jewels

Typically, men think of machinery as women and name their cars thusly.

Ever since I became a mom, I've thought of cars as protectors and began naming them as men.

Is it totally ludicrous to name your vehicle? Is it named after your man, woman, grandpa or favorite porn star? Or does the name have to jive with your car's personality?

I drive a 2004 Hyundai Elantra. Although he's ever-so-slightly effeminate, he's perky and tough when he needs to be and keeps me and my girls safe. His totally macho name is Buck.

Yours?

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shesus

I don't name cars because they're protectors. Cars are a necessary evil where we are right now. I don't like driving and I feel safer walking, but until we get back to Chicago, I'm stuck with them.

Some people in my family name their cars, so we name them for fun. Usually it's something funny just so that we can refer to it instead of the BMW or Honda or Jeep. Once we had 2 Hondas so it was kinda necessary to differentiate. Anyway, a friend of ours and I named our old BMW Bruce Michael Wellington. Our new BMW is a convertible, so it's Bruce's sister, Bianca Macy Wellington. The Jeep didn't really get named, but we started calling it Riker as a joke, it stuck sorta.

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Hmm now I just feel like I need to find a name for my car, it is an 05 corolla.

little_tippler

My car is called The Boop. I named it after Betty Boop because my license plate looks like it reads Boooop. But I think it is a boy anyway, so it's the boop and not betty. lol. I think it's perfectly normal, most people do it.

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Crack

My car's name is Son of a Bitch. That's usually what I end up calling it.

"What is that noise? Son of a Bitch!"

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abaya

I only ever named one car, which was a white Ford Escort that my mom basically got for me to drive after college. When I asked my mom why she picked a WHITE car (I hated the color), she said that it was a "pure" color, which apparently was meant to match my virginal status at the time! Of course, after hearing this, a friend of mine said promptly, "Did you tell your mom that white gets dirty fast?"

Anyway, its name quickly became "The Virgin Ride."

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Ustwo

You don't name cars.

You name boats.

Thats just how it is.

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Charlatan

I don't name cars but my wife does...

Geronimo - Jeep Cherokee
Bean - a green suzuki swift
Carmen - a red suzuki swift
Sting - my blue vespa

and so on...

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roachboy

i name all kinds of things.
my cars have had names like the shark (because it was), travelling background (a brown dodge dart--i thought it make more expensive cars i'd park near more visible, so they'd get stolen) and the flying sofa.
my apartments have been called the palatial estate, the treefort and now the grotto.
i just like naming things.

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TotalMILF

"Car"

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jewels

Reminds me of my parents when they kept their first stray cat. Dad called him "Cat".

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snowy

Baby is the name of the car I drive right now, 'cause she's my Baby, and she always has been. She is a 94 Volvo 940 wagon, turbocharged. We bought her as a lease return when I was 13 or so, and she is the car I learned to drive on, she is the car I drove to prom, and she is the car I could never part with. There is too much history between us. When I skidded going over the pass a couple years ago and slid into a snowbank, and had to have her towed out--I cried so hard. I thought I was going to lose her. Seriously, I am going to drive Baby until she dies.

My other named car was Zippy. Zippy was an 89 Volvo 240, with a manual transmission. He only had 4 cylinders, and no turbocharger like Baby has. The engine got 105 hp. We called him the Gutless Wonder, because even though he took a while to get to the top of a hill, he always made it! What was funny about Zippy is on flat ground, you could beat almost anyone across an intersection if you shifted well--he had amazing low-end torque (hence the name Zippy). We bought him brand-new in 1989. I sold him 2.5 years ago or so, and I regret it. Zippy was a great car. Wish I still had him.

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Fotzlid

I had a '98 Mustang GT that the GF named "The Dancing Car" because it had a tendency to get a little tail-happy at times.

The_Jazz

I am proud of the fact that I have never named a car or my penis.

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Halx

My cars have all had "hot female" names.

Nadia was the first car I purchased. After Shannon Elizabeth's character in American Pie.

Rachael was the second car I purchased. I just think it is a very pretty name.

Next car .. maybe Natasha.

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blahblah454

Those are pretty hot names halx

There are only three vehicles I can think of that had names:

1. My friends old HUGE 55 Buick, we called it Big Bertha... "come on big bertha, don't fail me now!" as it was chugging away.

2. A friends old school mini van, we called it Big Pimpin, cause it was the road trip vehicle

3. Same friends little nissan, it was called Little Pimpin, cause it was the normal vehicle and it was much smaller than the van

savmesom11

Two cars ago I had this little maroon thing my brother gave me when I got in a pinch, I named her Hot Betty cause she always ran a little hot.

One car ago I named Bo, after my favorite American Idol singer at the time. Bo was faithful and strong.

Current car's name is Hemi, cause I wish it had one! My brother is a Mopar guy has a shop and works on fantastic pieces of American muscle daily, it is his passion and he has showed me beauty.

Hot female names indeed....reminds me of my Vegas name....Kiona

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Honda Del Sol = recently referred to as The Topless Bar.

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QuasiMondo

My car names were rather unconventional.

1991 Honda CRX - Zippy, because, well, that's what it was.

1990 Eagle Talon - The Banshee, a bad alternator belt that had a squeal from hell every time I started her up in the morning.

1991 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 - #931, that's the number from the serialized dash plaque. Boring, but that's what everybody who had a VR-4 did too.

1986 Toyota Corolla - Ugly Betty, because she sure ain't pretty.

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PonyPotato

I haven't named my car. I haven't even decided yet whether I consider it male or female, so it remains genderless and nameless.

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BadNick

my current favorite mistress (<- my wife's designation) is Black Magic Woman ...though obviously it's not a BMW. Yes, I often play Santana very loud while driving, though the motor sounds better than most music; once an instructor riding along with me at Pocono Raceway said I should turn it down since it's embarrassing to hear a car blasting around with the radio on even if we're passing most cars

Fotzlid

sweet

i hate you

jewels

She's gorgeous. I'd consider a threesome. Make that four. You, me, your black woman and Santana.

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Plan9

Hahaha! That reminds me of what we used to call our humvees / trucks in Afghanistan.

"Somebody go start up my OPOS!" Pronounced "oh-POZ." Stands for: Outstanding Piece Of Shit.

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You were in Afghanistan Crompsin?

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filtherton

My car's name is Slutty Cumdumpster, she doesn't care who the fuck gets in her, and as long as they fill her up on a regular basis she'll go anywhere with them.

Where have you been? Crompsin is a grade a american fucking hero.

Hain

He doesn't like to brag about that, except when he emphasizes on the "grade A fucking" to all the ladies.


My baby... is a 2000 something Chevy Tracker. Insurance is cheap, gets OK gas mileage, and has saved my friends and I. Well I saved us as I was driving, but she was my car. Her name is just "Baby" as whenever I hear a noise that isn't supposed to be there, I say "What's wrong, baby?"

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BadNick

jewels,
we can make history since I bet this has never been done in a Supra ...you can give birth to your baby in my car, the leather is washable, maybe you can break your water before sitting down to minimize the moisture. I'll search Carlos' songs, he must have written something appropriate to play during childbirth. I just thought of Cream doing "my big black car" but it's not quite right, or left, for childbirth, though I added the last stanza below to fix that: ...sorry Jack Bruce & Pete Brown for altering your lyrics but I'm sure you understand:

Hey now baby, get into my big black car
I wanna just show you what my politics are.

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach
So don't deny me baby, not while you're in my reach.

I support the left, tho' I'm leanin', leanin' to the right
But I'm just not there when it's coming to a fight.

Your, jewels, present excessive girth
Is representative of your pending birth

jewels

Please tell me you're confusing me with a pregnant thread?

OMG, I couldn't get past that, I'm laughing so hard I'm in tears.

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BadNick

oops, sorry. Here I thought you were really pregnant. I stand ...fall... corrected. As you were.

Charlatan

I am so with you on this...

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Grasshopper Green

I used to have an 84 Subaru wagon that my brother christened Commander Cadaver. I have no idea where the name came from, but it sure stuck.

Now I just refer to my cars by their colors.

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Plan9

Were you spitting on my neglected Class A dress uniform while you said that or am I just paranoid? I believe jolly old UsTwo was playing at how I often reference military experiences. Turns out you don't just shut that shit off, especially when it is recent (entire year of '06). I like UsTwo... he's more subtle than a first date fart.

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I sometimes refer to my grocery-getter truck as "Vegas" due to the tag I had on it when I lived in Souf Cackalacky. That and it has cool light show at night thanks to neons.

That rocks. I think my truck may be renamed soon.

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filtherton

I think you're just paranoid. And perhaps more keenly able to discern subtlety over the internet.

savmesom11

Naughty!!! Awesome!!

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Charlatan

Crompsin is totally my hero... I wish I had a little GI Joe-sized doll of him.

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