Lotus has revealed its 2012 car will be called the E20 in honour of it being the 20th chassis built at their Enstone factory.
Lotus, which raced under the name Lotus-Renault GP in last year's Championship, has used Enstone as its base since 1992.
It was there that Michael Schumacher's title-winning Benettons and Fernando Alonso's title-winning Renaults were built.
"Our naming of the chassis to recognise Enstone's importance to the team's evolution highlights our recognition of the contribution of the facility and the personnel who work tirelessly every year to produce the very best car possible," said team boss Eric Boullier.
"We certainly hope that this is the case with the E20 and we are looking forward to revealing the car to the world and seeing it out on track for the first time.
"There are a number of technical changes from last year and we have an exciting new driver line-up to extract the maximum from the E20 through the twenty grands prix of the 2012 season, including the 500th race for this team through its different incarnations.
"We hope that the E20 proves to be a performing Enstone design."
