"For several more months our year-over-year sales will continue to be impacted by our models whose production was completed last summer," said MMNA President & CEO Yoichi Yokozawa. May sales were 26 percent below the level of sales in May 2011.

"Mitsubishi i sales continue to grow every month," Yokozawa added, "and we are looking forward to next month when we will transition to domestic production in Normal, Illinois of our Outlander Sport."

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