Did you name your car?

JamesWWIII · 06-26-2018, 08:37 PM

Apologies if there’s already a thread for this, but I scrolled back 20 pages and saw nothing, and search was unhelpful.

My new F32 is Katarina. She’s German, beautiful and athletic, so that’s the first thing that popped in my head.

ShopVac · 06-26-2018, 08:38 PM

Audi drivers don't name their cars.

Turkish Pickle · 06-26-2018, 08:46 PM

My Lincoln is Christine. Something about that name, I always felt like a Christine is that elegant girl who's decently pretty as well. Kinda the woman you'd get married with.

The BMW back home is named... the lease. I can't connect with that car maybe because I drive it 4 months a year tops and in my opinion there's nothing special so I just never thought of coming up with a name for it, it's just a vehicle. Sad and ironic to many to hear that a BMW is the unnamed one but if your girl was on 6000mi away and you could see her only 4 months in a year, how long would it be before you crack?

IllSic_Design · 06-26-2018, 08:53 PM

My car's name is Becky. Just your average, basic white girl lol

JamesWWIII · 06-26-2018, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bayerische Motoren Werke

My Lincoln is Christine. Something about that name

My very first car, a red Chevy Beretta GT was Christine.

I was a big Steven King fan and even though not a possessed Plymouth Fury, she was red, so there you have it.

Turkish Pickle · 06-26-2018, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesWWIII

My very first car, a red Chevy Beretta GT was Christine.

I was a big Steven King fan and even though not a possessed Plymouth Fury, she was red, so there you have it.

I'm not a Steven King fan necessarily but odd coincidence that both our first cars were Christine!

Tuxedo · 06-26-2018, 09:20 PM

I name my convertibles after Greek Goddesses, previous 1'r I named Hebe

current vert is Leto

tuco44 · 06-26-2018, 09:40 PM

No...

Nuckle · 06-26-2018, 10:08 PM

No

MKSixer · 06-26-2018, 10:11 PM

M6 - The Speed Wagon (Named by a stranger.)
i8 - The Batmobile (General consensus, friend and stranger alike.)
328d - Wanda (My daughter named it.)

Nothing else is named.

Dang3r · 06-27-2018, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ShopVac

Audi drivers don't name their cars.

I never understand why some ppl consider their cars as female and give them names and make a personality of it...IT.

DerEisbaer · 06-27-2018, 03:26 AM

My E39 got named by my Grandpa, from whom I inherited the car. "Hänsje" he always called it, and I for sure continued doing the same. It's a minimization of the German name Hans, nobody in our family knows, why he had chosen this particular one.

JamesWWIII · 06-27-2018, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Dang3r

I never understand why some ppl consider their cars as female and give them names and make a personality of it...IT.

Why are ships called "she" whether their names are female or not?

It's just a tradition.

yco · 06-27-2018, 07:44 AM

whale..

Dang3r · 06-27-2018, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesWWIII

Why are ships called "she" whether their names are female or not?

It's just a tradition.

You'll find it triple at aircrafts: The aircraft (it), the Airbus A350 (she), the Jet (he).

F30lolz · 06-27-2018, 08:32 AM

The 335i is named ‘Steve’ after a friend of mine who died on a motorcycle accident on 10/10/10. Had on full gear, coming around a turn and hit a deer in Upstate NY and died from blunt force trauma. At the time he had a then new e92 M3 but before had a 335i.

I miss that guy so much. RIP.

TheWatchGuy · 06-27-2018, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ShopVac

Audi drivers don't name their cars.

cause they break too often to get attached to.

Germanauto · 06-27-2018, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShopVac

Audi drivers don't name their cars.

Audi makes soul-less cars with zero personality so I'm not surprised.

Captain Blood · 06-27-2018, 09:46 AM

Current car: Silver Bullet

past cars:
silver lemon (70's ford product), the vaccum (it sucked up the road in front of me), the vroom vroom (G35 sedan), named by my kids.

Never_Enough · 06-27-2018, 09:59 AM

I don't normally name my cars unless I come up with something funny. I now call the Miata the Homo Hooptie & the Hellcat Satan's Chariot 2.0 (My C6Z was the original Satan's Chariot).

CTinline-six · 06-27-2018, 10:07 AM

My alpine white 2009 is named "moby dick" for various reasons.

smrtypants44 · 06-27-2018, 11:08 AM

My cars named Ed after a character from my favorite Anime- Cowboy Bebop.

Ed's computer's name is Tomato, and my interior is red so it seemed fitting.

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Turkish Pickle Banned 3084 Rep 381 Posts Drives: '21 330i xDrive Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Chicago, IL iTrader: (0) Garage List 2021 BMW 330i xDrive [10.00]	My Lincoln is Christine. Something about that name, I always felt like a Christine is that elegant girl who's decently pretty as well. Kinda the woman you'd get married with. The BMW back home is named... the lease. I can't connect with that car maybe because I drive it 4 months a year tops and in my opinion there's nothing special so I just never thought of coming up with a name for it, it's just a vehicle. Sad and ironic to many to hear that a BMW is the unnamed one but if your girl was on 6000mi away and you could see her only 4 months in a year, how long would it be before you crack?
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