Do you name your vehicles?

[AllegroRondo]

and if so, how do you pick the name?

My family certainly does. For years, I drove an old Ford Explorer, named Dora. Its one of those names that takes people a couple seconds to get. Dora the Explorer.

This was traded in for a Toyota Corolla, which was named "Crazy Joe", after my brother in law mentioned that it sounded like "Crazy Joe DeVola" from Seinfeld.

[MissMillie]

1. my new(ish) car is named Helen

for Helen Thomas

I name my cars after strong, intelligent, powerful women.

My Toyota Tercel was Hillary
My Toyota Corolla was Madaline

and now Helen.

[Jokerman]

2. "Shithead"

My high school girlfriend was trying to convince me that my car needed a name when the fuel line clogged and the engine came to a stop.

From that day on my car was named "shithead".

[MAGICBULLET]

15. that's great!

mine was "shorty shitstain" - it was tiny and brown, and unfortunately passed away last month R.I.P.

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. I jokingly called my mother's 1974 Chevy Vega "Shithead."

:rofl: :thumbsup: For the same reasons you describe, and then some. GMTA and all that... :rofl:

[Jokerman]

35. Mine was a '74 Maverick

Of all the "shithead" cars built in 1974, the Vega and the Maverick take top honors.

I was behind a co-worker driving her Vega into work one morning and in the parking lot I asked her, "how many miles does your Vega get to the quart?" She replied "Quart? You mean gallon." I shot back with "No, I mean QUART OF OIL. I could barely see for the blue cloud coming out of the tailpipe."

Payback sucks though, a few years later I bought a '66 Corvair convertible. It leaked oil so bad my friends named it the "Chevy Valdez".

[Kali]

39. heh (warning misogynist word in body of post)

Had a friend in High school with about the same age Vega - is was known as the "Pussy Vega"

[underpants]

3. A buddy of mine had a Ford Grenada that he called

"The Commie Fighter"

Yeah I still have names for my car. The current one is the Millenium Falcon because you have to know how to drive it.

[City Lights]

4. Our kids named them.

My husband's VW Passat is Chitty (self-explanatory), and my Honda Accord is Billie (Billie Joe Armstrong).

[femmedem]

5. The Blue Bird of Paradise.

May she RIP. :cry:

Ancient blue Volvo, later relegated to home for feral cats.

[grace0418]

6. Absolutely. Our Honda Civic is named Charlotte, just because.

Our Subaru Outback is named The Todd, after a character on Scrubs. He has a cargo net in the back that we call the "banana hammock". If you watch the show, you know why.

Our old Honda Accord was named Edmund, after a video game character Edmund Honda.

[havocmom]

7. Havocdad's former vehicle was evidently called 'Don't die you bastard!'

The new one has no name.

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

8. When I was a kid we had an old Pontiac Starchief

that we lovingly called the "Old Bomber." God, that was a great car. I think my dad paid $50 for it. It didn't have any seatbelts and when we'd go around corners quickly my brother and I would slide from one side of the back seat to the other. We thought that was the greatest.

[LSK]

9. only when Im mad at them

Then its the shitbox.

[InvisibleTouch]

10. Always.

I've named the family car since I was old enough to form the words, and have continued to do so with my own vehicles. I pick the names the same way I pick pets' names - I just wait for the right one to "come to me." And it generally happens very fast. I also get a sense of whether the vehicle is "male" or "female" or "neither," if that makes any sense, and that's how I think of him/her/it. It likely means nothing at all, beyond a way of personalizing one's stuff, but if it makes life a little more pleasant, where's the harm? Some people name their computers, for instance (I don't).

My current vehicle's name is Starduster, or Duster for short. :)

[cwydro]

11. I call my truck

Rad.

[Justpat]

12. Oh yeah.

I have had the non pleasure of owning the Green Latrine, Lurch, Cream Sickle, Uncle Uh Oh,
Famous Flame. Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

[Jimbo S]

13. In my youth a friend called his "The Fuck Cruiser".

but I don't think it actually worked for him.

[Kali]

14. yeah but most of them start with "Piece of Sh......"

or "That F***ing...."and end in "Ford" or "Dodge".

[AlCzervik]

16. i just named my new car, 1st time i've ever done that.

and many people have asked me, i guess Beetle owners tend to name their cars, anyway i call mine Morticia, thats what my husband calls me because i wear a lot of black and since my bug is all black it seems to fit.

[ileus]

17. The jeep is "purdy prudy"

[u4ic]

18. Other than "that piece of crap",

no...:shrug:

[RebelOne]

19. I call it all kinds of names when it breaks down. n/t

[bridgit]

20. ours is 'little green car'...

[NMDemDist2]

21. yes, they have *all* been named Betsy

ok, ok so I don't have much imagination but at least I'm never embarrassed by calling then the wrong name

:rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

23. That seems to be an incredibly popular name

my wife named her last car Betsy, and my mom has had several.

[NMDemDist2]

24. actually I lied, I did have a 69 Caprice we called the Tuna Boat

but that's a whole different story.......

[AllegroRondo]

25. do tell!

:popcorn:

[NMDemDist2]

28. ok, but don't blame me if it gets deleted

as you probably know a 1969 Caprice is a BIG car. this particular car had a bad steering grommett at the time that made it handle a bit strangely. she tended to drift a bit

anyway, myself (the Lady bartender) and 4 of the gals who ran cocktails in the club were going someplace (damned if I remember why we were all together in the car, but we were) and we were all a bit tipsy

OK a LOT tipsy

and I'm driving and commented that the damned car handled like a big boat

and one of the gals in the back said..........






























"Yeah and with all these &^&#$#^& (a term that refers to a woman's external reproductive organ)in here, it smells like a tuna boat"

and there you go, it was called the Tuna Boat for as long as I had it after that


:rofl:

[fizzgig]

22. my car does not have a name

but that old volvo wagon definitely a she. our backup car, an old wood-paneled station wagon, is named murray. the first time i met him, he said 'hi, my name is murray.'

[skygazer]

26. Usually

My present vehicle is a funny looking little thing (Chevy Aveo hatchback) named Pugster.

I previously had a Mazda named Max (short for Maxine - it was female).

Prior to that, I had an '85 VW Golf named Jezebel.

And before that, it was a Nissan Maxima whose name I've forgotten (edited to say Patrick! It's name was Patrick) but the onboard voice who said, "Left door is open", "right door is open" was named Shirley.

And my first car was a Honda CVCC named Ralph.

[bertha katzenengel]

27. our Corolla is Earnestine Tomlin -- but lately I've been calling her CALGON

:)

Named Earnestine because we were trying to come up with a name when Earnestine came up on the radio.

"Calgon" should be obvious to anyone of a certain age.

[hippiechick]

29. Yes - Scooter, Skeeter and now Xanax ...

Scooter was my little '94 Nissan Sentra who thought she was part Sherman Tank ...
Skeeter was her sister, an '01 Sentra,
and Xanax is my '06 Scion Xa - so named because she's small, reliable, inexpensive and relaxing. :)

[Flaxbee]

30. we cruise around town in Daisy the Daewoo -- she's a great

little town car, excellent gas mileage. She's got a pink daisy attached to her antenna.

[Ikonoklast]

32. My Chevy Suburban is 'Godzilla'

mostly because it's green and huuuuuge.

My work truck, an International 9400 Eagle, is bright red, hence, on the back of the sleeper, is her name, "The Killer Tomato".

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Not usually, unless the car warrants it.

:P My sister and I got a secondhand car from our great aunt who decided when she was in her 90s that she couldn't drive any more. It was a 1973 Plymouth Fury III, and it was metallic pea green with a dark green vinyl top. We got it in 1983, when I was a junior in college (sis was a sophomore). I called it the Metallic Pea, which is from National Lampoon's Vacation. :P :rofl:

[mikeiddy]

34. Undercar was a car I had in college

A well used and rusted out Fiat 124 wagon with a bad muffler and a propensity to inexplicabley refuse to run unless left alone for an hour or so. . .

[RubyDuby in GA]

36. My current baby is Anna Mae

As in Anne Mae Bullock - or Tina Turner, because my car is totally kick-ass like she is!

[SeattleGirl]

37. My daughter named mine.

It's a black '99 Taurus, which she dubbed The Stealth Mobile.

[Dervill Crow]

38. My Chevy van was named Vanessa.

I have a friend whose car is named Fenry Honda.

I haven't found an appropriate name for my Chevy Cavalier, although I frequently talk to her, e.g., "Come on sweetie, you can do it," when she's trying to shift into 2nd. We had her transmission rebuilt and it just isn't the same.

[Ilsa]

40. Yeah, my husband's truck is called Ice-Shelf-Melting-Pig by me. nt

[bleedingheart]

41. our ford wagon (escort) was called the "grey mouse"

we call our minivan..."the Sienna"...not original...but Sienna is a name...

The Prius is still new...but needs a name...I call it the eggmobile now...but it just doesn't seem right...

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

42. My second car, a '80 Plymouth Volare, got the name Aluminum Pelican

Because one cold night, it sounded just like the Millennium Falcon did when Solo tried to get her started on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.
(I just knew Solo was flying a Chrysler product. That winter night confirmed my suspicions.)

My car was an ugly beige color, and Lucas is known for his massive legal team, so we had to change the name a bit.

[doc03]

43. I had a 1977 Chevy Blazer called it a "Piece of Shit"

[bigwillq]

44. Yes. My car is named Flipper.

:)

[mark414]

45. i had an '81 VW Rabbit that got dubbed "The Ripper"

by my brother...cause it looked like shit but was fast as all get out - i used to embarrass and beat the pants off of many a newer car that tried to race me in that thing...i miss it, to say the least

[ikojo]

46. Yes, I have named my scooter

My Vespa LX 150 is named the Yoda scoot only because I become calm when I am on my scooter.

[Orsino]

47. My Prius is named Alice...

...after my late cat. It's round and gray, an speaks to me with a sweet voice.