Europestar GEN2 Edition

    A recent lucrative export deal to China involving the Proton GEN2
has been cited as one of the ways to spearhead Proton’s recovery, as
most of you would know by now. Proton was to export 30,000 completely built up Proton GEN2 cars to China for Jinhua Youngman to rebadge under the Europestar brand, with a further possible 80,000 units to be assembled in China.

    Thanks to spyshots by Chinese automotive industry
website Cheshi, we now find out that the “localisation” of the Proton
GEN2 by Jinhua was not just limited to a left hand drive conversion and
swapping badges with the Europestar badge. The Europestar GEN2 gets a
completely new front fascia that looks like the poor car has jaundice, and the rear crop circle lamps get a similiar treatment.

UPDATE: Some of you may remember the spyshots of the facelifted Proton GEN2 due to be launched very soon. It too had a larger grille, although not as over the top as the Europestar version.