What do you name your car?

My 2000 Toyota Echo is named Marica Alora.
She’s hot, red and ready to go.

My sister named her last car “That Fing Bch ss Piece of St”
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.

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.

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.

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)

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?”

Mine’s Lola Corolla.

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”.

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.

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! :slight_smile:

Tenebras

Ruby, after Monica Ganas. Oh, yeah, the car is red too.

Naming cars is one of the many cultural differences between the US (North America, perhaps) and my country. :slight_smile:

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? :smiley: 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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.)

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.

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.