# Car Names! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893 "2010-12-19T04:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShiftKicker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shiftkicker/32/2161_2.png) [@ShiftKicker](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ShiftKicker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/1 "2010-12-19T04:08:42Z")
I like to think of names for cars that are owned by people I know. For example, my dad had a minivan which I named Cara. I’d like the other posters to send in their car names here! Shiftkicker ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/2 "2010-12-19T04:28:02Z")
Pontiac Nickname: Bonneville CSA ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/3 "2010-12-19T05:10:09Z")
Try finding the search function because we did this to death and there are lots of good names in that list. ---
**Author:** ![ShiftKicker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shiftkicker/32/2161_2.png) [@ShiftKicker](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ShiftKicker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/4 "2010-12-19T15:17:09Z")
Post idea taken, huh? ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/5 "2010-12-20T18:29:50Z")
I know; I never expected to be so successful. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deleted\_User1111116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/ac91a4/32.png) [@\_Deleted\_User1111116](https://community.cartalk.com/u/_Deleted_User1111116)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/6 "2010-12-20T18:32:17Z")
VW Rabbit…The ol Gray Ghost ---
**Author:** ![AL5000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@AL5000](https://community.cartalk.com/u/AL5000)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/7 "2010-12-20T19:18:10Z")
I’ve got a name for people who give their cars names. I also have a name for others who humor the owner adn also refer to the other person’s car by the same name. I’d love to share the names, but my post would be deleted if I did. ---
**Author:** ![steve63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@steve63](https://community.cartalk.com/u/steve63)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/8 "2010-12-20T23:58:57Z")
We call our Chrysler minivan “the minivan”, we call our Mercedes sedan “the Mercedes” and we call our Mercedes convertible “the convertible”. Even our 6 year old gets into the act. ---
**Author:** ![Carveaholic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Carveaholic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Carveaholic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/9 "2010-12-21T02:06:57Z")
The best one I vever heard was for an older purple Ford Explorer… The owner affectionately referred to it as Dora The Ford Explorer ---
**Author:** ![waterboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waterboy/32/764_2.png) [@waterboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/waterboy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/10 "2010-12-21T02:19:25Z")
Sometimes it is not so bad to revisit an earlier discussion, I mean I would give a 7 out of 10 probability what someone has posted before will be posted again. And I having to look at my name tag to see who I am, do not like looking through 4 pages of posts just to see if I have replied to the question already, knowing nobody is going to read all the responses in the first 3 pages anyway. So my favorite is when a car does not start they turn into Cmon, go. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deleted\_User1111116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/ac91a4/32.png) [@\_Deleted\_User1111116](https://community.cartalk.com/u/_Deleted_User1111116)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/11 "2010-12-21T02:22:10Z")
Merry Christmas ---
**Author:** ![ShiftKicker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shiftkicker/32/2161_2.png) [@ShiftKicker](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ShiftKicker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/12 "2010-12-21T02:54:33Z")
Imaginative. ---
**Author:** ![ShiftKicker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shiftkicker/32/2161_2.png) [@ShiftKicker](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ShiftKicker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/13 "2010-12-21T02:56:27Z")
Wait-----YOU took it??? ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/14 "2010-12-21T04:39:25Z")
The best name was for the factory where Toyotas and GM cars were built. NUMMI. I loved that one. Bicycle helmets were made to ANSI standards… ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/15 "2010-12-21T05:58:40Z")
I can’t repeat some of the names I’ve spontaneously called some of my cars I was working on. It sure as heck wasn’t, “Come on, Ole Betsy; turn over, will you!” Roy Rogers, on his fifties TV show, had a sidekick named Pat Brady. He had a Jeep he called “Nelly Belle”. [http://www.happytrailshighway.com/view/uploads/Nellybelle&Pat.jpg](http://www.happytrailshighway.com/view/uploads/Nellybelle&Pat.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/16 "2010-12-21T06:06:34Z")
Many people I know have nicknames for their cars. A friend had a Dodge Omni and they affectionately called it the “Omelet”. Of own cars, the vile green metallic 1948 Chevrolet was called the Green Hornet by my classmates in college. The name stuck. Even my then girlfriend called it that. Of later cars, our 1977 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi Lancer in disguise) was christened the “peepot” by my wife because of it sluggish performance. The 1994 silver Nissan Sentra XE is now called the “silver bullet”. We worked with a guy who had to have the largest car money could buy. He had a 1975 long wheelbase Olds 98, which we christened it “The Whale”. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names/58893/17 "2010-12-21T19:20:55Z")
My GF rented a white Hyundai Accent that we called “the Egg” (owing to shape and color). When she bought a (pastel olive) Ford Focus, we called that “the Avocado.” I once knew a friend of my dad’s who apparently named his Buick Century “Philip.” (He was forever saying, “There goes another $20 to Philip the Buick!”)