# What do you name your car? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944 "2003-05-04T00:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BytopianDream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@BytopianDream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BytopianDream)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/41 "2003-05-05T18:55:53Z")
My 2000 Toyota Echo is named Marica Alora. She’s hot, red and ready to go. My sister named her last car “That F_ing B_ch _ss Piece of S_t” She got into 6 wrecks in that one car over three years. And she’s not a bad driver. Don’t know many people that name their cars except for us. ---
**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/42 "2003-05-05T21:23:56Z")
Oh, I forgot this one. My parents named one of the cars once. It was a Black, late-80s Ford Aerostar Van. My youngest sister had a thing for “Wheel of Fortune” at the time, and named the car “Vanna Black”, and the name stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/43 "2003-05-05T21:32:43Z")
My cars all had names: A Mazda named “Ozzie” (as in, Ozzie Mazda, it made sense to me at the time) A flat grey POS Chevrolet Capris named “Monstro” (after the whale in Pinocchio) A green Toyota pickup was “Midori” (Japanese for green) My current car is a non-descript Honda who is “Nameless” My folks had a Volvo named “Gerta,” and a bright orange Dodge which was “The Squash,” I guess over time they stopped naming their cars, but I carried on the tradition. ---
**Author:** ![WhiteyFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@WhiteyFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhiteyFoo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/44 "2003-05-05T22:04:02Z")
All my vehicles in order: 1989 Ford Taurus Wagon - The Shaggin’ Waggin’ 1983 Ford Bronco - Ron Jeremy (It was big & ugly) 1984 BMW 318i - Adolf 2000 Suzuki Bandit 600 - Kathy 1971 Ford Bronco - Bunny (think Power Puff Girls and you’ll get it) 1995 Kawasaki ZX6R - Speedy 2000 Mitsubishi Montero Sport - Shaft 2003 Kawasaki EX250 - Mike Wazowski (little, green & 1 headlight) ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/45 "2003-05-05T22:19:44Z")
We have two vehicles in the Sylver family. One’s name is \*\*Mine, \*\* and the other’s name is **Your’s.** When hubby and I are getting ready to leave, I always ask, “Mine, or Your’s?” ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/46 "2003-05-05T22:24:46Z")
Mine’s Lola Corolla. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/47 "2003-05-05T22:39:14Z")
My friends and I call my mom’s car the Anniemobile if that counts. My best friend has a 92 Grand Prix (hence the 92gp in my sn, and my siggy)which he considers mine as well because we’re inseperable. We affectionately refer to her as “Baby”. ---
**Author:** ![MarkD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@MarkD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkD)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/48 "2003-05-06T01:12:20Z")
Trouble I get in Trouble I bring Trouble to work I bring Trouble home, there’s trouble in the garage… I have had Trouble since 1983. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/49 "2003-05-06T02:47:24Z")
Hehe… when I was a kid we had a Gremlin named Stripe. And my first car, a 1979 Volvo (16 year old boy, 16 year old car…), a big boxy number that was supposed to be white but, since I think I washed it once in a whole year, was really more of an off gray, I called Bessie. Usually when she wouldn’t shift. Man, that was a cool car. And hella fun in the parking lot in the snow. Rear wheel drive = yaaaaay! 🙂 Tenebras ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/50 "2003-05-06T02:57:35Z")
Ruby, after Monica Ganas. Oh, yeah, the car is red too. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/51 "2003-05-06T11:41:29Z")
Naming cars is one of the many cultural differences between the US (North America, perhaps) and my country. 🙂 Perhaps people do it in the Anglo countries, I don’t know. But it’s always unheard of here. A friend of mine names all his cars “Jean-Luc”, after the Star Trek captain. How nerdy can you get? 😃 But he’s the only one I know of. My car is called Peugeot 306. That’s what it says on the paperwork, and that’ll have to do. Peu, for short, on a good day. My bike (Yamaha Diversion) can be refered to as Yammie or Divvy, but that’s hardly naming it either. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/52 "2003-05-06T16:35:09Z")
I’ve always named mine - the first was “The Nissan Sentra of Love” (based on a theory a friend had that any noun could be made into a believable song by adding the words “of Love” to it; also, it was a play on words of my college nickname, J-Love). The NSOL was succeeded by Iron Heinrich, a Dodge Shadow so named because I’d just read Grimm’s Fairy Tales, it was green like a frog, and Chrysler had just become a German company. Current car is a white Mazda 626 that was named Blanquita by its (her?) previous owner, who forbade me from changing the name. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/53 "2003-05-07T02:54:06Z")
I just got my first car. It’s a blue 1986 Chevy Caprice, 2 doors, and power everything (and it all works), and very little rust. It’s named Ruth. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/54 "2003-05-08T01:16:53Z")
My first car was a 1978 (I think?) corolla, green with a red door, and she was called Palmolive (Because she is green. Or something. I didn’t name her.). My second car, which is a mazda 323 (1986/7), is called Guv or Guvvie (because of her licence plate). ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/55 "2003-05-08T04:01:52Z")
My first car was a 1978 Chevy Chevette. His name was Petey. I loved him and lost him. Poor Petey, he blew up on the interstate while my sister was driving him, I never even had a chance to say good-bye. Oscar is my 2000 Honda CRV, he is good to me and I am good to him. He has a nasty little bump on the hood right now because we hit a deer last month but other than that he’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/56 "2003-05-08T11:23:34Z")
My first car: Tinkerbelle- a Dodge Shadow. (It was baby blue and small. Second car: Morgan LeFay- Ford Escort (Cute, but evil.) Current car: Yertle, the turtle of Dr. Suess Fame- a Dodge Colt (Slow as old glue, but it gets there.) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/57 "2003-05-09T02:20:37Z")
Not much of a stretch here: I called my first car The No-Go, because it was a Nova. And my current car is a Dodge Daytona, AKA the Dodgy Daytuna. ---
**Author:** ![DemonSpawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@DemonSpawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944/58 "2003-05-09T10:34:40Z")
Cool - until now I thought we were weird … Our first car was a bright yellow Fiat Cinquecento (500), we called it “Tweety”. The replacement was an equally yellow Fiat Seicento (600), called “Tweety 2”. Now we have a dark blue 2002 Nissan Almera, which we have named “blaue Elise” (blue Elisa), which is the name of the aardvark in the German-dubbed version of the “ant and aardvark” cartoons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-name-your-car/172944.md?page=2)