What is your favorite car "nickname"?

I looked for this question in the archives, but I couldn’t find it. Apologies if it’s been done before)

What is the best car name that you have heard?

My favorite is “the Anti-Christ” from The Gods Must Be Crazy.

The car I learned to drive in was widely known as “The Ghetto Sled.” Does that count?

I name all of our cars. Here are the current names:

Spot ~ he’s so old the paint is peeling off in spots
Turtle Blue ~ Civic wagon (really really looks like a turtle)
Snowman
Wooly Mammoth (don’t ask)
Raider
Dolphin ~ this pontiac squeaks like, well, a dolphin
Mickey Mouse
Grasshopper
Ruby

Names from the past:

Pepper
Old Faithful
Lil’ Tacky
Haiku
Killer Beetle ~ (volkswagen)
The Shark ~ 1964 Galaxy
Uddn’-uddin ~ 1966 ford truck

My all-time favorite: a high school friend had an ancient Dodge with a push-button transmission. The car had a tendency to wobble in the road, thus: Gandalf the Wanderer

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Umm… Kit? Kit was awesome…
And I have a 97 dodge neon. The little thing isn’t all that comfortable, but it is great for hauling shit. I stuff the trunk/backseats with stuff for a weekend out. I call it the Peon.

My Dad and I took a 3600 mile road trip in 1996. I named the car Ophelia, after the girl in Hamlet.

BIG mistake. The car barely made it back home. Two of our tires went flat in Georgia. The first, the front left exploded at 80mph at dusk. The water pump broke and my dad had to replace it at some strip mall in Georgia. The heater had to be on the entire trip to keep the engine from over heating and this was in July. And the hose that connected to the radiator nearly burst about 400 miles from home. Luckily we caught it in time, cut off the weak part and it was still long enough. It was still a great trip though. A true father-son bonding experience and I still love the name.

I had a '74 Beetle that I lovingly referred to as The Ratmobile.

My mini van is Jean Claude Damn Van.

Along the lines of the OP’s answer, one guy who called in to Car Talk had a car named the Anti-Chrysler.

The Grand Am I had in law school was called Jean Claude Grand Am.

My current car is The Deerslayer, after I hit two deer in ten weeks.

The car before that was Yolanda the Honda.

Someone once dubbed my 94’ intrepid The Pimptrepid because I always say how awesome of a car it is and no one else seems to think so.

My friend had a '67 Mustang called “One Trick”
I called myu Mustang “The Apocolypce”

I had an '89 Cavalier, Z-24, black, with a digital dashboard and stuff, and I called it Kitt (after K.I.T.T., the car from Knight Rider). I loved that car. It couldn’t talk, though.

Before Kitt I had a Subaru that I called the Bee (Subaru --> Subee --> Bee), and after Kitt I got a Plymouth Reliant that I hated and therefore refused to name (it was free, though, so I kept it until I got a better deal). Now I have a Jeep, and while it’s a lovely truck it doesn’t seem to lend itself well to a name. I might call it Bumble just because it’s big and white and bounces nicely over curbs. Bumbles bounce, you know.

My 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo was affectionately dubbed “The U-Boat”
We also referred to her as Bessy, or simply “The Monte”

I also had a Suzuki X-90 that was christened “Suzi-Q”

OMG! It’s my van’s long lost brother! :smiley:

One of my other cars - a 87 Toyota MR2 - was “Mister Two”. Not very original, but oh well.

Car names well lets see

I had a friend that had a '57 Tannus (German Ford) that was red in color. It was funny looking so we took to calling it the red abortion or sometimes just the abortion. On time I was on the phone in the lobby of my college dorm discussing with my buddy a road trip back to LA to get the car. When I hung up the phone several people who thought I was cruel to have such a cavalier attitude about an abortion yelled at me. :eek:

I had a Triumph Spitfire whose plate was UNA 509. A guy in my dorm told me that in Canterbury Tales that Una was the personification of truth. So the Spitfire became known as the Personification of Truth.

My first Volvo was known as Olaf the lazy.

Our dorm owned an old-style extended-chassis 6-door limousine that went by the name Buddy Bucket.

Vehicle #1(Mustang) : pony, ponycar,the stone pony
Vehicle #2 (full size truck) : the bucket, my hooride, hoopty hoo, the crummy

I’ve heard of a Honda being named Fenry.

I own a Mini Marcos. She is called Imelda.

I had an 84 Dodge Colt that I called PG Rollerskate because, well, it looked like a pregnant rollerskate.

On a related note, for a long time every car my best friend bought had something wrong with the passenger side door. You could only open them from the outside. I teased her about her serial killer KARma. :smiley: