Am I the only one who names cars?

[MomtoCandJ]

We bought my new to car today, a 2013 Ford Fusion. I named her Luna because she's silver :) my previous car, a 2002 Ford Taurus was named Sandy (gold colored). Dh's truck is named Beau

(Chevy Silverado, grayish color). I have also named all the other previous vehicles dh and I have owned :)

[saja1029]

My husband names everything. I name only LIVING things.

 

I don't get it. At all.

[Slache]

Ours is Blanch. She's an opinionated blue Prius. We've also had a Nancy (Versa) and a Turk (Cherokee).

[MyThreeSons]

My dh has always named his vehicles. His favorite was Gus, a beautiful old Mercedes he picked up for a really good deal. Gus got totalled on our honeymoon.  :crying: But dh bought him back from the insurance company, and got him fixed up to better condition than what he'd been before the accident. 

[TammyinTN]

Sadly...yes my little VW bug is called Betsybug.   :auto:

[MrsMommy]

My first car was named Franklin. I later learned that the name basically means freedom, which seemed appropriate. When he died, his replacement was Frances. And then there are the minivans...Hubert, Suki, and our current car, Liesel (you know, because she's a Volkswagen). I only regularly used the names of the cars and the first minivan, though. I guess once we started naming children, the car names became less important! :)

[quark]

My previous van was Seabiscuit and my current van is The Tardis. :D Yes, I name them. My DH names his too and I think our DS will name his future car (or I will name it for him). :D

[Anne in CA]

We usually name the car after the letters on the plate. My dd was very worried that we wouldn't get a vowel last time. We have had Zez, Fub, and Bru. 

[3 ladybugs]

I have named cars and other things since I was a nanny. It was fun with the kids.

 

I have a 2000 Camry that is Sally. I bought her new but she is blue like the Cars Sally.

We also have a 2007 Odyssey named Maya. She we also got new and she was suppose to be red but I didn't like red that year so she is brown. Before we got her we would drive by minivans and I would say to DH "mine?" It was a joke but it turned into a thing for us. So DH started calling minivan car lots "minefields". So when we actually got the minivan it was fitting to name her Maya.

 

DH had a 97 contour that he sold right before we got married (we lived in a major city and only needed one car). I ended up calling it "dodgy mobile". DH doesn't like that name but oh well. 😄

 

My former employers had a Jeep named "Eep" (the child named that), a Saab wagon that normally drove named Wilber, a BMW that replaced Eep that was Rauel and an Exposition that I am forgetting the name of right now.

[Guest]

Nope. My Honda Accord is Hope and my Datsun b210 was Stella.

[Lara in Colo]

I want to--- but I am not creative enough

 

[FriedClams]

My car is Nigel. He got his name in the first month, which is odd. It usually takes years.

[maize]

Our cars always have names :) Our big van is named Rumblebuffin after the giant in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

[happi duck]

Don't most people? Every time we buy a car from an individual we ask what the name is and no one has ever not had a name!

[PuddleJumper1]

I have christened my current van Charlie in honor of The Kingston Trio's song 'Charlie on the MTA'. My van and I are out almost every day (therapy and doctors) and it seems that we will never make it home ( two of the days are 6 - 7 hours long). I find myself singing the chorus to that song on particularly long days or days when I have to go somewhere new.  When it's time for a new license plate I'm getting one that says Charlie :)

[Tiberia]

We just call ours The Van and The Truck, but I had a friend who had a Honda Civic named Fenry Honda. 

[MiMi 4under3]

I don't name our vehicles, it's simply "The Truck."

 

But my kids do name all sorts of household objects like the old TV, which is Sylvester. And our spatula is Mr. Spatchie. There's lots more but I'll stop here... 

[swimmermom3]

My first car was "The Heavy Chevy" - 1972 Chevy Malibu

 

The second car was "The Silver Slug" - 1977 Plymouth Volare

 

My current mini-van is white and my mother had named it "Pearl"

 

My dh's Camry is a white sports edition with a license plate that sort of reads "Ducks"

[Miss Peregrine]

I have never named a car.

[Bug's Mom]

Not usually, but dd & I do call to our 2006 Scion xB  the tardis, because it's blue and bigger on the inside. 

[Southern Ivy]

My first car was Tanner. It was a tan '87 Honda Civic. 

Then, I had a green '96 Pontiac Grand Am. I named it Pickle. It was more of a lemon. 

The first brand new car I bought was called Baby because I was ridiculously careful with that thing and I was so proud of it. 

My current car, a white Santa Fe, has no name - unless you consider "my car/your car" it's name since that's the only way DH and I refer to it. 

[amsunshine]

No, you are not the only one!  Our current car is red and she is named Rosie (short for Rosetta -- the Disney fairy...my dds named her a few years back.)

[Grover]

We currently have Fred, and before that I had Marvin and Borange.  When I met DH I named his car Custard.  His parents drive Yeti.  His brother's care is Hari.  Yeah, I name stuff. 

[Cinder]

We're also boring. We have The Van and Tiny--a Ford Fiesta.

 

Our bil had a car named Hortense but I can't remember what kind of car she was. And I remember when I was little we had a Chevy Bel Air that we called the Beach Bum.

[BigMamaBird]

No, our mini van is named Vincent as in Vincent Van-Go.  Yuck, yuck, yuck.   :lol:

 

And my first car, a little red Saturn was named Sparky.

[Corraleno]

I named one of our cars accidentally. We have an Odyssey and a Pilot. One day DS asked which car we were taking to fencing and I distractedly muttered "The Odyssey's low on gas, we'll have to take the Iliad."  :lol:

[happypamama]

My van is officially named Shadowfax because it's white and carries my little hobbits, but in reality, we call it The Beast because it's huge and monstrous and altogether amazing, and I adore it so much that I can't believe I ever even hesitated about getting a twelve passenger van over another minivan.

[creekland]

Jigs is out in the driveway.  We've had Lux and Vic and Hetrick, but they've all passed on.

 

Hubby's truck (any truck) has never really been named though.  I guess prejudice happens to all of us at some point.

[Mimm]

We just got a new minivan and I gave my kids naming rights. I never named my vehicles, but they decided on Kari. It was named after the babysitter in The Incredibles, who we always loved and laughed at. But it's also kind of a family joke. I always tease them that when they were younger, they were terrible at naming things. If it was a pink stuffed bunny, they'd name it pinky, or fuzzy, or bun bun. Something very obvious and unimaginative. Well, Kari is pronounced like Car-y.

[foxbridgeacademy]

Yes, usually Bessie.  We got a new car back in October for DH and I think it needs naming but Lightning just doesn't fit a grey focus.  We're still working on it.

 

As a kid every car had a nickname....

The Green Bean(a 1970s Nova), Lame Eagle(GMC Eagle), El Carrucha(El Camino), Chief (red and white f350), Orange Freezie (Orange F250), Patch (excessive use of bondo, who I wrapped around a tree at 17) ..... can you tell kids named them?  We had MANY more cars due to my father's job as a body repair man but those are the ones I remember the best.

[Grover]

 

 

Our bil had a car named Hortense but I can't remember what kind of car she was.

 

My bicycle is called Hortensia.  She is beautiful.

 

[SKL]

My car's name is Sharky.  He is silver and has a shark fin on his back (the antenna thingy).

[SKL]

We tried to get the auntie to name her Odyssey "Odessa," but she wouldn't go for it.  She settled on Sparkle.

[Guest]

No, our mini van is named Vincent as in Vincent Van-Go.  Yuck, yuck, yuck.   :lol:

 

 

 

:hurray: My sister's van was Yvan the Terrible because the "Che" fell off. :lol:

[SKL]

My first purchased-by-me (very used) car was named "Sunshine."  That was to put a positive light on its then-unpopular lemon yellow color.

[mamajag]

My husband names things he loves. There was his truck, Christine, who was the vehicular love of his life. Now there's Bessie, a diesel Dodge dually, Margaret, one of his massive pistols, and Bertha, our KitchenAid mixer.

[UncleEJ]

I don't but now I want to!

[MeaganS]

My 6 year old names all our cars. She likes naming things and uses the names so consistently that the rest of us just sort of follow her lead. Our Honda Odyssey is named "Vantley" and our Acura is named "Black Lightning." We used to have a Jeep named "Monster Jeepy."

 

My first car was named Archibald, but I called him Archie for short. I bought him for $500 and he lasted for 2 years. He was the little car that could...most of the time. He was a 1995 Ford Escort.

[Jayne J]

Our van is Salome. She's lovely, but if you're not careful, she'll have your head on a plate...

[HRAAB]

We have a Scooter, Tuffy, Wendy, and Gimli.  Used to have a Roxie and Seafoamuffin.

[LucyStoner]

My parents named our cars when I was a kid. Our cars were generally very old VW Buses though. A car like that needs a name. The most memorable was O'Malley, a forest green bus from the late 60s.

 

We drive Toyotas. Toyotas don't merit names like 1969 VWs do.

[LucyStoner]

My first car was a hand-me-down from my dad. It was a 1984 Chrysler New Yorker...very swanky...very plush.

 

It had a voicebox: "A door... is ajar." Said in a British male voice.

 

We called him Winston.

My grandparents had a talking car too. My grandfather, a cantankerous hard scrabble WWII vet, talked back. It's one of my fondest memories of my granddad. A door is ajar. stupid car, a door is a door, not a jar.

[MrsWeasley]

My minivan is La Mer.

[jewellsmommy]

We named the GPS Bob. I jokingly started to refer to our car as the Blueberry after watching so many Psych episodes. It is a dark blue (indigo, actually) matrix, so not too different from Gus's car. We name our Christmas trees too.

[happi duck]

My van is officially named Shadowfax because it's white and carries my little hobbits, but in reality, we call it The Beast because it's huge and monstrous and altogether amazing, and I adore it so much that I can't believe I ever even hesitated about getting a twelve passenger van over another minivan.

Aww, we had a car called The Beast. I truly miss that car.

[Amber in SJ]

Our MDX is called "The Big Car" and the Camry is called "The Baby Car."  The GPS in each car has a real name, though.  The GPS in The Big Car is named Trudy for her lovely accent, and the GPS in The Baby Car is named Carmen, as in "Where is Carmen Sandiego?"  

 

Just as a side note the Kindles in our house are named Atticus, Baba Yaga, the unstealthy ninja & Pinkerton.  The ipods are named Sheamus, Clarence and Rufus.  My sourdough starter is named Horace.

 

Amber in SJ

 

 

[SKL]

Some of our cars have been named __mobile after either the owner's name or the license tag letters.

[gardenmom5]

nope.  I've known people who do.

 

there was a van I'd seen around at times with a distinctive vanity plate.  I eventually - and pure coincidence, ended up getting something from them via freecycle.  I asked about the name and how they came up with it.  well, they named all their cars, but couldn't come up with a name for this one.  so, it could not be named, so they named it after he who could not be named.  voldermort.

[trulycrabby]

No, but I do name my vacuum cleaners. :o

[SparklyUnicorn]

We have a Scooter, Tuffy, Wendy, and Gimli.  Used to have a Roxie and Seafoamuffin.

 

awww you named a car after me?!

 

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