U.S. auto safety regulator looking into Mitsubishi fuel economy issue

The U.S. safety regulator said on Friday it had asked Mitsubishi Motors Corp for information on its vehicles sold in the United States, after the automaker admitted this week that it had manipulated fuel economy test results on some of its Japanese models. "We've requested information from Mitsubishi about this issue," a spokesman from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington told Reuters by phone. Mitsubishi Motors said it had overstated the fuel efficiency of 625,0