car names

[splatthefat]

Prompted by another poster in another thread (show us our shite), what do we, if indeed we do, call our cars?

 

My C5 is 'Clive' (after Clive Sinclair), the Midget is 'Myrtle' (dunno why), the Jag is 'The Jaaaaaaaag' (with as many 'a's as I can get away with) with the 323 being 'Tamsin' and my old Doblo being Doris.

 

Over to you.

 

CJ

[whitevanman]

The p100 (both of them), the Rover, the Sapphire, The pile (P100 cortina that is a bit of a pile of shit)etc.............don't generally give my cars names..

[cms206]

Afraid I do this as well; Derek the Cavalier, Savalas the Volvo... the last Volvo was Loki 'cos the fucker never ran right, the ex Garbaldy Cavalier Classic was Sooty (previously owned by a chimney sweep).

 

Oddly the Senator remains unnamed...

[richardthestag]

My stag is called rupert. Years ago just after I got it my then girlfriend commented that it was quite butch but a little bit too pretty, like rupert Everett. Her words not mine

 

I was amused enough to let it stick even though girlfriend had left the scene, 4 weeks was considered lengthy in relationship terms at that time in my life, beer etc being far more important than a load of earache and an occasional cuddle.

 

Then I managed to get married and had kids who call it rupert. I guess that sticks until I sell it, which may or may not happen anytime soon as I am getting bored with it until I drive it then fall in love again. With rupert the stag that is rather than rupert Everett.

[flat4alfa]

I call it bastard

[Cavcraft]

V.E.O (Veg Oil Express)

[Junkman]

Only my Rover has a name. Nemesis. For obvious reasons.

[richardthestag]

But the rover was in ls&2sb and not snatch.

[RedSparrow]

Nothing official but 'stupid piece of shit' seems to crop up occasionally.

[Junkman]

But the rover was in ls&2sb and not snatch.

 

Huh?

[meggersdog]

Deg the discovery is often referred to as the chip van

the 306 is the veg-wagon

The discovery 2 is a piece of shit,often referred to as the unreliable piece of shit and sometimes the over-complicated,expensive,unreliable piece of shit.

[skattrd]

I'm with WVM, the Volvo, the Alfa etc.

Occasionally my cars do acquire nicknames; VW bora = "the boring" unoriginal but true and my little Daihatsu's are nicknamed "sneezes" due to the sneeze like sound from the dump valve.

[richardthestag]

But the rover was in ls&2sb and not snatch.

 

Huh?

 

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_4178-Rover ... -1974.html

 

Rover p6 was vinnie jones steed in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels but the nemesis speech by brick top was in the follow up film snatch.

 

Or is your obvious reason different from mine

[ashmicro]

All my mark 3 & 4 Escorts were named "Betsy", as the first one was an 1100, and I was always shouting at it "C'MON BETSY!"

 

R8 214SEi was, collectively and severally "CUNT", "bastard car" and "shit heap"

 

The twin-Webered Metro GTa was "The Hoon", and the R3 is "Roy"

 

I previously called all my Mercs "Hermann", but this one is "The Zeppelin" cos it's huge and rides on air.

 

One of my mates has a Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, which he has named "The Bungalow", due to its aerodynamic properties, and he refers to his sister's Pruis as "The Pedal Car"

[trigger]

Tina, Original i know.

[Junkman]

Rover p6 was vinnie jones steed in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels but the nemesis speech by brick top was in the follow up film snatch.

 

Or is your obvious reason different from mine

 

Very much so, since I don't even know the movie.

 

Nemesis (Greek, ÃŽÂέμεÃιÂ), was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge.

 

The car has so far given me vengeful retribution for everything I did to it. Other cars are grateful when someone has pity with them and adopts them, not this one though. It is pure evil. It is my Nemesis.

[ashmicro]

Notice how the remorseless one is female? It was ever thus...

[gtd2000]

V.E.O (Veg Oil Express)

 

..shouldn't that be either V.O.E or Veg Express Oil

[gtd2000]

Only had a name for one of my cars "The Bullet"

 

[trigger]

My first car was known as the flying turd.

 

My first car, Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Swing by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[richardthestag]

Rover p6 was vinnie jones steed in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels but the nemesis speech by brick top was in the follow up film snatch.

 

Or is your obvious reason different from mine

 

Very much so, since I don't even know the movie.

 

Nemesis (Greek, ÃŽÂέμεÃιÂ), was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge.

 

The car has so far given me vengeful retribution for everything I did to it. Other cars are grateful when someone has pity with them and adopts them, not this one though. It is pure evil. It is my Nemesis.

 

Same idea then

 

"nemesis" (Ritchie, BrickTop) A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.

 

And I know all about that vengeance thing that cars seem to inflict on caring owners who are only trying to fix em.

[Craig the Princess]

In order Chlöe, Albert, Alice (now deceased), Herbert, Percy, Widget, Rover, Mickey, Xena, Busby, Oscar, Daisy, Bill, Ken, Metro, Coupe, Elieen, Borris, Bronwyn. And no more.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Cutey car names is a one-way ticket to FAILville i'm afraid

[Albert Ross]

Current daily driver Land Rover is Pebbles. (PEB reg plate)

Sierra is Sarah.

Focus is un-named. (Yet thoroughly deserving of one)

Other stuff.

1961 109 is Daisy.... (Not what I called it...)

1980ish 109 is Qbert. (Q plated)

Discovery is "Frenzy"

 

Older stuff now gone/made into toasters.

Mk2 Cortina was Colette or CLiT (CLT plate)

Super Minx was Hepzibah.

Sceptre was Labia. (LBL plate)

Humber Imperial was Neville.

Standard Vanguard was "The Doctor" (DRL plate)

Austin 3 Litre was Roger.

Citroen DS was Pierre the Pallas.

 

I now feel old.... thanks....

[Spiny Norman]

The Merc doesn't have enough character to warrant a name but the Saab has been christened Chloe, for reasons a Mozart lover would understand...

[Justin Case]

I don't normally give my cars names but I made an exception (for obvious reasons) for my Saab 96L:

 

 

 

* Copy of a copy of the original, the colours are actually identical as all who can remember 70s Saabs would know

[Junkman]

And I know all about that vengeance thing that cars seem to inflict on caring owners who are only trying to fix em.

 

I know exactly where you're coming from, trust me. It seems to be much, much worse with English cars, than any others though.

That Rover of mine tried to kill me on countless occasions. It is possessed. Hence I can't pass it on, that would be first degree murder.

I will die with it, I'm afraid.

[KruJoe]

Cutey car names is a one-way ticket to FAILville i'm afraid

I'm with BLX. Or I was.

My BX Preview has the most character of any car I've had as a daily, so when asked if it has a name, I reluctantly admit: Yes, it's called André.

André Preview. Geddit?

[ifc63]

I've never named any of my cars personally but 3 of the current fleet have been given names by friends.

 

The red Sunchaser is and always has been called Mister X for obvious reasons

 

 

The Corolla Liftback is referred to as the '70's Porn Star Car as my mate Neil seems to think it's should be driven by a leather-coated moustachioed medallion man from that era

 

 

And Neil also christened the Corolla EE80 the Tuesday Car as I always turn up at his on a Tuesday in it ( he's never really figured out that Tuesday is my day off and that was the only day I turn up at his !!! )

 

 

Other than that all cars past and present have been called by what they are/were, the Cortina, the Astra, the X1/9 etc.

[eddyramrod]

I'm a bit erratic about naming cars; and occasionally I'll take one on that already has a name, but whether I continue to use that or not is very much pot luck. At present, my Granada doesn't really have a name, although obviously they're all called Granny; and my Metro van is Tomato, named by me simply because of its colour. Of the 5 other cars I had in Cyprus, only the project A40 had a name: donated by the previous owner's son. It was Annie.