{"id":171,"date":"2009-03-09T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-03-09T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:19:11","slug":"lotus-expands-chinese-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/lotus-expands-chinese-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus expands Chinese Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/europestar-persona_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/europestar-persona_1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Europestar Lotus Persona\" title=\"Europestar Lotus Persona\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Europestar Lotus Persona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Youngman Lotus, a joint venture between Youngman Auto and Lotus Engineering, has started expanding its Lotus-brand sales network to cover China&#8217;s first-tier and second-tier markets by setting up 100 4S stores nationwide by the end of this year. The network will initially focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gasgoo.com\/auto-news\/1008648\/Youngman-rolls-out-Lotus-RCR-at-Guizhou-base.html\">Europestar Lotus RCR (Jingsu)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcarfans.com\/9081118.013\/lotus-engineered-europestar-persona-launches-at-guangzhou-auto-show\">Persona (Jingyue)<\/a> models. The ventures manufacturing bases in Guizhou, Shandong and Hangzhou all will be starting mass production this year, with a combined capacity of 450,000 vehicles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/europestar-rcr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/europestar-rcr-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Europestar Lotus RCR\" title=\"Europestar Lotus RCR\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Europestar Lotus RCR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gasgoo.com\/auto-news\/1009555\/Lotus-sales-network-to-cover-tier-1-tier-2-market.html\">Gasgoo.com<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotusenthusiast.net\/2009\/03\/lotus-expands-joint-venture-in-china.html\">Lotus Enthusiast<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngman Lotus, a joint venture between Youngman Auto and Lotus Engineering, has started expanding its Lotus-brand sales network to cover China&#8217;s first-tier and second-tier markets by setting up 100 4S stores nationwide by the end of this year. The network will initially focus on the Europestar Lotus RCR (Jingsu) and Persona (Jingyue) models. The ventures &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/lotus-expands-chinese-joint-venture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lotus expands Chinese Joint Venture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,14,1],"tags":[110,292,313,327,578],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}