Nah, vehicles are akin to sea vessels and names are entirely appropriate in my book. Unlike a bar of soap they have specific characteristics and interact with you very closely (although a bar of soap does get pretty close :D); they create an environment and experience all their own.

I always name them - cars, motorcycles - if no name comes to mind we know there is a bonding problem going on and something is amiss

 

My lil MCS is Travis. He's MY with almost all the checkerboard you can get.
Geddit?

 

Donovan - Why? Cuz, They call me Mellow Yellow!

 

When I first started visiting the forum before I ordered a new car, I thought is was funny that many people on the forum had names for their cars. So I thought I would give it a funny name.

On Spike TV there is a dubbed Japanese TV show called MXC. Its a show where teams compete against each other in crazy or dangerous stunts. All of the names of the participants are made up names based on celebrities or "dirty words". For some reason, in every episode there is a contestant with the last name "Babaganoosh". My kids and I always thought that was funny. so the name stuck.

But 99% of the time the whole family just calls it the mini.

 

Donovan - Why? Cuz, They call me Mellow Yellow! -- captsprocket

NICE!

 

My wife named hers "Fiona", just because it seemed to fit.

Mine is named "Dutch", after the "Flying Dutchman", because when it was making its trip from Oxford to the U.S., everyone lost track of it for about a month. MINI couldn't tell me where it was, my MA had no idea, checking its status online said that it was at the dock, then on the boat, then back off the boat on the dock again, then back at the factory, etcetera etcetera.

It's actually convenient having names for them to keep from getting them confused (they're both 2006 'S' convertibles). When I send in used oil samples for analysis, I even use "Fiona" and "Dutch" as the unit numbers on the paperwork, so the results don't get confused.

 

I named mine after my cat Munchie (Short for Munchkin).

Munchie was found in the trash can of a fast food place off of I-85 outside Durham, very sick and malnourished. The vet thinks he has some elements of dwarfism in him as he is real tiny. I don't think the vet thought he'd make it when we brought him home and to the vet. On his third or fourth vet visit the vet proclaimed him to be the luckiest cat alive. He's a fighter and scrapper.

Anyway it seemed appropriate to name the Mini after the cat. Both tiny and a heart of a lion...

 

My car is named "Miss America" because everytime I see her, I sing to myself "There she is"....so thats how she got her name...

 

Guys youare great, love the thought you put into naming her

 

Mr Bumble

 

I named my MINI "Sandy" Once beach sand gets in a car it usually there for the life of the car.

 

My wife named hers "Percy". When she says "because it is a fine British name" I break out in song.
"When a man loves a woman, she can do no wrong....."

And people, I don't sing. I make sounds.

 

 

Haha, I like all the creativity in these names!

Mine was just ordered, so not even here, and I've already begun to refer to him as Tucker!

 

Mine is also on order and I haven't come up with a name. I hope inspiration hits me when I pick him/her up...

 

My toothbrush told me to tell you that it's not silly and he, (Fred) resents what you said!

 

When I took delivery of my MCS, my MA told me, "you do realize that these cars name themselves, right?". My first thought was, "oh God, he's one of those people!"

I will admit that I refer to my truck (95 F-150 extended cab, long bed) as the Battlestar Galactica because, well, it's friggin' HUGE! One fine morning I walked outside to hop into the Mini to go to work and, as I looked lovingly over at him, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I blurted out, "Good morning, Tug." He was parked behind the Battlestar Galactica and looked like a shiny new tugboat behind a well-used barge. My MA was right, he named himself.

 

We named them because that's what people in the cult (the owner's lounge) seemed to do, once we got the first one it seemed quite sensible. However, the first one never did got named, because someone could never decide on the right name.

Ever since then I've been more proactive about naming, I get an idea and unless someone comes up with a better idea, that's the name. (And she hasn't yet.)

 

I never intended to name my MINI. But, one day about a year after I brought her home, we did a particularly fast swerve and dodge in traffic at high speed to avoid an incident happening ahead of me. After we got clear I reached up, patted the dash and out of my mouth came "Nice job Isabelle."

She's been Isabelle ever since.

I guess I agreed with Warped's MA - they name themselves.

 

I do have a Miata and a Lotus but no Grand prix, I do however have a grand prix white Honda S2000 and each of these cars whether purchased as a cheap beater or an expensive track toy mean as much to me as your MINI's mean to you. I paid every hard earned cent whether more or less and I appreciate my things just as much as the next person, however it's still just a material belonging.

 

Sea vessels are named for a purpose, they don't have license plates and are identified by the Coast Guard etc by name. When a cop pulls you over he doesn't check the DMV for any records linked to "Scrappy" he pulls your plate and drivers license #.

 

When I brought mine home, my soon to be ex wife gave me a hard time because I got a "miniature car" instead of a regular size car or an SUV . The very next day I went to the DMV, reserved my vanity plate (MNIATUR) and ordered an euro plate on Ebay with "MINIATURA" in it, just to mess with her... The rest is history...

 

Reginald

 

Because he's not JUST a car! He's my friend, not just some appliance. I've always named my cars, and connected with them....It's just more fun!!!!!

 

All three of my cars are named, however they aren't very exciting:

2008 S - The MINI
1974 Classic - The Classic
Honda Odyssey - The Honda