Do You Name Your Cars?

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Do You Name Your Cars?

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I find it kind of cool actually. If you name it, the car is not just a box on round things to get you from A to B, it becomes more of a intimate connection, a relationship.

What do you think? I will name my first car, I don't know what.

If you do name your cars, tell us their names!
 
Nope. Just call her "she" or that old girl. Or thing.

"Yeah, she's running good"


I do call the truck a rot box every so often.
 
Fun topic, made me do a lot of thinking. I don't tend to name my cars after people due to the annoying clash. For example, saying "Man, Bianca went hard the other night... Shoulda gave her a chip years ago" would certainly get some strange looks around her friends/family. Instead I name them after characteristics...

The Vert- My 300zx convertible got it's name from me seeing them called 'Verts' on a forum. I liked it, said it in front of a couple mates and it stuck.

Smoky the Skyline- The R32 got it's name from pushing out a bucket load of smoke at its first event. A different engine solved the problem but the name still gets used occasionally.

Project Paddlepop- Back in the early days of GT5 online a mate once laughed at a random player's chameleon painted car. He said it looked like a rainbow coloured Paddlepop ice cream. That stayed with me and it's what the (to be picked up) colour changing 300zx will be known as.

The 86- Naming a new car is hard. There's no previous owners names to use, or questionable mods to base off; no flaws to go by or little oddities to think from. I thought about calling it Hutch (hachi-roku) but it just felt forced and would probably clash eventually. So the 86 remains "The eighty six" until it does something wrong :lol:

Edit: I tend to not use these names much in front of people who aren't close friends. Keeps people from getting confused and asking things like "is it a vert or a 300zx?" Aaaahh, the joys that come from owning strange cars.

I've never used the terms "whip, ride, rust bucket, pig, wheels, bus, rig or beast" to describe any of my cars. I'm happy just calling them cars :lol:
 
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Nah...for some reason it seems feminine to name your car. I usually refer to it as "my truck".
 
My girlfriend named all hers, from the top:

Margo (Micra)
Temp (Megane)
Dac (307)
Blue (307)

She also named my first car and my scooter:

Skye (306)
Bumble (Sym 100)

Also my friend and his girlfriend named theirs, Guzo (Micra) and Tina (Twingo).

I personally don't. Though I did form an attachment to Blue and Skye.
 
My Civic is called The Bomber. Utterly adore its simple and tasteful looks, and basically it's bigger, faster, more powerful and has a higher displacement than my best mate's car. As childish a reason as that.
 
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My car is only a tool used to take me from A-B, the only sentimental feelings I have for a vehicle are for a few of the bikes on the garage.

That being said, I sometimes call my car "small blue."

Because it is small, and it is blue.
 
I just call it the Lincoln. I don't know what else I'd call it, except maybe Titanic :lol:.
 
My Camaro is named "Kates Dirty Sister" and the Corvette is named "Scarlett".... :)
 
Anyone who's a regular around here should know about Bruiser now. :lol:

He got his name from his paint, which is Panther Black Pearl, and it shifts from black to purple, kind of like a bruise, so the name Bruiser came about. Sometimes I call him 'Bruise' too. :p
 

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