Most of us have names for our vans but what about your cars? I don't tend to give mine names, other than 'the Land Rover' , which is not very creative. I used to have a motorbike called Reg but that's about as far as I've gone with my daily mode of transport.
I have a Beetle called “The Bug” after a key ring my dad bought for it. Had a Green Corsa called “The Frog” Got an Astra convertible made by Bertone, called “Bert 1”
I’m obviously not imaginative enough for this game. The van, or the note! Sorry I did have a bay called Rhubarb and now have a bay we call Mary J Blige
I have a Mini with URN in the registration. It’s tempting to call it Ernie, but as it likes to dump its coolant on the floor and leak oil onto hot engine parts like the turbo and exhaust down pipes I’m inclined to think it may well be more of a crematory receptacle for my ashes. I tend to call it Mini. Or that Franco German Piece Of Shi*. The Subaru occasionally gets referred to as Old Faithful. But mostly just The Subaru. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There's very little emotion to be had from modern cars, unless they've gone wrong so it's really just negative sentiments..... This thread suns that up nicely..
Mrs A used to have a Renaut 5 called Claude, because he was French and cost a lot of Monet... She gave it to a friend, and within a couple of weeks it was upside down in a ditch (no one badly hurt)
Mrs named the two mini coopers we have Tommy and Sheldon. Passat Estate is called The Hearse. The van, if it did have a name would be Fagin, as it steals all my cash.
Not sure I go along with that, but then my cars are 13 and 17 years old so perhaps don’t quite qualify as ‘modern’. The flat four in the Subaru has a marvelous and unique character (that some on here may not agree with if it’s in the ‘wrong’ vehicle), and I never tire of driving it. The performance, reliability and all weather capability also generates a strong admiration and appreciation from me anyway, so I’m very fond of it and won’t sell it unless I have no choice or write it off. It’s why I’ve owned 3 over 22 years. Very much an old school driving experience with minimal driver aids (ABS only). I’m just not a car namer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fair enough, but my relatively recent Polo daily is completely characterless, a perfect commuter tool, but dull as dish water, you can't even hear the engine inside the cab.
Sadly we do, and that makes it very hard to part with them because there is emotional involvement pah! Marge...the bug. Marigold yellow, owned it turned out when we got the paperwork back, by an elderly lady who'd owned her from a few months from new. Found in a garage less than a mile away from Gilders in Sheffield who supplied her new in 1976. The lady was called Margaret, although we didn't know that at the time Mel named her! Chip...the Westy. All American bus! Seemed appropriate when we set out on the journey up PCH1 towards LA. Some of you may be too old to remember CHiPs... we're not Goran...the syncro. Ex Finnish government transport. I worked with a dour, hard bloke called Goran, in Espoo. Goran is brown! George...the Doka. The registration made this an obvious choice for @Mrs Busmonkey . Reminiscent of her beloved Georgios Kyriakos Panayiotou George is her daily driver. I'm not going to argue...
We had a Suzuki Alto that was called Tim, as in Tim the Tiny Car, which was inspired by a Harry Hill book called Tim The Tiny Horse. I don’t know why really, it’s just how our minds work . The bay didn’t have a name.
I do get that. I’ve driven plenty of bland, characterless cars in my time! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
boring diesel daily honda civic was referred to as the hondararri (or civighini) as a mildly amusing reference to the fact that i'm old and have given up driving perfomance cars now and have a dull diesel estate, but generally i find modern cars devoid of character just don't seem to get named bus is of course, winnie the poo, named by previous owners kids based on the poo brown colour. we have a "woodstock" yellow bird thing aerial topper and a bobble head charlie brown on the dash, so charlie would have been a better name i think, but too late now
I inherited a Fiat Seicento Sporting when my mother died - being yellow it was given the predictable name of banana. It went on to be a reliable workhorse when we renovated her house, weekly 250 mile round trips down the M4, fully loaded with materials, tools etc., sometimes with double extension ladders on the roof, numerous daily trips to the tip with bags of rubble crammed inside. I never had it serviced and all it cost me was a new alternator - it event survived being squashed when an MOT tester raised the ramp with the rear hatch open One of the few cars I've had that I can honestly say I wish I hadn't sold.
Originally it has Gerald Ford, so we had "Ben & Jerry" but why celebrate a lacklustre American politician and a fat laden tub of "dairy"?
