (compared to 7.1 percent as of the last report on July 14). To speed up the process, MMC will send staff to support dealers from August. Management of product information reports at dealers Based on talks with four dealers, MMC has found that the product information reports are kept together at the dealers head office. There are no rules for disposing of the reports and some of the remaining reports were found in files in storage areas.