Ask Lemmy

Yes, usually after the first letter of the rego plate. My current car, a 2020 Veloster is called Siggy.

1994 Civic - Jasmine, named for the taco bell employee that congratulated me immediately after buying it.

2003 Sebring - was just the garbage piece of shit because it was a garbage piece of shit

2014 Elantra - Diane, Diane Young played on FM radio during the test drive.

2010 Civic - just bought it after my previous car was totaled in a rear ending >:I bought it with the trash insurance payout and it's a lemon don't know if it will last long enough to get a name.

My current car is named the Goose, I had never named one before. No particular reason, but I got goose license plate holders and a goose with a knife sticker on the side of the mirror to embellish the ensemble. Still need a good goose to put in the back

1970 Chevrolet Impala: Liberty (I bought it from a guy in Liberty, KY).

1997 Nissan 200SX SE-R: Dot (It was Pacific Blue)

2003 Acura TL: Sally (Generic name for a generic car)

2014 Camry LE: Pearl (It was Cosmic Mica Gray which gave the car a pearlescent sheen).

I currently have a 2019 Camry Hybrid XLE, but have yet to name it. I'm leaning toward "Betty", because the car has so many warnings, alarms, and notifications that I feel like I'm being bitched at when I drive it.

I have owned several cars over the years that I never named. My absolute favorite car I've ever owned was a 1985 Corolla GT-S that I raced in Pro Solo for a few years and it never received a name. The next car I owned was a 1992 Sentra SE-R and it never got a name either. Also had a 1969 Chevelle that I drag raced in my teen years, but no name there.

The Prius (he/him)

I don't own a car, but my bicycle is named Aneth. It's French for "dill", pronounced the same as the name "Annette".

I like dill and "Aneth la bicyclette" rhymes.

Meet: Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo (from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends).

I even have Bloo stickers.

I just use the name they were given at the factory to avoid confusing them.

Blue 2025 Subaru Forester = Beast

White 2015 Hyundai Sonata = Stormtrooper (also has a stormtrooper ornament hanging from the rear view mirror)

James. No particular reason.

My other cars never had names, but I love this one to pieces and it goes like the clappers.

I had a murdered G37s named Stella. Was a fun time in life. Happy not to have a car at all now.

TIL: people name their cars. Honest question, unless you have several identical cars, why?

My first car was a white 2013 Honda Fit named Scott. He was previously owned by the proprietor of a defunct kickboxing gym in my area, and acted like it. That car had chops, and legs for days. Manual 5-speed, not the sport model but still had surprisingly good clearance and a shocking ability to climb up logging roads well further than most SUV’s dared or bothered to go. Loved that guy, but he sadly met his end late last year in an altercation with a Dodge Ram. A rather one-sided argument, and a total write off.

After that I fell into a situationship with Joe. Joe was/is a 2015 manual 6 speed Chevy Trax with a bad attitude, a lean to the right, misfiring cylinders, and a steering wheel that shakes at highway speeds. I don’t like Joe, and I strongly suspect Joe doesn’t like me, so I traded him in before he had a chance to fulfill his yearning to explore the ditch.

Nowadays I’m quite happily involved with Geoff - a 2019 Toyota Corolla hatchback. Again, not the sport model, but a 6-speed manual nonetheless and a truly fun ride, with significantly better acceleration that either of my previous two vehicles. We’ve agreed that how to spell his name is for him to know, and for me to speculate. Jeff is confident, self-assured, kind & forgiving, overall a balanced and well-adjusted partner - kind of hard to get used to, to be honest.

No real naming scheme, mostly just stupid names because they're funny, though a couple names have been roughly related to the car to which they belonged.

• Pobjoy
• Probably Jessie (yes, "probably" is part of the name)
• Probably Jenny
• My Boy Blue
• Winona
• Jules

I kinda wanna name my car, but nothing has inspired yet.

We have a Toyota we call Plavalaguna because of the paint color, and a Volvo we call Portia because we thought it was funny.

My wife named her first SUV - a dinky Equinox - “pebbles”, purely because it was a light stone grey.

Her next SUV - a more beefy 4Runner that can actually hold the Gunner dog crate comfortably - is “snowflake”, purely because it was a pristine snow white.

I think I’m seeing a pattern here with my wife.

My ebike is Gusteau (Gusto), or Gus.

frog car!!

it's the green one in the back

"car"

which inevitably becomes "piece of shit"

I didn't name all of them, but here are the ones:

• My small everyday car: Titine (see other comment about that)
• My camper van: Léon (In french "Léon le fourgon")
• My '78 spitfire: Rosie

My cars are usually named after old women, because I subconsciously relate older women with comfort and kindness. Gertie, and Mathilde.

I don't but I have a dear friend who named his cars with things like "Captain stingray" for a Blue chevrolet he had, "Annoyed mother" for his mom's van, "Stinky Pete" for his dad's Cadillac (he was a heavy smoker) He named my first car "lil' bit" since it was an old vw bug.

Now he drives an electric Mustang called "The beast". Oh! He also owns a boat now named "Pretty Betty"

My first car, my lovely Mazda 2. It was tiny but perfect for me. My friends called it a jellybean and that stuck until Bean just started being used. I loved that Bean so much.

But I just got a new car and a friend of mine said it looks like a shoe. So now I have Shoe! Which I think is funny

My 1992 Dodge Spirit with the 3L V6 was called "The Behemoth". It got it's name partially from the license plate starting with BEHE, and partially from the fact that car was a tank. It got me through a lot of driving through all kinds of weather conditions, including driving through over a metre of snow, through a raging blizzard. I would have kept driving that car for years if the brine solution the used on the road one winter didn't eat all the metal, plastic, and rubber, on the bottom of the car.

It was replaced by my 2015 Chrysler 200 3.6L V6 named Barbra (during the day), and Oracle (by night). Barbra//Oracle got their name from being much more modern and technologically integrated, and surprising people with it's capability.

I didn't have enough time with my first car to give it a name other than "the '95".

xev yoyo in lime green.

I call her tinkerbell

Normally no. However, I do own a 1968 Chrysler station wagon that I've taken to calling "the Duchess of Rustess". No, it doesn't even rhyme, but it does makes me smile.

My first car was named Sora Aoi which means sky blue. Don’t mind that it’s also the name of a popular Japanese porn star.

I also had a white Kia Soul that looked like a stormtrooper helmet so I was trying to pick a good reference name, but couldn’t decide on one.

My subaru is called “Subarashii”, because it’s excellent.

97 v8 ford explorer, has over 300000 miles on it still runs great, replaced full exhaust and both manifolds that cracked, ac unit broke like a decade ago, frame is severely rusted but ive been spraying it with fluid film with a paint sprayer and that halted the rust also like a decade ago. Has a permanent coolant leak. Said I was gonna drive it till it died.

Even though it should've broken down it just keeps running

I call him Frank Gallagher

Back in the day a friend of mine had a blue shit box I don't even remember the make or model of now. Let's call it a vauxhall (Opel/Buick in the rest of the world) Cavalier with constant issues. It was close to Tardis Blue, and due to its problems and unreliable nature, and it being a different time where insensitive names were the norm, he called it the re-tardis. Not proud, but it is a memory.

I have had two Sonatas, despite being musically inclined I have never called them a musically inspired name. The first one was lied to me by the stealership (used inventory from trade in, off-brand) that it was a limited edition, an L.E; so we called her Ellie.

Volvo (V60CC) -> Swedish -> Viking

So it is called "Ragnar"

I've named all but one of my cars.

Spunky - 1986 Mazda RX-7 (Untitled) - 1997 VW Jetta The Dirty Hooker - 2001 Ford Escort ZX2 Heidi - 1998 BMW M3 Yuki - 2004 Subaru Impreza Outback

I have Heidi and Yuki currently. 🤷‍♂️