I was wondering why all lotus cars names starts with the letter "E"? Except the ones with numbers of course.
Now that is a good point
Pure coincidence?
LOT OF TROUBLE USUALLY SERIOUS = LOTUS
Been debated loads of times in Lotus circles... no-one's sure 'exactly' how it came to be, but the general consensus is that it started
with the Lotus XI.
There was confusion surrounding what to call it... was it an X-I, was it an Eleven, was it the one-one, etc, etc.
Chapman favoured the 'Eleven' approach, as he felt it rolled well off the back off the word Lotus, as did other words that started with the
letter 'E'.
Then it just became habit on the road cars. People will cite the 340R as being 'different', but it's a variant of the Elise... the
Elise 340R (340 being the BHP per ton they wanted - but failed to achieve).
The name Elise was given by the Italian chap who owned Lotus and Bugatti in the mid-90's. He named the car after his granddaughter!
My favourite has to be the 'Exige'... French for demand!
Maybe theres a connotation to drugs there? 
Maybe the same reason each day of the week ends with a Y...
Hope skootz is right as it sounds a great explanation to something that I have always wondered about . Barry
[Edited on 6/9/09 by LBMEFM]
I think names are so much better than the modern trend of using numbers.
Just take my immediate family. The "boy" has a "6", his partner a "5", and they're selling the "2".
I have a "3", and building a "7".
Now how boring is that? 
A bloke in the pub the other night said he had a 323! We thought blimey, he runs three cars.
Cheers
Paul G
quote:
Originally posted by 907
I think names are so much better than the modern trend of using numbers.
Just take my immediate family. The "boy" has a "6", his partner a "5", and they're selling the "2".
I have a "3", and building a "7".
Now how boring is that?
A bloke in the pub the other night said he had a 323! We thought blimey, he runs three cars.
Cheers
Paul G
quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
quote:
Originally posted by 907
I think names are so much better than the modern trend of using numbers.
Just take my immediate family. The "boy" has a "6", his partner a "5", and they're selling the "2".
I have a "3", and building a "7".
Now how boring is that?
A bloke in the pub the other night said he had a 323! We thought blimey, he runs three cars.
Cheers
Paul G
Paul
There's more than a little irony in your post...
(Or should I call you 907 ? )