Nissan Motor Co. and Thailand

domestic sales: That gap is poised to widen substantially because the company has stopped assembling the minicars that make up a majority of its domestic sales and are now the subject of a probe involving faked test mileage data, according to The Japan Times. Keeping business humming in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will be crucial for MMC to weather the crisis that may necessitate the offering of compensation to customers, the Japanese government and minicar partner Nissan Motor Co. Paced by Thailand-built Triton pickups and Pajero SUVs, Mitsubishi Motors sold more than twice as many vehicles in Southeast Asia than in Japan for the fiscal year ended March 30. This, too, will be no easy task. It a matter of what happens sooner — Thai sales come back, or all the compensation demands come first, Koji Endo, an analyst with Advanced Research Japan, said by phone. Toyota Motor Corp. has projected Thailand industrywide sales will fall for a fourth straight year, to about half the peak reached in 2012. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.