Does a car deserve a name? And if so, should it be male, or female? And, come to think of it… do people who name their cars actually take better care of them? Those were the profound questions we contemplated this week on Car Talk – all thanks to Robert in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, who found out…

Only some cars require names. We had a 1965 Ford F100 flatbed, painted white and mostly Bondo, that we called Moby Dick. Our daughter drives a 1984 Volve 240 wagon with a deer-skull wired to the grill, and its name is Skeletor. None of our other cars seemed to need a name, though.

I think that cars are such an intricate part of our daily lives that we develop attachments to them. I know I spend so much of my life in the car, that a lot of time, the name comes from an experience we have together. Growing up, my mom and I’s car was named Leslie (96 Nissan Maxima). Mom still …

I’m a female (obviously) and have named two of my cars: the first, a Neon, Ignignokt (after the ATHF character) and the second, an Altima, Naobi. I loved my second car dearly, but she was killed in an accident (not my fault!) only a month after her purchase. Since then, I haven’t named my Subaru wag…

I agree that cars and trucks are simple, soulless, utilitarian machines that deserve no name. I have owned three trucks and have not named any of them. However, my 1946 Farmall A tractor is named Henrietta, which is a completely different situation, she actually does have a soul.

I got my wife a 2002 Mustang for her 44th birthday last year. Sandy, my wife named her bright white baby, “Eleanor”. The name Eleanor of course comes from Nicholas Cage?s movie, ?Gone In 60 Seconds?, where the car that was always ?elusive? was a Mustang (I think a ?67) that he called ?Eleanor?. My …

SHOULD YOU? Who cares? Will you? probably. If you’re a girl. I’ve never “named” one, but I’ve called a few a few things. My current vehicle, a '92 Ford TempoPinto, and most commonly referred to as the Rattmobile. My last one, a baby pick-up (GMC S-15) was the Mudd Dukk. But I’ve never “named…

I let my 2 year old name the minivan, Rocket, after the “little einsteins” rocket ship, it’s now easier to get her to go places in “Rocket”. My wife named her subaru, Ruby, after the color of paint, and most of my family has named a car or two. Not every car should have a name, if the vehicle deserv…

Cars are the closest thing to a living being created by man. Cars are born, breath, consume, dispose and die. By naming a vehicle you’re personifying nothing but metal and with that name the car is actually given some bit of a soul. My first car was a '91 brown, wood paneling, dodge grand caravan…

I have always named my cars because they seem to have personalities. There was “Greenie” the Willies sedan whose battery exploded one hot day on the Mojave desert due to internal and ambient heat (I had neglected to make sure there was battery fluid; was able to smoosh the pieces together and get ho…

Should You Name Your Car?

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Spankins September 1, 2007, 3:09pm 9

Yea, I have names for cars of mine, but there not Male or Female, they are little thinks about the car that i pick out to call them. I have a Audi A4 and call it Quattro, i also have a 87 VW GTI that is baby blue with sparkles (i paid $200) i call Bubbles. My friend has an 81 Hoodride Jetta Diesal that we call Rusty. The names turn into inside Jokes.

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