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Does anyone name their car?

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    guitargirl    October 2009   Ohio

    I just got a new car and trying to come up with a name.  Who else names their cars?  What name?  What kind of car?  Why did you choose that name?

     
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    AmeliaBedelia    March 3, 2012   Georgia

    I do. :)

    My car is a Silver 2004 Toyota Solara...I named her Zippy...because I have a lead foot and she has a V-6. I got 2 speeding tickets with her. Embarassed Lol. I'm about to get something new and I'm kind of sad to see her go. :(

    ETA: My Mom's Suburban is called BATTY. Why? Mom says "Because it's a Big Ass Truck...BAT...Batty." Lol.

     
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    NowDontLetsBeSilly    August 17, 2013   Seattle, WA

    I drive a gray 2002 Beetle, and her name is Betty.  Everyone knows about her name, and friends will ask "So how's Betty doing?" all the time!  I picked it because it has a ring to it - Betty the Beetle - and because I tend towards more old-fashioned names often (I don't know any Betty's my age)

     
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    sarahbabs    September 8, 2012   NYC, wedding in the Hudson Valley

    @NowDontLetsBeSilly: Hehe, when I was growing up, our old station wagon's name was Bessy, and then the Chevette that followed was Bessette :)  B names are just very fitting for cars for some reason!

     
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    Juliepants    June 2, 2012   Ontario

    I do!  My car's name is Binks.  It has to do with the letters on my license plate, plus it just sounds cute (she's cute).  :)

    FI's van is named Barney (it used to be his Oma's and she named it but rarely drove it).  So, Binky and Barney hang out together in the driveway!  Haha.

     
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    panterapeach    April 2011  

    Yes, my car's name is Essie!

     
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    Julesb81    June 11, 2011   Olympia Washington

    right now my cars name is P.O.S.! i cant wait to get rid of it.

     
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    BrianneG    June 5, 2010   Redondo Beach, CA

    I have a Toyota Matrix and I named her Matilda. Before that, I had a Mercury Tracer I named Trixie and a Volkswagen Jetta named Greta. I name everything though. My last laptop was named Noah (like from the Notebook because it was a notebook PC) and my current laptop is named Harry Potter because it's an HP.

     
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    NowDontLetsBeSilly    August 17, 2013   Seattle, WA

    @BrianneG: I named my last HP laptop Harry Potter also!  I got a new one, and it's name is Herbert Pierce. 

    I name everything also.  I named my bf's BMW Bartholomew because it contains the letters b, m, and w.  I named an owl necklace Owl-fred.  My old fish was Gilbert Milton Jefferson III (there were no I and II).  And my teddy bear is Harold Monroe.  I don't know why cars don't get last names, it seems everything else does.

     
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    sexxysheddy    October 21, 2012   Dirty Jersey

    My 1st car was a small honda civic which I called big red now I got a bigger car so I name her little silver..LOL

     
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    ruby26    July 2012   Chicago, Illinois

    I call my tiny light blue Toyota Yaris "Linus", and the name fits him perfectly!

     
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    NDBee    March 10, 2012  

    Haha, my little bro and I had a near-fight when I got a car that was to be his for a while (he was in an accident with mine, but not his fault), so I named it while I had it.

    When he finally got it, he wanted to rename it. We agreed to disagree, so we each refer to it with different names and the whole family knows what car we're talking about. LOL.

     
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    Stace126    September 28, 2013   Pittsburgh, PA

    heck yes! 

    My very first car was a 1998 Hyundai Accent (white) and I named her Shelby because she kind of looked like an egg ... egg shell ... Shelby ...

    I now have a 2006 Chevy Aveno (bright blue) named Tobey. Love him!

    I also convinced my fiance to name his silver Equinox Geno after Evegeni "Geno" Malkin who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins. lol 

     
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    tksjewelry    June 25, 2011   Omaha

    YES!   I call it Fix or Repair Daily, and that seems to be what it is doing to me lately :(  Last week the gas gauge quit, LOL, oh well, DHs issue now.

     
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    mmsva    October 9, 2010   Alexandria, VA

    My friend in college named her car Binky. We all called it Binky. In fact, when we were trying to decide which car to take I would say, 'do you want to take my car or Binky?'

     
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    helenberrycrunch    January 1, 1992  

    I have a chevy malibu named Barbie. I had a person ask me once if I knew I had Malibu Barbie har har har. I looked at them and said, "Yes. That was intentional."

    Before I had a Taurus named Elaine, a Maxima named Mossimo, and a Kia named k-k-k-kia.

     
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    Aure    October 6, 2012   Las Vegas

    My VW Jetta is named "Squishy." It has squishy leather seats that made me think of Finding Nemo when I test drove it ("I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy!").

    Does anyone name their car? :  wedding IMG 20110421 184001

    My old car, a Saturn SL2, was named "Little Car" and I named FI's black Mazda RX-8 "Batmobile."

     
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    peaches13    July 9, 2011   Texas

    Yes!  My current car is Miss Sapphire for now--she's still fairly new.  My old car was Miss Pearl, the Holy Roller--long conglomeration of a bunch of college jokes.

     
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    cbee    July 26, 2010  

    Had a black mustang named Betty :)  She was great!  I miss her, but DH went wild in her, she was like drugs to him.  Now I only let him drive a 4 cylinder. 

     
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    Gabrielle123    November 5, 2011  

    My car's name is Appolonia !

     
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    mrscheetos    June 10, 2012  

    My 2002 passat's name is Sheldon.

     
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    Catherine    July 9, 2011   Ottawa

    Yep! I did this for all my cars and my parents cars as well. My current car (an orange Pontiac G5) is Snooki!

     
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    mrs_pugetsound    May 14, 2011  

    I have a 2003 Saturn Ion.  It is bright blue, and the doors are made of plastic.  So, I always joked about my car being made out of Tupperware and being shaped like a bubble,  Hence, my car is the Tupperbubble. Plus it made me think of a funny rhyme I once saw on a cartoon about Tupperware "Winter, Summer, Spring, or Autumn...press the bubble on the bottom!"  Oh my, I need sleep....

     
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    bakerella    September 11, 2010   Toronto, ON

    My truck is named Betty. And then my friend gave me a Justin Beiber sticker for losing a game at her birthday party (whomp whomp, I got the loser prize, lol!) which I stuck to my visor, so she's now the Betty Beibs Mobile :)

     
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    beccabelle10    May 12, 2012   Nebraska

    My first car was a Chevy Cavalier and I named her Esther. My second car was a Lincoln LS and I named her Lucy. And my car now is a blue Mazda CX-7 and I call her Eleanor Rigby.

     
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    When I was in high school I drove a van that everyone called "The Beast of the East" haha! No one ever just said "the van" it was just "The Beast of the East"

     
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    adnama    July 21, 2012   Langley, Britsh Columbia

    Yes! My current car is named Jasper, but my first car was name Big Bertha (it was a big blue car)

     
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    misskittykakes    October 20, 2012   Nor Cal

    I had a white eclispe spyder ...I called her Whiskers....then I crashed her into a retaining wall....so long Whiskers :(

     
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    MissCallieJean       NY

    My car was Frank the Tank. I had a 93 mercury that I drove my senior year of high school up until last winter, when he passed away in his sleep. Poor Frank. He really was a tank. That car took a beating. I drove the V8 right outa the engine. lol I miss him.

     
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    Emily_Joy    June 7, 2013   Texas/Colorado

    I drive my SO's old car. When we first started dating it's what he was driving so we have a lot of fond memories of it. We had our first kiss inside of it actually. It's name is Clarence. When I got the car, I couldn't see naming it anything else so I kept it.

     
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    Crabbabs    September 8, 2012   Madison, Wisconsin

    I do, and so does FI!

    His first car was Tasha. Mine was the "go-cart".

    We both have new cars since then. His is Ron, mine is Oliver :) 

     ETA: FI thinks that every car already has a name, and that we just have to figure it out. It took a couple of weeks for FI to find out Ron's name. He thought it was a girl, but it wasn't :)

     
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    linguo42    February 27, 2011   Vancouver, B.C.

    My 2002 VW Jetta's name is Dragonfly. It was the first word that came into my head when I saw her, she was so sleek and pretty. I even found an etched dragonfly shell pendant to hang from the rearview mirror.

     
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    MerryWidow    July 21, 2012   Saratoga, NY

    Yes!!  I have named all of my cars, since I was 17 and had my very first!!  They've been Merdock, Shiloh, Garnet and Merlot.  This one is a 2005 Ford Taurus that I call "The F*&%ing Taurus"...because I wanted a Mustang.  I always wanted one, and my late husband even woke me up early one Saturday morning so we could go to the dealership to look at one!!  After 2 days of 'discussions', I didn't get my Mustang, I got my F*&%ing Taurus instead.  Can you tell I was bitter?  LOL  The funny thing is, everyone (including my current FI) still refers to it as such, never just 'Merry's Car'.

     

     
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    JessieK    December 31, 2015  

         I LOVE that other people do this! I always named my cars (and computers/laptops) and my friends always gave me a hard time about it! I just got my car and havn't found a fitting name yet, but my last one was a grand-am named "Sue" - from Johnny Cash's  "boy named Sue" - that car had balls, but with a chicks touch :)

     

     
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    Shosha1    April 14, 2012   Ottawa, Ontario

    Could never come up with a name for my car (a Dodge SX 2.0) except for Sexy, but FI drives a Ford Taurus, and pretty much since our first date, I've called her Tori.  It drove FI crazy at first, but now he calls her Tori too!

     
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    burris4    December 16, 2004   Illinois

    I have a 2010 Ford Fusion named Thalia.  I named her that because she is beautiful and I love her and wanted a refined and beautiful name for her.

    Does anyone name their car? :  wedding 1nwcr4

     
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    Rica2002    November 10, 2012   Virginia

    VW Passat....his name is Boris....he's German :-)

     
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    Aure    October 6, 2012   Las Vegas

    @Catherine: Hahaha! I love that!

     
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    youtookmyseat    June 22, 2013   Washington

    i drive a scion... his name is sidney scion... mainly after the fact that i love sidney crosby. hahaha

     

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