Not the most exciting, but my Honda Fit's name is Finley 2.0 because the first Finley the Honda Fit got punted into a tree.
I got it when I was in college with some 27,000 miles, and now it has over 90,000.
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Need an excuse to celebrate your car? Today, October 2, is “National Name Your Car Day” according to the National Day Calendar.
Supposedly, the holiday was created in 1990 by St. Louis TV reporter John Pertzborn to honor his 1954 Buick named "Elvis." (It earned its nickname from how it “shakes, rattles and rolls.”)
The National Day Calendar says that the best way to observe the holiday is to do the following:
So, what better place to share your car and its name than right here on the GRM forum?
Not the most exciting, but my Honda Fit's name is Finley 2.0 because the first Finley the Honda Fit got punted into a tree.
I got it when I was in college with some 27,000 miles, and now it has over 90,000.
I've always named my cars
Humphrey the '89 Caprice was named atleast 2 owners ago and we all just kept the name.
Golfball the hail damaged white Miata has a very obvious name.
The Civic that ended up being my problem was named JD after JD McDuffie and his record for most starts with no win. Messing with the car more I decided its full name is actually JD McE36 M3Show.
This is Rowdy the Roadster. Earned his name on my first drive.
Our first Chevy Bolt my wife named Harry, after the bolt on Harry Potter's forehead (and the fact that she had already named our previous Volt, Lord Voltemort). The new one is Harry II, Electric Boogaloo.
And the Suburban tow vehicle is JB... 'cause it's a 'burban. It followed up our previous tow rig, Clifford, the Big Red Truck (a '94 Chevy extended cab dually).
I have a commitment to name any Subaru I own "Bernadette Subaru" unless I should at some point own 2 Subarus at one time. My new BRZ inherited the moniker. I want to get some badging letters in the Subaru font to make it all nice and official.
Our Pacifica has been dubbed "The Big Blue Bus."
Some cars, though, don't seem to earn a nickname. The ATS was just "the ATS".
Buddha Farts.
My truck has a Buddha shift knob and no muffler(4cyl) so its fart-can-esqe
They don't all get names but some of them do.
Our E150 conversion van was the Great White Beast.
SanFord was named by a toll booth operator near Chicago
The 1996 Tiffin was the Blunder Bus.
The new motorhome is the EndOver.
In order of when it all started:
'86 Honda Civic 1500S: The Heinous Honda
'95 Nissan Sentra: The Sinister Sentra
'06 UBILT Super 7: The Lethal Locost
'94 Nissan Hardbody: The Hideous Hardbody
'86 V8 Pontiac Firefly (Chevy Sprint): The Fiendish Firefly
'77 Chevy Silverado: The Crusty Chevy
'10 Hyundai Accent: The Angry Accent
'61 Chevy Apache: not touching that one
The Datsun is known as The Pokey.
Black Dodge
Black Porsche
White VW
Gunmetal VW
Baby E36 M3 Brown VW
Blue Porsche
Gold Taco
Maroon Opel
Only caveat is the black porsche is also the leper pariah.
I've never named any of my cars, I guess that makes me the outlier here?
The only car we've ever had that we didn't call by whatever the manufacturer called it is the BRZ we bought recently. My wife calls it the Burrz. We also once owned a 1980 Rabbit diesel that we called the Rabbit, but it always seemed to have had one or more colorful adjectives attached, too.
I don't name my cars, but I call my trailer The Enabler.
There it sits... always ready to help me make bad decisions.
Millennium Falcon: She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
I had never named a car until my 4th year with the XJ. I had gone to a halloween party as Mr Meeseeks and I didn't throw away the mask, so I wedged it into the back window behind the spare tire. I realized that many Meeseeks quotes kinda cross over with Cherokees. I began referring to him as Mr MeeJeeps and I even got the personalized plate.
"Existance is pain when you're a MeeJeeps"
"I'm a Mr MeeJeeps! I have to fulfill my purpose so I can go away!"
“MeeJeeps aren’t meant to live this long. Things are getting weird.”
I generally don't name cars, the only two exceptions were our green Fiat 500 which was named Joy and my current Jeep Renegade named Gary.
I named my corolla Pluto, because she's too small to be a planet and too slow to be a race car. Lol!
z31maniac said:I've never named any of my cars, I guess that makes me the outlier here?
No, me too. I do tend to anthropomorphize them but I've never given them names.
We were talking how even 5 year old trucks around here rot. A 20 year old pickup is just completely rotten. My truck came from Yellowstone. Its rust free. Never seen salt. So of course I ironically name the F150 "Fester."
My wife's black on black on black VW Golf is named Vader
My red zx2 is called Zephyr
My k1500 is Castile
My wife's incredibly slow 97 explorer is called Fiona because she thinks it sounds grandmotherly
My brown Caprice is called Charlie
The Rampage is named Ronni because it's a high maintenance 80s chick sounding name that may or may not shank you
Does "You Piece of E36 M3" count?
z31maniac said:I've never named any of my cars, I guess that makes me the outlier here?
I suspect we are really the silent majority.
ddavidv said:z31maniac said:I've never named any of my cars, I guess that makes me the outlier here?
I suspect we are really the silent majority.
Humans have been naming their vehicles since they started with boats a couple thousand years ago.
And trucks: https://logitydispatch.com/blog/the-best-names-for-trucks-selecting-the-perfect-option-for-your-vehicle/
when it was nice it was called snow white, it doesn't really have a name anymore other than "the rally car"
My Mustangs name is "Mistress". My wife named it.
All of them get names.
Never understood why people give names to inanimate objects that can't come when they are called.
In reply to wspohn :
The animated objects that I have named don't come when I call them either.
1986 VW GTi 8v became Elsie. Which came about from me calling the little car LC.
1997 VW Jetta became know as PJ.
1991 F250 became know as Leviathan because big.
1998 Senta is called Sentra with a weird accent.
2007 Accord is just the Honda. I should call it Works, because Honda.
1995 Miata, which maybe will become M.
wspohn said:Never understood why people give names to inanimate objects that can't come when they are called.
As I posted on the last page, people have been naming vehicles since they invented boats...
It's a very human thing to do. One might more wonder why some people don't? Lack of imagination? 
2013 FR-S is called "Cruella" because it's a white car with track rubber splotches all over it making it look like a Dalmatian
Most of my A1 chassis VWs have had names starting with:
Clyde
Bionic Clyde
Millenium Clyde
Obi-Clyde-Kenobi
Darth Clyde
RaceClyde
The 92 Safari with the SBC is Jean Clyde Damn Van
The 95 Astro is Vando Calrissian
The 13 Red Mazda 2 is called Wedge
The wife's Smart was Maxwell (license plate wasn't available so that was Agent 99)
My Alfa Spider Veloce was Donatella
The 75 Vette is Sasha
The 87 Scirocco 16v 2.0 still needs a name as does the 77 Challenge Vette.
92 2.016v Passat was Moby
02 1.8t Jetta Wagon was Moby II
Meet HPV, my 2019 STI. Named HPV because it's just another common STI that so many people have.
I had a 91 SE-R, black, named Bob. I had to.
Now it's a 91 Miata in blue that's the Smurf car, and the '19 WRX, in red: Rash.
I have never seen the point of pretending that a car is an animate object like a dog and giving them names, so I treat the day with complete indifference with maybe a bit of eye rolling. But there are even sillier practices out there, like naming your body parts....
wspohn said:I have never seen the point of pretending that a car is an animate object like a dog and giving them names, so I treat the day with complete indifference with maybe a bit of eye rolling. But there are even sillier practices out there, like naming your body parts....
Oh jeez, what did you just do? Don't go there. Please don't go there. 
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