Blue Renault Gordini: Fred (named by my brother’s friend)
Blue Honda CRX: Lance
Red Mazda MX5: Miss Hollywood
Gray VW GTI: Heinz Harald
Gray Mazda CX5: Totally Androgynous Pat (still tentative)
2007 Aveo LT.
My Little Red Jellybean.
I named my first car (silver Toyota Corolla) Silvergirl (from the Simon & Garfunkel song, “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”)
My next car, a red Ford Festiva, did not have a name, but I should have named her the Golden Hind, as she was struck from behind five times without ever suffering any damage, not even to the paint on the bumper.
My current car doesn’t have a name, but after this thread has inspired me, I’m christening her Jurassic Parker. She’s a 1993 Saturn. Name chosen for the following reasons:
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[li]She’s 20 years old (prehistoric!)[/li][li]She’s green[/li][li]I commute on public transit (so she spends a lot of time parked)[/li][li]Saturns are “extinct”[/li][li]She transported us on my first date with the girl who is now my wife – to see the movie Jurassic Park.[/li][/ul]
When I was a brand new English teacher with a brand new Pontiac Lemans, I named him “Wordsworth.” In a few years, that became “Turdsworth.”
My hunter green with camel top Jeep Sahara was “Clementine.” (She is lost and gone forever…)
My next was a candy red Chrysler Sebring with camel top convertible with the name “The Broad.” we kept her just a couple of years because she was so leaky.
Then I got a fire engine red Chrysler Sebring with camel top 13 years ago. I’ve never wanted to trade her in. Beautiful, wonderful car with no name. (Maybe it’s really a horse.)
I’ve never understood why people would name cars…
To entertain ourselves and our friends. That’s about it.
No, I also don’t name furniture, rocks, plants or body parts.