Does anyone else’s other half insisted on naming their car?

Recently my wife has owned:-

Mini Cooper – Matilda
Golf TDI – Cladia Van Tiesel (German diesel)
Golf 4 motion – Heidi (German mountain climber)

We now have the dilemma of an Audi A4 replacing the Mini, and she is stuck for a name. I suggested Adolf but it didn’t go down very well. Any suggestions?

My three year old differentiates between my car and my wife’s car by calling mine the racing car. Sometimes he calls it lightening McQueen.

It’s a Volvo v70 and I haven’t got the heart to burst his bubble but some day he’s going to learn the sad truth.

Naming a car is not good.

My 4yo son named my 205 Rosie Chocolate Cake, quite like it.

My Berlingo is called Brian.

My car is called golf.

George the bus – 86 VW camper
Bessie the beast – 87 VW Syncro
Eric – 69 Beach Buggy
Clifford – 72 Scimitar
Gertie – 69 Beetle
Winnie – 60 Bay VW camper
Cilla – 72 Beetle
George – 69 Beetle

and they were just my cars!

Fiesta = fessie

Polo = Paula

Old polo = ickle car

Golf = gund ( due to number plate ) or flog ( golf backwards )

Works van = the vansss ( as in Lou and Andy off little Britain )

Yep we are sad 😳

everyone of them has been “the motor’
works best in Lanarkshire accent.

Fiesta – Red (It was red)
Fiat 500 – Ross (It was also Red [Rosso?])
Hyundai Veloster – Banana Mobile (Its bright yellow).

Can you see where this is going.

My cars have been called (by her) shed on wheels #1, #2, #3 etc.

The wife’s family do this. Always have it appears.
So now, it seems I do too

So we have :

Fabia vrs – Cedric (after Cedric Daniels from The Wire)
Signum – Freud (didn’t take long to come up with that one!)

I actually use the names now so I can’t really moan about it!!! 🙂

My lad called my last car (Peugeot 406) Daddy red car. Very cute, even though it was burgundy. Current car (Lexus 430) is called the Boost Car, as he likes the power switch on the dash, and the feel when I put my foot down.

My dad had a big cortina estate when I was a lad, it was named goldie by my sister. You never see many gold cars now, which is a shame, its all moody hues of blues and grey through to black.

My car is called Shark after my nephew (3) decided it looked like a shark,
Fiancée’s is called vixen due to numberplate
Fiancée’s company car is called the big blue, golf Bluemotion.

On reflection it does seem a little sad to name cars.

Klaus (to rhyme with mouse, not claws)

My Frontera was named Wurzel by my wife for its rustic looks (possibly rusty looks too) and my current Passat has been awarded Basil. Because it was faulty for a while.

If you’re female then fill yer boots.

Meet Larry the Landrover

He growls at Nissan X-Trails

acceptable if you’re a car designer, embarrassing if you’re not.

In my humble, worthless opinion.

Her old (utter $h1tbox Rover 216 shocking excuse for a) car – Alfie
Her current car – Heathcliffe

Both based on the numberplates.

The van is called Clive, on account of the numberplate (CV), the fact it’s a T5, and that it came from Sinclair Van Centre

Not wife but at work we have:
Dora (Ford Explorer) Brad (Snatch Landrover)
Walter (as in Mitty, WMIK Landrover which was built on a civvy chassis so not a ‘real’ WMIK.)
My T5 has been named in rather poor taste ‘The Miley Cyrus tour bus’ after local reports of someone trying to get kids into a van which matched the description of mine…..

I had a Triumph Herald that my then girlfriend kept calling Harold.

I think this was a genuine error rather than girly anthropomorphism of the car. On the plus side she was fit.

Pook – Member
acceptable if you’re a car designer, embarrassing if you’re not.

People who name cars should be ****

My old works old berlingo was known as the silver bullet

We were given a Daewoo Nexia that I called Shedric.
It LOOKED like a Shedric to be fair.

God, I miss that car.

Best car name is Fraud Siesta, in the Crow Road by Iain Banks.
Genius.

People who name cars should be ****

If it winds you up that much, I strongly suggest calling yours something friendly like “Charlie” – it might cheer you up. Miseryguts!

RJ for the van
Whistle for the Prius
5 for the Orange Audi ( I kid you not )

My car is named Bernard (BMW) and her car is called Wally (Volkswagen Golf)! But we have names for everything (plants, household appliances…… the list goes on and on and on!!!) 😀

But we have names for everything (plants

We have a bromeliad called Brian

My old Renault 4 van was called “The Vanimal”

”Sophia” the sexy Italian

My VW Caddy purchased specifically to aid cycle transportation is called Ludwig van Bikewaggon. I little tenuous I admit but it was the best I could come up with.

I don’t like naming things as then you get attached to them and sad when they stop working.
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However, in order to tell what you are refering to names just deveop sometimes. I’ve had:
The Tardia (Proton Persona, surprisingly large boot)
The Rustbucket (Peugeot 306)
The Repmobile (Mondeo, which the other half tried to call Percy)
The Toyota (Corrolla)
The Hyundai (Trajet)
The Van (Transit)

We had a red 205 called, er, Cherry.

Heh. Mine are all “Widowmakers”. Currently on “Widowmaker III”. The wife hates them all as a result.

My sister borrowed my mums Honda Jazz and it was renamed ‘ve-jazzle’
A mate of mine, mid 40’s ex army built like a tank macho kind of bloke names all his cars, things like billy, Mikey, tommy he gets proper attached to them too and talks about them like they are a pet. Very odd considering his personality in general.

One is the dog-bus, the other is the bike-bus.

People who name cars should be ****

I feel sorry for folk who have to get through the day being so miserable. Life must be one constant trudge.

The wife hates them all as a result[b]wishes they’d all just get on with it[/b]

🙂

our Audi A6 was called Beyonce because it had a big curvy bootee like the singer, Honda Civic called Pikachu. the current Nissan Almera hasnt been named yet even though we’ve had it for nearly 3 years as we spend most of our time swearing at it instead!!

Naming a car is not good.

Bang on… It’s AWESOME!

How about Aaron for you A4?

Currently with Gary the Golf.

Along a similar vein, does anyone else announce loudly “CAR TWIN” when they see an exact same model car when out driving?

RM.