Youngman

Youngman (officially China Youngman Automobile Group Co., Ltd.) ( ) was a Chinese manufacturer of buses and trucks located in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. The company was founded in 2001¹ by Pang Qingnian and also used to manufacture automobiles. However, its passenger car business appears to have ceased operation by mid-2015.

Youngman (officially China Youngman Automobile Group Co., Ltd.) ( ) was a Chinese manufacturer of buses and trucks located in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. The company was founded in 2001 by Pang Qingnian and also used to manufacture automobiles. However, its passenger car business appears to have ceased operation by mid-2015. ==Name== "Youngman" is an English literalization of the name of the company's founder, Pang Qingnian. ==History== Youngman was founded in 2001 by Pang Qingnian. In the early-2000s the company formed joint ventures with two German companies - a bus manufacturing venture with Neoplan (at the time known as Gottlob Auwärter GmbH & Co. KG) and a truck manufacturing venture with MAN. After an increase of orders, the manufacturer has built plants in the cities of Jinan, Tai'an, Lianyungang, Quzhou and some other places to meet the high number of orders. In September 2006, Youngman established a joint venture with the Iranian state-owned carmaker Iran Khodro for the manufacture of Iran Khodro's Samand and Soren models at Youngman's Tai'an plant, with parts supplied by PSA Peugeot Citroën. In September 2016, Shanghai Buses filed a formal complaint regarding 245 YoungMan JNP6120BEV trolleybuses being delivered with installed battery capacity less than the declared capacity. In October 2019, Youngman formally completed the bankruptcy process, with eight people in the group also being prosecuted for related crimes. ==Products== ===Passenger cars=== Youngman sold passenger cars in China under the Youngman-Lotus marque. Products included the L3 and L5 models, and are engineered with the assistance of the United Kingdom-based Lotus Engineering. Products are listed as below: Youngman Lotus L3 Hatch Youngman Lotus L3 GT Hatch Youngman Lotus L3 Sedan Youngman Lotus L5 Sportback Youngman Lotus L5 Sedan Youngman Lotus T5 File:Youngman Lotus L3 hatch China 2012-05-02.jpg|Youngman Lotus L3 Hatch File:Youngman-Lotus L3 GT hatch 3 China 2015-04-06.jpg|Youngman Lotus L3 GT Hatch File:Youngman-Lotus L3 sedan China 2015-04-18.jpg|Youngman Lotus L3 Sedan File:Youngman Lotus L3 as racing car 2013.jpg|Youngman Lotus L3 Rally Car 2014 File:Youngman-Lotus L5 Sportback China 2015-04-06.jpg|Youngman Lotus L5 Sportback File:Youngman-Lotus L5 01 China 2018-03-20.jpg|Youngman Lotus L5 Sedan File:Youngman Lotus T5 (23).JPG|Youngman Lotus T5 ===Coaches and trucks=== Youngman produced coaches and trucks in collaboration with the German MAN Truck & Bus. Coaches are sold under the Youngman and Neoplan marques. Trucks are sold under the Youngman and MAN marques. JNP6120GR, JNP6120BEV1 and JNP6105GR - single deck buses based on Neoplan Centroliner platform JNP6120BEV1 - trolley buses based on Neoplan Centroliner JNP6250G - multi-articulate bus based on Neoplan Twinliner JNP6180GM - single articulate bus based on Neoplan Twinliner JNP6137S - double decker bus based on Neoplan Skyliner File:JNP6120G.jpg|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6120G bus in Hangzhou File:Beijing Bus Rapid Transit.jpg|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6180G bus in Beijing File:Citybus1833 11.JPG|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6120GR bus in Hong Kong File:J2B-0023 at Tianmu E Rd, Zhejiang N Rd (20151004100740).jpg|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6120BEV1 trolleybus in Shanghai File:JNP6137.jpg|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6137 Skyliner double decker bus near Incahuasi, Chile File:Youngman Bus 3-16E (139) (2).jpg|A Youngman-Neoplan JNP6120GC bus in Thailand ==External links== Official website

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