S/O of car thread - naming your vehicle

Cars are metal and plastic and I have to be honest, I think naming them, calling them 'she' etc is daft.

We call our 96 Landcruiser the zombie killer because it is outfitted with a roof rack, a front steel bumper, and it looks very intimidating. It is definitely a vehicle you would want in a zombie apocalypse. I used to call my old Hyundai Accent "Bean" because it was tiny and resembled a bean.

I don't usually name my cars, but my current vehicle (2006 Honda Ridgeline) was christened Ridgie by my kids and sister. I had been parking in her garage, right by the entrance from the kitchen and when you went to the garage the truck's front end was literally right there in your face with little room to maneuver around. My sister said it looked like a giant dinosaur ready to grab you... a Ridge-a-saurus. It got shortened to Ridgie as a nickname and that's that. I have had the car for 9 years and the name has stuck so hard to the car that I have personalized plates that say Ridgie.

We don't currently have names for either of our cars. but we had a 1992 ford 250 extended cab pickup we named Clyde. It was big and bad like a Clydesdale horse. 

I had an old red pile of crap before we got the Cruiser and I named it SHITPILE! It was ugly when we got it but our ford ranger I was driving at the time got totaled so I had to replace it.   I hated that car from day one. The drivers door didn't roll down. so you had to open the door to go through a drive through.  It kept going through brakes like crazy. We had work done on it but the master cylinder was bad so we decided to get rid of it. We did give it to a friend for 1 dollar because in the state of Oregon you can not gift a car to a non family member. I know it is stupid.  She was broke and needed a car because hers died and she couldn't afford to buy one for a few months. She ended up using it for a down payment on something better. 

We really loved Clyde. We drove him all over the place. Took him to Utah and brought back a uhaul trailer full of furniture from husbands grandma after she passed away. we had a canopy on it and it was full the trailer was full and we had a queen mattress and box springs we tied on the top of the canopy.  

I don't, but my sister has a 69 Firebird named Henry

We got a new car in February and her name is Valentina (we got her the day before Valentine's Day). My previous car did not have a name but for some reason, I felt that this one needed a name.   It is an Explorer and a couple of months after we had her, my son said we should have named her Dora. I thought that was cute.

My husband has a truck and we just call it Truckie. We had a car named Hunka Junk when I was a kid.

We don't have actual names for ours, just nicknames so we know which one we are taking.

Little red (Ranger), Big Blue (Expedition), Big Ass Truck (F150 4X4) and Mini me (Mini Cooper). Mine is the only "she" out of the bunch (cause I hate being the only girl, even our pets are boys, so my car is a "she").

Mine is named Fiona because the color is Fiona from Shrek green. My DH has the same vehicle as me and his is Kiwi because it's a Kiwi color. (We didn't plan on similar colors, it just happened).

We don't name our vehicles - they are just "the Acadia" and "the Suburban", but I call my GPS Sabrina.

However, we call our two refrigerators Brad and Janet. We have two because we need the extra space for the supplies for the coffee shop that we have next to the motel office. Sometimes our personal stuff [like the kids' pop and juice boxes] get put into the one for the coffee shop. They used to be "the big fridge" - our personal one - and "the little fridge" - the coffee shop one - until the little fridge died and we bought a new one. The new one was bigger than the big fridge. Two or three of the DGDs were here one day soon after that and asked if they could have a drink. I said sure and they asked where they were. I said "Um, in the big one, no, I mean the new one. Oh, we should just give them names." They came up with Brad and Janet [Rocky Horror Picture Show characters].

Dh's car is Selene, mine is Miranda, as she's Tempest Blue.

I've never named a car. Probably never will.

My first car was called Porn Star... It was a hand-me-down from my older brother, and for the longest time there was a sticker on the back window that said "porn star" on it. I don't know why... It's not like he was one. Although he was a college student at the time, so I'm sure he did some interesting things.

My second car was named Dimples about 6 months after I bought it. It sustained some pretty serious hail damage, and although it was repaired, the name stuck.

My first brand new car, that I just bought in March, is named Betty... as in Betty White. Because it's white and it's pretty!

My first car that I bought on my own was a Geo Metro. My dad's friend commented that the engine sounded less like turbo and more like turbie. So it's name became Turbie.

My current van is the Family Truckster.

In color, my car is pebble beige. So, she is named Pebbles.