Does your car have a name?

Same as my 308 QV, has been since the day I got her. Named after that other beautiful Italian redhead, Sophia Loren.

Also my wife's '67 Jaguar = Millie. (Her choice, not mine).

 

angelina.... named after an other stunner.........

 

308GT4: Luigi, which in itself is a funny name, since she is a lady, and Luigi is a bloke's name.

BMW 330D: Heinrich, a very German name for an oh so German car

My little homebuilt aircraft (a Jodel): Josephine

Josephine actually is alive. We talk, and she's saved my bacon on a number of occasions. Once by throwing tiny little freak malfunctions at me during my pre-flight checks until I finally understood what she was trying to tell me - she didn't want me to fly. Interestingly, by the time I would have been due for landing, a non-forecasted weather change would have given me so much crosswind that I would likely not have been able to land safely...

Luigi still is just a car, I am afraid. We will need to get used to each other a bit more before we actually start talking. We DO already have a lot of fun together though....



Hans

 

I call my 308 "Il Bella"

 

Current Stable:

1975 308/GT4 - Fernando
1991 BMW 850i - Boris II
1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Jamal

Previous:
1983 BMW 630i - Sven
1976 BMW 530i - Boris
1963 Dodge Station Wagon - Bucephelis
1967 Chevy Station Wagon - Ruby (Pronounced Rubah)
1970 Fiat 124 Coupe - Silver Bullet
1960 SEAT600 - Bartolo
1957 Chevy - Thanatopsis

There are politically incorrect reasons for each of those names, which are better left unexplained - use your imagination.

 

Mordecai

 

Anybody call their car "My B*tch?

 

Well I might be close... I call my 308 "Benito". It developed that nickname while I was working on it. But "My Ferrari" is another great nickname! It just sounds so good rolling off the tongue.....

 

Ferrari 308 gt4 - Luigi

Blue Porsche 911 - Sally

Red Mazda Miata - Mumbo

BMW X5 - Cruella (the car has left my family stranded so many times we hardly ever use it. Last time was a month ago it broke down on the interstate while we were all in it in the passing lane going 80 the car decided to complelely shut down) Ended up being a combination of the wiring harness and alternator. POS!

 

My (non brand-related) garage guy (driving a BMW himself), uses to compare current BMW's to old Alfa Romeo's as far as reliability goes.

I'm afraid I have to agree with him. I've got far more issues with my BMW 330 than with the Dino. Electrical crap, mostly. The current trick is that my windshield wipers break down once in a while, only to come back on after 10 minutes or so. Plus the headlights quit from time to time (one at a time, thank god). It is still leaking when it rains and the check oil idiot light comes on every time, despite plenty of oil.

Total crap....

but this is all off-topic.

Funny that your -year old daugther named your GT4 the same as I did mine...

 

Elizabeth

 

About 30 years ago, just after I got married, my wife was driving one of restored Studebakers. It was painted a charcoal gray and the power steering wasn't working, she called it Sherman.....after the famous TANK

 

+1

 

I named my old company car (a Taurus) = "The CLITAURUS"

Believe it or not, chicks dug the Clitaurus...

 

Was she tempermental?

 

just about once a month or so

 

I suppose a car like pulls towards shopping malls. takes up two parking places and dosen't leave until the backseat and trunk are full

 

My 308 is Bruno

 

As mentioned earlier mine is Roxanne.
Go see The Police lyrics for explanations...

 

Broken Down Piece Of Stuff GT4 Sitting In The Driveway?


In my case, I just call it The F-Car, or sometimes a V8 Fiat

 

Boats have female names, so I gave my car a male name: "Tazio" as in Tazio Nuvolari, one of the great early Ferrari racing drivers.

 

gee... I feel like a copycat after reading Sophia two other times.... but if the name fits....

 

I call my 75 308 GT4 "Tweety" on account she is yellow.
Everybody likes Tweety.

 

I call it "my little car"

My wife calls it "the big, dark, sucking black hole of money and dreams"... she actually makes a good point there...