My blue civic back in 2005 was nicknamed cobalt. “You can take cobalt to pick dad up at the airport”. Something I had picked from Gone in 60 seconds that I found cool (naming cars, not cobalt)
My first car was a 96 f-150 the previous owner named “Maurice” I didn’t change it cause it supposed to be bad luck. Then I had a 2001 Pontiac grand am I called “Jaun claude” which I was rather proud of. My current one is just “V” cause it’s a Ford Fusion Hybrid and the engine looks like it came out of cyberpunk.
Huh. Naming a car, the model name of a completely different brand of car, a model which was contemporary with your car, would be very confusing to me.
You can take cobalt
“But you don’t have a cobalt.”
The Cobalt doesn’t really sell where I live, at least I have never seen one. I had to duckduckgo it
I do this on purpose, to annoy any friend who catches a ride with me.
Walking up to my Ford Tempo, “I thought you drive a Cadillac?!”
“That’s it’s nickname.”
baby car
Hyperion, Hype for short.
My last car was a Ford escape called 7 after seven of nine from Star Trek. I was feeling less creative when we got our current car, a tan C-Max, and it’s just called Sandy.
I had a black Citroen C4 I called Marxine, from Karl Marx plus making it sound feminine and french lol.
We have a purple c4 cactus we named Jean Pierre as he’s French.
I named my motorcycle. His name is Bubba, and he’s a power bottom.
We have a Hyundai Sonata hybrid with Blue Drive so she is called “Blue.”
“Chaser” because we live out in the country and use it to pick up our dogs who sometimes wander off and we have to go retrieve. Also, because it’s a Chevy. It’s Chevy Chase_r_.
My current car is named Lizzie, after Tin Lizzie, despite the fact that it’s in great shape. The first car I had was a rusted out ‘93 Impreza we called Tin Lizzie. So when I got my newest car and the license plate started with LZZ, I took it as a sign to bring the name back.
My spouse had a suped up Challenger named Gurtrude. It was a funny reaction when people saw it for the first time. They expected a beater.
I named my red xtrail “Big Red” after the feminist, my first car was called Betty, named after Master Betty from Kung Pow.
Every gray car I have (always a hatchback) has been named “Vanship” after the flying vehicles in the anime Last Exile
It’s just a nickname I know, I don’t refer to the car like that to others
I have named some of the cars I have owned.
1970 Chevy Impala: Liberty. I purchased it from a guy that lived in Liberty, KY.
1997 Nissan 200SX SE-R: Dot. It was one of ~700 200SX’s made that year that was the Pacific Blue color and it reminded me of Carl Sagan’s “The Pale Blue Dot” documentary.
2003 Acura TL: Sally. No specific reason, other than it just fit the personality of the car.
2014 Camry (current car): Pearl. It’s painted in Toyota’s Cosmic Mica Gray and it glitters in the sunlight, vaguely reminiscent of a pearl.
Just for reference, I’m 54 and have had a license since 1986. Liberty was my first car. There are a few cars not mentioned above, because I just never named them. The 200SX was the second SE-R I owned. The first was a 92 Sentra SE-R, which I liked a lot more than the 200SX, it just never got a name.
We have a 2012 Ford Fiesta that we call “Siesta”. That car sucks a good amount. Been meaning to get rid of it for years now.
