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I hold my hands up, I've never named any car Ive ever owned. Ive owned over 200 but have never bought one thinking this is one I'll keep long term.
However I now have a car I'm planning on keeping long term, i.e more than 12 months, and I thought that as I'll be keeping 'her' I'll give 'her' a name. So as Ive already assigned a gender type to the car what do you think would be a suitable name for 'her'?
Its a Mazda 6 Sport Nav in what Mazda call 'soul red'. SO come on then, any good name suggestions please?
Mazikeen.
And I've never named a car, bicycle or guitar.
My 1965 Beetle is called Otis. None of my modern cars have had names though.
My BMW is The Battlewagon. It bears scars.
My Seat is Carlos the Cupra. Feisty.
I had an ancient Saab called Juan - numberplate was JUA ***N.
Most of my cars & vans have been called Hotel, Hotel II, Hotel III etc as I live out of them....
Mine is called Susan.
I was given a Daewoo Nexia once.
Utter mince, but I loved it.
It had soul and was named Shedric.
It even had the good grace to break down terminally outside my favourite pub.
I miss that car.
My motorbike is called Randall
Old LDV camper was Lullabelle De Ville.
Current zafira is show-love, and wife's old Aygo was Dizzy Daisy, both from something in the reg letters.
Not a deliberately looked for thing. My bikes have names too, and I talk to them. I talk to the car too 😄
car
V70- Valerie (Handles like the Exxon Valdez....Val....Valerie)
Fabia - Fabien....for obvious reasons
Louise?
Ours are called “the Golf” and “the Alhambra”.
My shitty Vectra was known as The Mighty Vectra.
In order:
The Tardis
The Rust Bucket
Percy
The Toyota
The Hyundai
Tina
The van
.
Percy and Tina were both named by my then-girlfriend
"Mazda"
I've never had trouble finding a name. Zoé, Lodgy, Peugeot... .
Talking to them definitely helps with things like coaxing them up to the ski resort without putting chains on. I've noted Madame talks to it like a horse except for the tongue clicking sounds to round it up or make it go.
my mini was called Muhammad.
My forester is called gump.
My Fabia is called Milena.
My Mini is called Georgie.
Both are keepers.
my friends fiesta was called Charlie.
Louise ?
I think naming cars is dumb, but each to their own. What really annoys me is when people advertise their vehicle (usually VW campers) with...."the time has come to put our van, Flossy, up for sale...."
Makes we want to buy the van and just burn it out in front of their house.
Just got a new Kuga.
In the Ford Pass app you can give your car a name.
Ours is called Freddie Kuga.
Two. Hundred. Cars. WTF?!
Benoit the Berlingo, because he's balls.
Colin, a good, solid, dependable but ultimately boring name for a boring car. However when no one was looking he became Colin the racing C-Maxerati, possibly the only C-max to have melted a set of front tyres and repeatedly accidentally got airborne over humps and bridges. Quite how he survived almost 10 years with me before being written off in an accident that wasn't my fault I'm not sure!
Mr Toad the Midget. Because he's green, and has a very classic sounding horn (or did at least untill I fixed it, now it just sounds like every other 1970's car).
I hold my hands up, I’ve never named any car Ive ever owned. Ive owned over 200 but have never bought one thinking this is one I’ll keep long term.
However I now have a car I’m planning on keeping long term, i.e more than 12 months, and I thought that as I’ll be keeping ‘her’ I’ll give ‘her’ a name.
I think you need a better reason than that - cars, and bikes for that matter, kind of name themselves in the sense that the name comes from you and your relationship with the car or bike. You can't delegate something that personal to an internet forum full of strangers. It's too personal, or it should be.
Names have nuance and stories. My road bike's called Mog for reasons I'm not going into here, but make me smile. If I'd asked on here for a name for a Lynskey-made, Planet X Ti Pro Road, people would suggest, oh, I dunno, Linus or something. Fine, but not right.
I should probably get out more 🙁
Oh, and if you're not a car name person, which you don't seem to be, you're arguably not a car name person. But give it time and the car should sort of name itself.
VW T6 is called Clio and Skoda Karoq is called Kelly
I name all my cars! Cars are like boats, they need a name.
Well theres some great names and story's coming out here. The only name I could think of was Ruby, thats why I'm looking for inspiration. Or maybe as has been commented already I'm just not the kind of person to name a car.
You creepy bastard's. The only thing worse than naming your car is referring to it as she.
The naming of cars is a difficult matter... If it's got one, it'll let you know some day. Subtle hints add up and suddenly, you know the name and it's really obvious.
(mine turned out to be Snorlax, because it's a big fat Japanese sleeper)
Two. Hundred. Cars. WTF?!
This was my thought too... I’ve owned 4. In 19 years. I expect to keep the fourth one a good few years yet. 12 months is not ‘long term’!
One was called Victor (from the number plate).
Others have variously been ‘Big Car’ or ‘Litle Car’ depending on, well, bigness.
Strange thing to do and only carried out by weirdos.
Ive owned over 200 but have never bought one thinking this is one I’ll keep long term.
That seems fairly clear.
I only named one car I've owned. My green Renault 5. Kermit.
I used to call mine the black basterd but apparently its not PC or something, which is a shame because its black and the flaming thing keep breaking down!
Bertha - the only bike/car I've ever named, not quite sure why I did?
Gordon Banks?
Mine was called Wexley when I brought it home by Joey, just because it’s last three letters of its reg are WEX.
The only car I gave a name to was my Mk 1 Opel Manta, which I had resprayed metallic black, and put a set of slightly wider alloy 8-spokes on, and called it Sorceress, but I did take it to a variety of custom car shows, so fitting.
Like this one, but all black...
If I had some spare cash, I’d track one down and have it stripped to bare metal and rebuilt with everything upgraded. Gorgeous car.
No name for my car. I once named a bike “Black Betty” - it was a black Yeti... sent a pic to the yeti fan site and when I saw the ‘name’ against the pic on the site I was rather embarrassed. Looked silly, so no, I don’t name things. Except maybe my new Throttle, I might call it the Yellow Peril... if I was a pillock 😂
“The missus”?
So if you use it for commuting, you get to go in the missus twice a day.
You might even let your friends have a go in the missus.
If you want her looking her best, you should wax the missus.
And of course the missus needs regular servicing.
When you reach your destination you can say you came in the missus.
You creepy bastard’s. The only thing worse than naming your car is referring to it as she.
All my cars that have been given names have had female names, they can never be male! They've also suggested their names too, the Skoda was named afte a flier for a business run by a Czech lady (gardening) and the Mini just suited Georgie as it's a G reg Mini and I knew a Georgina who was a brunette who was also small and cute so I shortened it to Georgie. Both took a while for the names to be chosen, the Skoda almost 3 years and the Mini after I'd spent a few weeks working on her over the winter. She was going to be called Sophie but the only one of them I know is rather on the large size so it would have felt like I was taking the piss 🤣
My bikes are also named: Ellie (simple, basic hardtail but a good ride), Rachel (plain but dependable) and Louise (she's always getting me into and out of trouble).
Hmmm. I suppose I have named one car.
We called it The Shitroen.
You may be able to work out why.
Berta the white golf estate.
Puff the magic Wagon, touran with no seats n the back.
no longer have a car but the next one will also be named.
If its soul red and cool as **** surely its got to be: Aretha, Nina (or Simone), Gladys etc
does yours have one
I've never understood why people give names to cars, bicycles, etc, unless it's a joke name like Kermit, The Banana, Ford Crappy, Toyota Coroda, Elvis (cause it had so many hits), etc.
How about "Red Nev"?
My car is "Black Cat", Mrs Natrix has "Poppy". I used to have "Fred Fester the Fiesta", what was I thinking..........
My motorcycle is Bessie. Bessie the Beeza
No
Last camper was Jethro because we bought him from the West Country.
New one is Poppy because red
Others current cars are Ruby again red and Elsa because same colour as her dress
Previous car was Betty because Of the Ram Jam song
Previous to that was Harry White because friend of my daughter.
Bit random but all have names!
Best one was a friend’s car called Sean because number plate started with SH66 ...
Mrs kilo had a fiat uno called Buck, after the film, and we had a Honda shuttle people carrier which was called “the wheels on the bus” and a really crappy Honda Accord which was “pimp my ride”. Our current blue combo van is called Buff after the blue buffalo on a South African 100 rand note. We had been biking in South Africa just after we bought the van and it is fairly agricultural, smelly and in-glamorous.
Our current blue Honda car doesn’t have a name or a personality. Motorbikes, most are never named but my bmw r100gs was called the bumblebee after its colour scheme, my bsa bantam has been named Micheal Collins by neighbours (IRA leader in the War of Independence) and our Honda c90 is Leslie Chow after the hangover.
My car has a 'name', You HAVE to name a tesla.
I say name, you could use the numberplate or a fleet reference or your ex-wife's gym instructor's name. But it must have a formal title.
Not really one for naming objects and have a physical reaction to a car/bike referred to as 'She' 🤢
We did have a brown 1982 Westfalia VW camper that was referred to as 'Mr Hanky' by friends, because as the South Park character is described 'He's just a piece of shit really'.
Some cars are he and some she, for example: une Zoé, un Lodgy, un Espace, une Clio... .
You creepy bastard’s. The only thing worse than naming your car is referring to it as she.
I'll stop anthropomorphizing objects when you stop objectifying people 😉
The Flying Shoebox:
Never named a car, but my motorcycles tend to get names. Current one is Herman (the little German). Previous one was Tigerpig 2. Some others have been Speedy, Bonnie etc. Not too difficult to guess what models they were ....
Had a Fiat thing with LSD in the reg so called it the Tripster. Current car is just the car as it is a Zafira and therefore doesn’t deserve a name. They’re the only two cars I’ve owned.
I’m that bad that with cars that I have to walk back to the car in car parks to look at the reg plate as I don’t know the number. PITA with those machines that take your reg. I once also spent a good five minutes trying to open someone else’s Zafira as it was the same colour and parked near mine.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
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to be fair though on another thread you outed yourself as the kind of guy who takes a picture of their new car outside of the dealers.
You opinion is invalid.
Car.
My saab is known as the Triple S, short for Swedish Space Shuttle, mainly cos its got a space age fold out cup holder.
12 months is not ‘long term’!
If you'd owned one car a year since the first automobile rolled off a production line you wouldnt have owned 200 yet. But the OP could be a vampire or some other form of immortal.
Are we including matchbox cars in that figure?
We make a name out of the last3 letters of the number plate, last 3:
UWB = ooby
MZF = Mustafa = Muzzy
OWJ = Owj 😆
Ah now then, the sit up and beg Ford Pop my mum and dad had was known as Wee-wee due to the number plate - WWE. Can't remember the numbers.
Look up étron in a French dictionary, Drac. 😉
BMW i3 REX. “Rex”
BMW 3 series Touring “The Touring”
Previous:
Z4MC - “The Zed”
Mini Cooper S Clubman “Mini”. Or to the kids “Mini Daddy Car”
Peugeot 306 “The Pug”
You get the idea.
Just remembered while checking the charge on the car I’ve just reminded it called, Stark One. I’d forgotten I had named it for the app.
Look up étron in a French dictionary, Drac.
Yeah I do wonder if that’s why the put the hyphen in it.
Had a breadvan VW Polo called Elsie. Why? Well the number plate was C867RAP. So L(ittle) C(rap) or LC.
Not named any since.
I don't name cars normally, but yesterday it became '****ing, arsing, bastard car of hate' after spending hours changing engine mounts, made difficult due to the turbo being in the way, the turbo oil seal started leaking, meaning removing the turbo anyway.
Closely followed by all 4 studs on the turbo shearing off, leaving the turbo inexplicably welded to the outlet, despite all the fixings shearing off.
My car has a ‘name’, You HAVE to name a tesla.
I say name, you could use the numberplate or a fleet reference or your ex-wife’s gym instructor’s name. But it must have a formal title.
Yep. Massively original, me...
to be fair though on another thread you outed yourself as the kind of guy who takes a picture of their new car outside of the dealers.
You opinion is invalid.
The pic outside the dealers is a dealer pic from Autotrader
Which makes your opinion wrong
I have a XC 60, again you have to name it for the Volvo app. NMO on the reg plate so Nemo.
It did throw me at first when I started getting messages from Nemo, but I got used to it.
I’ve never understood why people give names to cars, bicycles, etc, unless it’s a joke name
I don't think it's any more weird than referring to your bikes a steed or your collection of bikes as a quiver.
Had a breadvan VW Polo called Elsie. Why? Well the number plate was C867RAP. So L(ittle) C(rap) or LC.
I had a bread van Polo. It was a brilliant little motor. It was a limited edition job with red quilted door panels. No really, look:
A friend said it was like being in a brothel. I couldn't possibly confirm or deny that.
My first car was a mini and was called "the ferret" by my mates. Not really sure why, but something to do with a military vehicle
replaced by a VW passat estate that was called "the bus". Bit more obvious
I don’t think it’s any more weird than referring to your bikes a steed or your collection of bikes as a quiver.
Yeah, that's not something I do either
Why have Teslas got such shit ugly wheels?
To not spoil a nice set of wheels?
Why have Teslas got such shit ugly wheels?
It completes the look
The pic outside the dealers is a dealer pic from Autotrader
Which makes your opinion wrong
😀
I'm only teaasing.
When I got my last car my nephew asked what it's called - Car.
When it got replaced the new one was called Car2D2
All of my vehicles including bikes seem to have Teutonic female names. Excepting Brigid the Rigid.
Well there's confirmation that many of you are mad as fruitcakes. Its a car.
Most of my cars have had names, names may come quickly or take time (see Northwind post above). Oddly none of my bikes have have names beyond the obvious brand/model - confusion reigns with a black Orange and a blue Whyte.
Cars with names...
F plate 1.6L Sierra estate - Rustbucket, ironic in retrospect as no rust on until north of 275k
K plate 2.0 Ghia Sierra Sapphire - Crowley
V plate 1.8 Zetec Focus estate - Rustbucket 2, though no rust until past 200k
52 plate Ka Sun Collection - Pog
55 plate 2.0 Titanium Mondeo Estate - Bertha
63 plate XF 2.0d Sportbrake - Nina
64 plate XF 3.0d Sportbrake - Katniss
15 plate XE 2.0d - Stibbons
65 plate XF 3.0d - Lipvig
66 plate XF 3.0d - Missy
55 plate 3.0 Ghia X Mondeo - Maya
20 plate F-Pace - Brian
But as Northwind said, they will let you know there name in time.
Mine is called Christine.
No recommendations from me I'm afraid. My current Focus is called Frodo because it's a lot smaller than Kenny the Kia Sportage he replaced
DARTH,
First gen Berlingo banger. Painted Matt black, rusted and ratted.
Took me and pals all over the country riding/uplifting.
Never cleaned it in the 5 years I had it, more mud on the inside than the out. I loved that van.
The Mrs has a new fancy car with all the gizmos, callS it KITT.