Naming your car.

[Ted Hoppe]

Mine will be called Tucco. Car currently in concept design.

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Considering doing a wrap or paint with video jib option.

Tuco. Tucito.

[L.W. Baxter]

one c in tuco.

stencil should be man in bathtub with revolver.

[Beowolf]

Rhonda.

Rhonda the Honda.

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[Joe (SoCal)]

TWISLER Tesla

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[Katherine]

Well, you just gave away it’s location.

THEY’RE JUST F****** CARS ALREADY! Not even particularly good ones, just move on already. Sheesh.

TWISLER Tesla

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[skuthorp]

My MGTC's name was an expletive concerning SU's.
The 29 Dodge was Tess(from previous owner)
The Landy had several names over the years but since then no.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Well, you just gave away it’s location.

THEY’RE JUST F****** CARS ALREADY! Not even particularly good ones, just move on already. Sheesh.

I love that it gets under peoples skin - Ted asked if anyone named there car we did, nothing more

[ron ll]

No, but named the nav voice Sally Ride.

[skuthorp]

Oh the Landy had personality, if you didn't treat her right she wouldn't start. Temperemental as hell, but reliable if you treated her right. A fortnight burried in a snow drift and she started first time, every time.
Built in 1952, she's still going under another owner.

[Garret]

Only ever named one car/truck (& I've owned over 100). I had a 1938 Chevy 1 1/2 ton that, when I first saw it for sale, I opened the door, hopped in & said "Hi George". No idea why - it just popped out.

[Jimmy W]

Toyota already named my truck Tacoma.

[AnalogKid]

I didn't name it, my son did (bought for him to learn to drive in) and it sort of stuck.

Eugine the Syrian Refugee (it's a Daihatsu Sirion).

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ETA - the only car of mine that's had a name of any sort.

[robm]

My first Subaru Loyale I called "my Valiant Beastie" (reference to Chrysler products not intended). The later ones did not get referred to with as much appreciation.

I forget what I called my Datsun 510s, but they too were remarkably reliable, for ancient, rusted-out, neglected pieces of near-junk. The only time I worried about chucking them into a corner at way-too-much speed was when the door locks lost their reliability, so we would come out of the corner with a door flapping open, and me trying to dive across the car to pull it closed as I completed the exit.

[Yeadon]

one c in tuco.

stencil should be man in bathtub with revolver.

This is correct.

[Breakaway]

Ted, name the car Bill Carson instead. And, add some trumpets to the paint job.

If you are going to be enigmatic, man, BE enigmatic!

Kevin

[BrianW]

So 'God dammit not again!' and 'Fuck Me!'? are taken?

[Joe (SoCal)]

Bdub edit - as much as you've turned into a drive by right wing poster, you are still my friend and I would hate to see you go to bandcamp

[leikec]

The only car I’ve ever named is my 1962 Corvair, which I called “The Hanger Queen” because she always needed something before I could drive her…

Jeff C

[Hugh MacD]

The only appropriately named car was the Landie in the film, "The Gods Must Be Crazy"...called "The AntiChrist".

[ShorelineJohn]

I just can't name a car, I have had several car of the same type and sometimes even the same color and at the same time. Had 7 Corvairs,( I identified them by year and color) 3 full size ford station wagons, '68 & 69 country Squires, 70 LTD and 3 Dodge Magnums, 2 '05 R/T 1 '06 SRT/8 all black with a sun roof and 54 others. I just can't seriously give them names.
When something goes wrong I just call them my POS.

[WX]

I once had a Morris 1000 van called Wilfred's White Lightning Express.
Later on I had a 1964 VW Kombi called Maxwell's Magic Mushroom Microbus.
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[MushCreek]

I name my interesting cars, boats, etc. My old trucks are always called 'Bubba'. My '65 Ford tractor is called 'Sven'. A vehicle has to have personality to be named. Our Toyota RAV4 is a soulless-but-practical transportation appliance, so no name. My '92 Miata is called Buttercup, for obvious reasons:

[birlinn]

Celeste, because she is that shade of bleu.

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[Todd D]

I call mine "the truck" and my wife's is "the subaru".

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I haven’t named a car or a motorcycle, but my father had one car that got a name.

This isn’t Esmeralda; this is her twin:

The connection with Victor Hugo’s gypsy dancer in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is not obvious, beyond the model name (“Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire”) but it seems my father once confessed to liking the book as a boy, and my mother, observing that he spent more time on that car than he did on her, (the car arrived as a wreck - did you know that a six cylinder engine can run on three?) duly named the car after the heroine!

[Rich Jones]

Back in the mid-70's, my brother had a big old Ford that he named "Bertha".
That got expanded to "Bertha G. (gas) Hogg".

[icyb]

I remember my grandfather had three cars called them all Betsy.

[willin woodworks]

I never named one but I bought an old GMC pickup from a guy and he was telling me about its eccentricities; "when you close the drivers door you gotta commit..."
Just before I pulled out of his driveway he walked over and said very seriously "She dont like country music". Duly noted.

[artif]

Ran out of names (expletives) for the Land rover, ended up with just a sigh of disappointment every time I looked at it

[Figment]

Littlegirl named the ghia "Woodstock"



The volvo is White Lightnin'

[Henning 4148]

Just trying to stay on top of things - it is a Fiat 500 now as camera car? Not a Porsche or ???

[john welsford]

I have an Isuzu light truck based RV, I tell people that if you ask her what her name is, she'll tell you, "I Suzi".

John Welsford

[Figment]

MIL had a Rav4 L model named RAVAL

[Yeadon]

I can't fathom naming a car. They need to know their place. They're just cars. It's like telling Alexa "Thank you." Eff that AI machine. It can suffer in silence. And if I did name a car I'd never tell anyone. I'd want the car to only answer to me. It's why I don't paint names on my boats. You wouldn't want someone calling your boat to come and play when you're trying to use it. Too dangerous.

[Torna]

Yes, to cars (and boats) needing to earn their names. I've long called my outback with a cvt: Lurch.
Then my wife began calling her sporty little imprezza: Wednesday.

-Leif