Naming cars

I had a fiat once which my late husband named 'the fiat fartbox' as it was tiny, I had a mini named 'Hilda' and my current fiat is called 'Freda'.
I did have an old ford called 'foxy' and a Hillman called freddy

A friend's little blue 1960s car was Ferdie the Fiat.
Number plate prompted Lyle.

Ruby Tuesday, Nelson (trafalgar blue morris minor), Fay.

I've just remembered the Honda's name: Mollie.

ninathenana, yes it was pretty traumatic at the time, not least for the two nine year olds involved!! But the seat belts did their job, the airbags did their job, and the "box" of the car (the bit we were in) stayed intact. I won't hear a word against Mondeo structure unless it has changed out of all recognition!

My current car is called Mitsi, she's a Mitsubishi. A long time ago we had a big, heavy car with the Reg NSX. She was called No Sex. And my uncle had a very old Austin Reg EAE nicknamed The Flying Flea.

No, I never have. But my daughter had a Citroen C3 that she named Clive. She lived in Hull at the time and over there, Clive is pronounced Claaave, which she though was amusing (in a nice way).

No, never named a car and the recent cars we have had don't have a model name just a letter and number, A3 and A1.

Gagagran ? with a name like that, it's going to be an excellent car.
My sat nav is called Tommy due to the make. It suits the male voice I set it up with.

We got our new car this week. It's a Kia Venga so has already been labelled Arsene by the footie fans in the family.

Our is called Numpty, it would make sense if you saw the number plate

Never! I have a Honda CRV so perhaps 'she' should be called Horatia. DH called the SatNav 'Bruce', as he had an Aussie accent.

Well, it's obviously a lot more common to name a car than you would imagine, now, who will confess to not only naming and talking to the car but to patting it.! Come on, you know you do....

I have never named a car, but my grandson called our last car C-3PO after the Star Wars character. His reason? The registration nuber was C?63 P?O.
Only a 7yo would have spotted that.

My first car, an old Wolsey Hornet was called Katy Jane . Named my girls as the Reg. No. was KTY *.

A Corsa I had for a very short time was called 'Scary Mary' as I hated it and never felt 'right' in it. it just seemed to have a nasty presence.

My current car is called Ms. Baffle. Again due to the Reg. BFL.

I have only ever named one car, "the pig". It was a terrible car to start, very old stop gap between two better cars. My late MiL called her car Dinah.

First one was called cherry because of the colour. It was really for the children and I haven't given names to any other cars since. But maybe I will now...

We have always named our cars .... we had a Big Bertha back in the day a huge old foreign estate job that let us down bit by bit until only one door was working .

She was followed by Red Sonia , a very old red vauxhall who had a tricky engine part and so would conk out often meaning Id have to run round throw up the bonnet and fiddle with her till she restarted !!

Our current Vauxhall Zafira is called ' Optimus Prime' named by one of the DGS. No idea why but we all obliging say it when we're talking about the car .

I have only named a car when it was a quirky or character. When I was a District Nurse I had a Red 2CV - named Poppy of course and she was wonderful. After that I had nice shiny 'good' cars which didn't get names but in retirement we decided on only one 'good' i.e. new car. after a while I missed having my own car so a small cheap one was sought. Enter Mildred the pale Blue Suzuki Altro- cheap to buy, costs £20 a year tax and I give her 'drink' of petrol every couple of months at about £20 a real old lady car - hence the name.

My first car was named Prunella , in my defence I was seventeen

Many many yrs ago, my x made a kit car which was bright yellow and named ( for obvious reasons) 'The Flying S***e' !!

I'm slightly concerned that I am very macho pippa as I drive a Honda CRV - the 3Rd I've owned although this one is a nice purple/ blue colour!.

The only car that we have named was my Citroën Diane!!

We do, however, name the sat nav 'naggy aggie!'

I've never named my cars but I remember apologising to one that I felt should have had a racier owner than me. I felt that I let it down. My last car felt like my friend and I'm sorry I changed it for the efficient but soulless one I have now. Am now feeling guilty for writing that. I wouldn't want to hurt its feelings. It does its Teutonic best. Oh God. I'm daft! Sorry everyone.

In our motor-cycling days our bikes were always called "BESS" - and then numbered. We have never named our cars, and my husband can never remember the number plate. Is that a man thing?

My car is called Iris because of her colour, a dark, slightly purpley blue.

I was so proud of my very own first car, having only ever had use of my DH's old crates up till then. It had got to the point where I refused to get in his car as it was such an old banger, so I took out a loan and bought my own car, a Fiesta Bravo, only 2 years old.
She was called Juliet (Juliet Bravo - get it? ), although I always thought of her as Weetabix as her reg plate started with WT and ended with 81X.
I exchanged her for a Rover, then a Peugeot, then a Seat, and now I drive a Fiesta again, but I've never named any of them.