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English: Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Chinese name: 莲花L3 (liánhuā L3) Year of launch: 2007 (localized from 2009)

In 2007 Youngman and Proton started selling the Gen-2 hatchback as Europestar RCR (Jingsu) 'engineered by Lotus' in China, later followed by the Persona sedan (Jingyue). They were brought in as a CKD, thus prices weren't competitive and sales were poor. Youngman paid $50 badge royalty for the 'Engineered by Lotus' stickers. From late 2009 a localized version entered the market, which sold in much better numbers thanks to much lower prices. Later models include the L5 hatchback, L5 sedan and the T6 crossover, which was never finalized. These models were all based on the Proton Gen-2/Persona platform, but had unique styling. On February 25 Proton made a deal with Goldstar for the production of cars and engines, which meant Proton terminated the relationship with Youngman and the production of all cars stopped in the Summer of 2016 and finally resulted in the end of Proton cars in China, since the deal with Goldstar has had no results so far. There was another problem with Youngman, because the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers apparently stopped reporting Youngman Lotus sales numbers because they were "way off" from registration numbers.