Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is struggling to overcome its severe financial and management troubles as its rivals speed ahead.
While the Mitsubishi group has boosted the struggling automaker's capital by about 500 billion yen, MMC sales remain low despite this being summer-bonus season and thus usually a time of increased demand.
MMC executives have said they intend to recoup the losses by marketing a new car in the fall, but a sense of gloom pervades on the sales floors.