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A small Chinese manufacturer, Jinhua Neoplan, has extended its agreement with Malaysian automaker Proton and now plans to begin assembling Lotus sports cars by year's end.The China Daily reports that Jinhua Neoplan, an affiliate of Zhejiang-based automaker Jinhua Youngman, expects to build up to 150,000 cars a year at its plant in Jinan. Among the cars it plans to assemble is the Lotus Europa, from knocked-down kits.
Lotus last year said it had an engineering contract with Jinhua Youngman to develop a four-door sedan for the Chinese market. That vehicle is a version of the Proton Gen 2, which will be rebadged as the Europestar in China. Lotus, which is owned by Proton, collaborated on a hybrid gas-electric version of the Gen 2 sedan.
Jinhua also has partnered previously with Iran Khodro on minicar production.
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