Motoring Discussion > Naming your car	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: WillDeBeest	Replies: 50

Mon 2 Mar 15 09:07   Naming your car - WillDeBeest

LL's been referring to 'Herman' again, and while I don't mean to pick on him personally, I wonder if there's anyone else here who (still?) gives their car a name - or perhaps has (like Bromp) been bounced into doing so by another member of the household. Me, never. I've had cars I've respected as machines, even liked for the way they looked after me or the pleasure they gave me to travel in. (And I've had a Vauxhall.) But it never occurred to me that any of them needed a name. Excuse me now while I empty Jessica the kettle and load my pants into Lorenzo the washing machine. };---) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 09:10   Naming your car - Pat

I've never named a car but all of my lorries always responded to 'Come on Clara, you can do it' Pat Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 19:54   Naming your car - Bromptonaut

>> I've never named a car but all of my lorries always responded to 'Come on >> Clara, you can do it' My Mother, who's nearly 90, worked in a hospital in Manchester shortly after her marriage to my Dad. They had no car, you needed more than a colour chemist's plus a clerk's wage to run one in 1952, but a colleague would give her a lift home from time to time. When his old Riley struggled his phrase was 'come on Emma, suck your orange'. It stuck throughout my childhood. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Mon 2 Mar 15 19:55   Naming your car - Runfer D'Hills

I do hope your mother wasn't called Emma? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message       3

Mon 2 Mar 15 19:59   Naming your car - Bromptonaut

>> I do hope your mother wasn't called Emma? >> >> ;-) OY!!! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 09:10   Naming your car - commerdriver

my daughter has named all my cars since she was about 5, she is 24 now. Harmless bit of fun, also easier in our house since referring to the Golf, or even the red Golf covers any one of 3 cars. Yes we are a boring household in some ways. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 09:16   Naming your car - Old Navy

Years ago I often called cars a pile of junk, or many things which would not get past the forum filters. :) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:14   Naming your car - Mike Hannon

Only The Beast, not because of what it is but the alliteration with our address. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:21   Naming your car - WillDeBeest

Bodmin? };---) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:23   Naming your car - bathtub tom

I've tended to give them a name relevant to the number plate. TUX was Tootsie. GRX was Gracie. I'm stumped with FMJ! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:29   Naming your car - VxFan

>> I've tended to give them a name relevant to the number plate. One of my previous cast offs ended in VWE. Unfortunately it didn't apply to the driver (me). Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:34   Naming your car - Duncan

The satnav in my LEC is called Brunhilde (she's German). Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:36   Naming your car - John Boy

For some reason, this topic has brought to mind John Cleese thrashing his 1100. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 10:56   Naming your car - Slidingpillar

I've not, but my mum named my Morgan 4/4 "Woodstock" due to it being very yellow, and someone who worked for Radio 1 named the Morgan Super Sport Aero as "The Elk". The Elk test and the little Mercedes failing it were in the news at the time. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 11:34   Naming your car - Runfer D'Hills

I had a special name for my Renault Espace. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 12:36   Naming your car - BiggerBadderDave

A secretary called my XJS 'the duchess'. And it vaguely stuck. Since then, it's usually been referred as 'the car'. Now to choose between the cars, it's sometimes the 'blue one' and the 'silver one'. Wifey sometimes says the 'big one' and I have to say 'the big blue one'? or 'the big silver one'? To further confuse things (depending on lighting conditions) the 'blue one' is sometimes called the 'black one'. Me? I tend to call them 'the Lexus' and 'the Jeep', as it's easier than 'The Lexus' and 'the four-wheeled-drive Lexus'. And if we're outside in pointing range it's, 'this one' or 'that one'. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 12:50   Naming your car - sooty123

Nope can't say my car is named and I've never named any car I've owned. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 13:34   Naming your car - Slightlyfatdirector

When I got together with my now wife we got into the habit of naming our respective cars. The Cavalier I had at the time was Captain Cav, the Lada was Larry. As we stared replacing the cars the habit stuck. The Capri's were Casper, the Mondeo's were Monty, The Punto was Peter. As we have moved along the Escort was Essie, and the S60 Volvo was BigWig (BWG number plate), whilst my wife's Fiesta was 'Fast Freddy'. My 5 series touring was Finlay (after the shark-fin-styled roof-mounted aerial), and its replacement the V70 is Deefer (after the D4 engine classification on the boot). My wife's Eos is Ronnie (the number plate has BGZ - Biggs, ergo Ronnie Biggs). Quite sad really as I type this all out, but a bit of fun and we always get attached to our cars in some way. Some of the cars were naughtier than others, but they all had character traits of some sort... Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 13:49   Naming your car - Runfer D'Hills

My Espace had a name which was a bit like one of those enormous German compound words but made up almost entirely of profanities. Sometimes the order or frequency of them would change but the meaning remained more or less the same. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 14:25   Naming your car - TheManWithNoName

The kids call the little Hyundai Mib on account of the pathetic noise it emits when the horn is pressed. The Pug 406 is Finn (Finn McMissile) from the Pixar movie Cars 2, only on account of its colour (when its clean). Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 18:10   Naming your car - Alastairw

My ex used to name our cars, but I never have. The kids call my current steed 'taxi'. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 19:41   Naming your car - Aretas

My (company) Viva we called Heap. My Elan was called Oiby - a corruption of its registration Avenger was called Engy Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 19:46   Naming your car - Bromptonaut

>> >> easier in our house since referring to the Golf, >> or even the red Golf That was part of Miss B's rationale. Dad's car/Berlingo and Mum's car/Berlingo just didn't cut the mustard. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 22:12   Naming your car - Ted

The Vulgar Vitara is referred to by me as the jeep. The Naughty Note is the wife's steed. The Jowett is Joetta...an early English girl's name. The Honda bike is The Kipper...KPR reg. The Velocette is The Grinder...GND reg. I had a '58 Raleigh moped called TED...'cos it's reg was...er...TED. Gone back to it's proper owner in Cumbria now. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 22:30   Naming your car - Zero

The lancer is called, the lancer. Its predecessor, the altea, was called - the Altea. The Touran was called, The Touran. The Laguna was called, well, the Laguna. There is a theme here They are not she or him, they are "it" They have no feelings, no gender, no conscious. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 2 Mar 15 22:57   Naming your car - John Boy

>> They are not she or him, they are "it" They have no feelings, no gender, no conscious. Sort of a zero, then? :-) Last edited by: John Boy on Mon 2 Mar 15 at 22:58 Reply to this message | Report message       4

Tue 3 Mar 15 06:45   Naming your car - MD

Hey hey! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 08:17   Naming your car - DP

We call the Golf "Silver", a name which originates from the time we had two mk4 Golfs. For the first couple of weeks we referred to them as "the blue one" and "the silver one", but eventually the names just got abbreviated to "Blue" and "Silver". "I'm just popping out, I'm taking Blue" for example. Blue has long since gone to a new owner, but Silver is still with us, and although we could just say "The Golf", Silver has kind of stuck. Plus, if we were both honest, after 7 years of dependable service, we think she has earned the right to have a name. ;-) Best one was a (badly) crash repaired Sierra a mate of mine used to own. It had clearly suffered a massive rear end impact at some point in its life, and the boot floor was a mixture of rippled, torn metal, and crudely tack welded plates that you could lift up with your bare hands in places. The resulting handling was so evil and unpredictable that it became known as 'Satan'. Tried to kill him on numerous occasions. Last edited by: DP on Tue 3 Mar 15 at 08:21 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 08:37   Naming your car - NortonES2

Norton was called the Black Pig by the girlfriend. Bit unkind, as it has a silver tank. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 10:23   Naming your car - John Boy

>>Hey hey! Quite right, MD! I'm not proud of that post. Sorry, Zero. What I said was prompted by the fact that I often find your sharp responses to posts rather offensive, even when I agree with what you're saying. I should have said that elsewhere. For the record, I don't name cars. Mine have always been 'the van', 'the car' or 'the wheels'. Last edited by: John Boy on Tue 3 Mar 15 at 10:25 Reply to this message | Report message       1

Tue 3 Mar 15 16:42   Naming your car - Zero

>> Sorry, Zero. What I said was prompted by the fact that I often find your >> sharp responses to posts rather offensive, even when I agree with what you're saying. Well I tell you what, you have me well confused now. You agree with what I am saying but you are still offended by it? Must be a unique skill I have there then. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 16:55   Naming your car - No FM2R

Zero, whatever else you may or may not be, rest assured you are unique. Probably not something which pleased your Mother. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:04   Naming your car - Armel Coussine

>> rest assured you are unique. Rest assured everyone unique for what it worth. Himportant factor is whether dem a waste a hoxygen or not innit? Jus sayin. No personal himplication at all at all... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:14   Naming your car - No FM2R

Blooming heck, that sun gets over the yard arm damned early these days. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:52   Naming your car - Armel Coussine

>> Blooming heck Steady on FMR, that's verging on foul language. Of course I can quite understand that you would have to be intoxicated to come up with an amusing remark or two in some cod dialect. I have the deplorable habit of doing it all the time just for the practice so to speak. Must be tiresome to listen to I agree. Even I am not intoxicated yet, although I did start a medium-sized one soon after five, 45 minutes ago. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:16   Naming your car - Zero

NOTHING pleases my mother. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:21   Naming your car - No FM2R

LOTS pleases your Mother, just not you. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:24   Naming your car - Zero

>> LOTS pleases your Mother, just not you. Well as she manages to moan about anything and everything there is not a LOT left. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 10:43   Naming your car - Mike Hannon

>>The Touran was called, The Touran<< Sorry to drag up your past but didn't you call it The Tourvan? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 3 Mar 15 17:17   Naming your car - Zero

>> >>The Touran was called, The Touran<< >> >> Sorry to drag up your past but didn't you call it The Tourvan? Quite right - I did. Still not a term of endearment tho is it. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 4 Mar 15 13:31   Naming your car - TheManWithNoName

I've just remembered a family car we had called 'Mungo'. It was a snot green Talbot Alpine - remember those? It was very comfy but rattled like a bucket of screws and had the longest wobbliest gear stick ever. I was learning to drive in it once and nearly ended up in a ditch whilst trying to negotiate a junction and grapple with the gears. Getting it into second or third gear in one throw was a real lottery. On one occasion the gear stick fell off completely from its joint and wobbled around being held in place only by the rubber gaiter. That day it was renamed 'bast...' Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 26 Mar 15 21:01   Naming your car - Bromptonaut

I've already explained the rationale for my 'lingo, Enrico and Mrs B's, Fleur. The caravan meanwhile is Bill on account of being hitched to Fleur - Harry Potter reference again. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 26 Mar 15 21:10   Naming your car - Armel Coussine

We call our car 'the car'. More convenient than calling it Alhaji Thingummy Boanerges Whassername Trump, surely? You wouldn't want your car to be mistaken for a Muslim wearing a dodgy rug would you? Reply to this message | Report message       1

Thu 26 Mar 15 21:38   Naming your car - Runfer D'Hills

Have you given your car a new name today Bromp? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 26 Mar 15 22:43   Naming your car - WillDeBeest

So if you're away in a muddy field and you can't get Fleur going, you have to spend the entire weekend inside Bill, do you? Good job you no longer have workmates to report this stuff to on Mondays. };---) 'The car' and, if you really must, 'the caravan'. I'm more convinced than ever. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 00:44   Naming your car - No FM2R

I've never given a car a name, never would and I think its somewhat ridiculous to do so. I used to know a totally gorgeous girl who named all of her cars [all minis]; I was very supportive and admiring of all the names, and in conversation used the names myself, and frequently defended her habit of naming her cars to others. There's a message there somewhere. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 09:48   Naming your car - Bromptonaut

>> There's a message there somewhere. Two of us who've outed ourselves as having cars with names did so at behest of our daughters. Maybe the message is about going along with females in our lives...... Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 10:05   Naming your car - commerdriver

>> Maybe the message is about going along with females in our lives...... >> Peace and harmony is what life is all about That's why we're on this forum, right ? Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 10:14   Naming your car - Zero

>> >> Maybe the message is about going along with females in our lives...... >> >> >> Peace and harmony is what life is all about >> That's why we're on this forum, right ? Of course it is. >>smiles in an angelic way<< Last edited by: Zero on Fri 27 Mar 15 at 10:14 Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 10:22   Naming your car - Pat

Huh! Pat Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 27 Mar 15 12:41   Naming your car - hjd

I'm with Pat! Reply to this message | Report message