[Closed] Giving a car a name

My three year old differentiates between my car and my wife's car by calling mine the racing car. Sometimes he calls it lightening McQueen.

It's a Volvo v70 and I haven't got the heart to burst his bubble but some day he's going to learn the sad truth.

Naming a car is not good.

My 4yo son named my 205 Rosie Chocolate Cake, quite like it.

My Berlingo is called Brian.

My car is called golf.

George the bus - 86 VW camper
Bessie the beast - 87 VW Syncro
Eric - 69 Beach Buggy
Clifford - 72 Scimitar
Gertie - 69 Beetle
Winnie - 60 Bay VW camper
Cilla - 72 Beetle
George - 69 Beetle

and they were just my cars!

Fiesta = fessie

Polo = Paula

Old polo = ickle car

Golf = gund ( due to number plate ) or flog ( golf backwards )

Works van = the vansss ( as in Lou and Andy off little Britain )

Yep we are sad 😳

everyone of them has been "the motor'
works best in Lanarkshire accent.

Fiesta - Red (It was red)
Fiat 500 - Ross (It was also Red [Rosso?])
Hyundai Veloster - Banana Mobile (Its bright yellow).

Can you see where this is going.

My cars have been called (by her) shed on wheels #1, #2, #3 etc.

The wife's family do this. Always have it appears.
So now, it seems I do too

So we have :

Fabia vrs - Cedric (after Cedric Daniels from The Wire)
Signum - Freud (didn't take long to come up with that one!)

I actually use the names now so I can't really moan about it!!! 🙂

My lad called my last car (Peugeot 406) Daddy red car. Very cute, even though it was burgundy. Current car (Lexus 430) is called the Boost Car, as he likes the power switch on the dash, and the feel when I put my foot down.

My dad had a big cortina estate when I was a lad, it was named goldie by my sister. You never see many gold cars now, which is a shame, its all moody hues of blues and grey through to black.

My car is called Shark after my nephew (3) decided it looked like a shark,
Fiancée's is called vixen due to numberplate
Fiancée's company car is called the big blue, golf Bluemotion.

On reflection it does seem a little sad to name cars.

Klaus (to rhyme with mouse, not claws)

My Frontera was named Wurzel by my wife for its rustic looks (possibly rusty looks too) and my current Passat has been awarded Basil. Because it was faulty for a while.

If you're female then fill yer boots.

Meet Larry the Landrover

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He growls at Nissan X-Trails

acceptable if you're a car designer, embarrassing if you're not.

In my humble, worthless opinion.

Her old (utter $h1tbox Rover 216 shocking excuse for a) car - Alfie
Her current car - Heathcliffe

Both based on the numberplates.

The van is called Clive, on account of the numberplate (CV), the fact it's a T5, and that it came from Sinclair Van Centre

Not wife but at work we have:
Dora (Ford Explorer) Brad (Snatch Landrover)
Walter (as in Mitty, WMIK Landrover which was built on a civvy chassis so not a 'real' WMIK.)
My T5 has been named in rather poor taste 'The Miley Cyrus tour bus' after local reports of someone trying to get kids into a van which matched the description of mine.....

I had a Triumph Herald that my then girlfriend kept calling Harold.

I think this was a genuine error rather than girly anthropomorphism of the car. On the plus side she was fit.

Pook - Member
acceptable if you're a car designer, embarrassing if you're not.

People who name cars should be ****

My old works old berlingo was known as the silver bullet

We were given a Daewoo Nexia that I called Shedric.
It LOOKED like a Shedric to be fair.

God, I miss that car.

Best car name is Fraud Siesta, in the Crow Road by Iain Banks.
Genius.

People who name cars should be ****

If it winds you up that much, I strongly suggest calling yours something friendly like "Charlie" - it might cheer you up. Miseryguts!

RJ for the van
Whistle for the Prius
5 for the Orange Audi ( I kid you not )

My car is named Bernard (BMW) and her car is called Wally (Volkswagen Golf)! But we have names for everything (plants, household appliances...... the list goes on and on and on!!!) 😀

But we have names for everything (plants

We have a bromeliad called Brian

My old Renault 4 van was called "The Vanimal"

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My VW Caddy purchased specifically to aid cycle transportation is called Ludwig van Bikewaggon. I little tenuous I admit but it was the best I could come up with.

I don't like naming things as then you get attached to them and sad when they stop working.
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However, in order to tell what you are refering to names just deveop sometimes. I've had:
The Tardia (Proton Persona, surprisingly large boot)
The Rustbucket (Peugeot 306)
The Repmobile (Mondeo, which the other half tried to call Percy)
The Toyota (Corrolla)
The Hyundai (Trajet)
The Van (Transit)

We had a red 205 called, er, Cherry.

Heh. Mine are all "Widowmakers". Currently on "Widowmaker III". The wife hates them all as a result.

My sister borrowed my mums Honda Jazz and it was renamed 've-jazzle'
A mate of mine, mid 40's ex army built like a tank macho kind of bloke names all his cars, things like billy, Mikey, tommy he gets proper attached to them too and talks about them like they are a pet. Very odd considering his personality in general.

One is the dog-bus, the other is the bike-bus.

People who name cars should be ****

I feel sorry for folk who have to get through the day being so miserable. Life must be one constant trudge.

[i]The wife [s]hates them all as a result[/s][b]wishes they'd all just get on with it[/b][/i]

🙂

our Audi A6 was called Beyonce because it had a big curvy bootee like the singer, Honda Civic called Pikachu. the current Nissan Almera hasnt been named yet even though we've had it for nearly 3 years as we spend most of our time swearing at it instead!!

Naming a car is not good.

How about Aaron for you A4?

Currently with Gary the Golf.

Along a similar vein, does anyone else announce loudly "CAR TWIN" when they see an [u]exact[/u] same model car when out driving?

RM.

For me, the Wife's car is York (as in Your Car)
My car is Mike (as in My Car)

However to the wife, my Car is York and her car is Mike... you following?

Also when I bought my toy, I vowed I would not give it a name, however the previous owner had already called it Charlotte and it stuck.

That's 2 minutes of my life I will never get back....

My wife names all her cars Heathcliffe.

A while ago she was driving a really old, rusted car that was unreliable. So I went off and found her a nice 2nd hand car and bought it as a surprise.
When I arrived home with it and handed her the keys, she burst into tears as she was more upset that she would have to get rid of Heathcliffe.

just called our new/old HRV ralph

My wife's family refer to them by colour. So we stared doing that, but now we have two grey cars. We still do it, and it still seems to work somehow.

Katie calls our Fiat 500 Mario

My ex GF called our A Claas, Klaus.
She called my M3 Convertible, bluey (laguna seca blue. See )
Then we had a B Class and she called it Boris.

Lovely girl.

The wife [s]hates them all as a result[/s]wishes they'd all just get on with it

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My old TVR Griffith was called Sully - big blue monster.

I name all my cars. It's no worse the manufacturer branding them with fanciful model names IMO (would you have driven a Cortina in Cortina?)

Bumpkin
Wanda
Rhonda
Hugh
Hughtoo

Perhaps oddly, I don't name my bikes.

I've always named my cars. The name always has to have something to do with the registration though. My current car has WRZ at the end so the name is [b]W[/b]u[b]RZ[/b]ell. My last car had LFG at the end so the name was e[b]LF[/b]ie-[b]G[/b]. The one before that had OCA at the end so the name was [b]O[/b]s[b]CA[/b]r, and so on..

Thinking about it, our VW Touran has a name. "Utter sh*te".

Full run-down of past car names:
CNxx WRZ - Wurzell
Yxx LFG - Elfie-G
Vxxx OCA - Oscar
Pxxx DPE - Dippie
Pxxx YPE - Yippie
Hxxx HMO - Homo

Alice the Astra followed by Bertie the Beemer

I blame the wife

My Puma got a name, ShadowKat, after the X-Men character.
'Cos she were cute...

the mini's all had names, but boy names. all the minis that had girl names used to break down once a month and leak for a week.

not given any cars a name since the minis.

Holly the Honda - as named by the wife. She does like the little red nose too.

Got a mate who calls his Opel Commodore "Lionel"

Uncle Fester [xr2i]
The Emporer Claudius [old old old citroen cx]
Horace Honda [civic]
Percy Peugeot [406]
Morris Mazda [mx5]
Fergus Focus
Gordon Golf

The naming of cars is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games...

My focus was the slug, because it was slow and left a shiny trail everywhere. Mondeo has no name but might aquire one some day.

I drive Stacey the Safety Bus - named by Miss njee20 to encourage safe driving. She has Pollyanna (Polly) Polo.

Previously there was Fiona Fiesta (aka Crazy Fi) and Huxley Pug.

My other half refers to our Golf as "the VW". This is accurate but given our other car (van) was also made by Volkswagen it isn't very useful.

Tom at college had a fierce panda.
We currently have Delilah the Peugeot Partner, and Betty the Fiat 500. Both named after hearings songs (more or less).

the00 - Member

fierce panda.

Very good!