Hello all! Newbie here. I'm patiently awaiting our new '09 Mini Cooper S in mellow yellow due to arrive in NY on 5.22.09.

So we're torn between names for the little sucker.. The original was "B" [for the obvious reason, and bc our last name begins with a B]
Now the hub thinks "RUPERT" should be the name. Yea, random... That's how we roll.

So what's the verdict here? What do you all like better?

 

If you were a bicycle rider you could call him "Mellow Johnny" the name lance armstrong call the yellow jersey in the tour de france.

 

hah, not much of a biker..

 

Hrm... mellow yellow/black S... black sport stripes... rear spoiler.. black web spokes...

I'm definitely feeling a bug theme here... You know there's the obvious bee themes we could go with, but that seems so overdone... and while I am a HUGE transformers fan... I just can't in good conscience tell you go to with Bumblebee because... everyone and their mom with a yellow car is using it right now... and they don't even have the disco ball.

I don't know if you're a comic book nerd at all, but I'm really digging "The Hornet" for your car... primarily because of the Peter Parker reference which is a play on those awesome wheels you chose and the vehicle's colors. Not to mention the character concept being used throughout the Marvel Universe but never really picked up and run with as a stand alone story.

Here's the wikipedia article if you're not familiar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet_...eter_Parker.29

My advice though... wait until your car comes and you sit behind the wheel for the first time. He or she will tell you all about him/herself within your first few minutes on the road... if there's a name... it will come to you when you're really starting to get into the motoring groove... and it will be the best name ... ever.

 

Rupert is kinda cute and original. Keep in mind, that if you are having trouble picking a name, you could always wait until you actually take delivery and drive your "little sucker"...something fitting will come you. Best of luck and happy motoring!

 

How about Lucas?

http://www.eol.org/pages/1194666

Black and yellow spider hangin' out on his web.

 

LG: That is one creepy lookin' spider...

 

I know.

But he's got a cool name. And he fits the description.

 

This is true...you may think it SOUNDS crazy...but RG speaks the truth...

 

Well... it doesn't exactly happen as I made it sound... it's not as if cars TALK or anything like that.

But seriously... it does work like that. You find yourself thinking about the car a certain way as you get a feel for them on the road. Viola's came to me on the drive home from the dealership.

From the beginning, I knew she was a girl. She's sexy and sleek and very smart just in the way she looks. She also felt a little devious. I mean come on... cars just shouldn't handle the way a MINI handles. Other cars I've driven just don't stick to the road when you turn the wheel, they don't follow the lines as you move through the bends. There's something sinister about that, something dark and addictive. It's like Belgian chocolate and really, those sorts of things should be illegal.

So I was motoring along feeling all of this stuff... and I was wondering if her name would come to me, or if she even had one. The CD player had been stuck on Radiohead for about half an hour, even though I'd set it on the randomizer. I'd determined then that she was my pale and tragic emo girl and she liked it that way.... and then a bird flew in front of me and there was red all over my windscreen. As I hit the switch for the bug juice, I realized that this car and I were made for each other because my mom would have freaked out if she'd hit a bird... and then the perfect name came to me in a line from Shakespeare in Love. "And her name was Viola."

She's been Viola ever since.

It's cool when it happens. Seriously, wonderfully cool

 

Ok.

Taking a cue from Donovan....

"I'm just mad about SAFFRON...."

The opening line of the song Mellow Yellow...

Surprised that no one had mentioned that one. Maybe TOO obvious?? but it FITS!

Jim

 

I like Saffron...except I'll have to echo RandomGemini, with a little deviation. The car DOES tell you what it's name is - although it doesn't actually "talk" to you, it still "tells" you...and each car has it's own way to "tell." The name just pops into your head and won't go away, you "feel" the car confirming it, and WHAMMO. Bob's your uncle.

Yay for you!

 

RG you're killin me! Great story telling
I definitely hear you though, I figured even if we DID decide on a name, it would most likely change once we drive shim.

 

Another one just came to me- Muhammed Ali
I'll just have to learn how to spell it first

 

What's really sad about the story though.. is that it's entirely true. I felt bad about the bird later... but mostly because I had to wash the blood and feathers off of my brand new car the day after I got her home.

 

ok I somehow totally missed that part of the story I think I was still cackling at "pale emo girl"
What a way to break in the car, huh?!!!

 

Yeah it was, but it seemed appropriate given the circumstances.

You haven't seen my car! Oh no wonder that's funny. She actually IS a pale and tragic emo girl! You can't see them in the photo, but she has black jack side scuttles and a black jack graphic on the sunroof. The entire interior is black on black. Black cloth seats, dark gray color line, piano black interior surface.

 

hah! She is indeed the emo lady now isnt she