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[comem47]

My guess it's either Elvis or Elvira.  

Edited by comem47, 06 August 2010 - 09:04 AM.

[gghc87]

Ok here's your starter for 10

Lotus Egil  a male Scandinavian name meaning  'Awe-Inspiring'

Lotus Etoile a French female name meaning 'Star'

Lotus Eris a Greek female name for the 'Goddess of Strife'

[yeller77]

épée : like in fencing

though I keep hearing a John Cleese voice saying " I am going for e pee..."  

[comem47]

If it can't be a person, than I can hardly think of a more virile name than the  "Erectile" or "Erection"  All will bow to its greatness as one passes by  

Then of course there is this name , but it's was already used for a car:  

Edited by comem47, 06 August 2010 - 02:14 PM.

[GavinS1]

Ecus

[Tony K]

Edge

What's my prize?  

[alan]

Tony - given that it has  to be 4 letters starting with E thats pretty good  

If you turn up at a track day you certainly will have an edge over the other competitors!

Alan

[Paul C]

Eros?

Echo?

Exel?

IMO they should give up on new E names as they will just end up being naff just for the sake of starting with the letter E.

T125 sounds good enough to me, like a race car chassis, just like the way F1 cars are named and remembered.


Flicking through foreign dictionarys trying to find anything starting with E to stick on it is a bit silly when you KNOW you have already milked the best E names.

[comem47]

Book "the Edge" for the unveiling ceremonies?  

[Vulcan Grey]

Still thinking Ethos...

[Hippo]

Ezra...

Essa...

I bet it ends in an 'A'

[matk]

T125 sounds like this to me!!



Lotus Elio ?

[BrazierD]

BrazierD, on 05 August 2010 - 09:25 PM, said:

To add to the speculation, I notice the "T" prefix, which as far as I know has only been used previously for the T127 F1 car ( though a "T" suffix was used for turbo-engined F1 cars?).  So perhaps the T125 is positioned as a derivative of the T127.  The numerical sequence doesn't really help, but then Lotus type numbers have never been particularly logical!

Another report claiming to be a "Lotus Press Release" just uses "125" which makes the "T prefix" ramblings look even less relevant.  It does say Takuma Sato and Jimmy Vasser will be there - Indy connection - not necessarily specifically for the 125 though.

http://lotusenthusia...n-monterey.html

I notice it says track and race car - not road after all - so the teaser picture with open wheels makes more sense.

[Bibs]

It's not a road car, it's too extreme for that.

[bingoking]

Ejac

Ewok

Ethl....  Think about it!

Edited by bingoking, 06 August 2010 - 11:32 PM.

[ifly]

I'm crap at this as my kids can tell you, naming people or things is not my strong suit and my Latin went to pot after I left Grammar school.

ell old unit of length equal to 45 inches
eigne first born
ensign large naval flag
eoan of, like or pertaining to dawn
epos epic poem
exlex outside the law - Maybe not this one sounds too much like ex-lax
eyas unfledged falcon or other bird of prey

If we really have problems with this we might have to suggest Lotus move to the letter "F" as there are some colourful short four letter words we could suggest that might stick

Edited by ifly, 07 August 2010 - 03:29 AM.

[Tony K]

Paul C, on 06 August 2010 - 04:29 PM, said:

Echo?

I like it!   And it has the two-syllable thing going for it.

ifly, on 07 August 2010 - 03:27 AM, said:

epos epic poem

Or maybe just Epic -- can be adjective or noun . . .




EDIT:  Hey, this is post #1977 for me -- same year my S1s were built!       ...and EDIT is a four-letter word beginning with E!    

Edited by Tony K, 07 August 2010 - 05:25 AM.

[Bibs]

Someone is really, really close with the name!

[alan]

What as close as one letter away?

[BrazierD]

Edge, Echo and Epic all sound OK - but maybe they're mis-spelling it to make it trademark-able - Ekko, Epiq etc?

Will it have a Cosworth engine, or a Cosworth-tuned one?  Nothing has yet come out of that annoucement a while back.

Well, we'll all know in a few hours.