Motor vehicles you gave names to

Most of us have owned one or more motor vehicles. I'm sure many of us have christened a vehicle with a familiar and informal name. I like this habit because it does away with constantly using commercialized marketing language to describe an object in frequent use. I'd rather tell my wife I'm taking Sylvie to the store, instead of the Prius.

Here are some other names of some vehicles from my past:

Juniper - a blue 1979 Honda Accord.
Hector - a brown 1978 Toyota Corrolla wagon
Evie - a 1984 Chrysler minivan
Annie - a dark gray 1993 Honda Civic
Ru - a red 1997 Subaru station wagon
Sylvie - a silver gray 2015 Toyota Prius
Sean - a bronze 2024 Subaru Outback

My brother has owned:

Amy - a 1953 Ford pickup
Ike - a 1964 Studebaker sedan
Olga - a 2004? Mitsubishi Montero

Colonel Mustard - tan Toyota hatchback
Miss Silver - one of my mom's later vehicles but I forget the make/model, sorry

you are inspiring me to name the current vehicles!

I feel like this was maybe a thing for my parents' generation -- I can't imagine that anyone I know has ever done this.

But I could be wrong!

The Whale - marine-blue 1979 Plymouth Reliant K
Blinky - gold 1996 Toyota Corolla
Carlos - black 2012 Ford Fiesta
Totoro - Silver 2022 Rav-4 Hybrid

xp even this classic Tom Waits piece about cars from the late 80s has no mention of vehicle names but I think it's still a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmNpbWKSEc

The Tick — bright blue 2014 Mazda CX-5 (our current car, which turns 12 next month)

My wife had a mid-60s Impala named Geraldine in high school and a mid-70s Vega named Becket in grad school and a while afterwards.

Our 2004 Toyota Camry is named Wanda and it always makes me sing "I'm kinda fonda Wanda cause Wanda wantsta"

ive never named a car until my current on which i call 'plebian' bc it helps me remember the first three letters (PLB) of my plate#

plebian is good. better than Personal Locator Beacon

lol that actually reminds me that we had a light blue Volvo when I was a kid that we called "Figgy" because the letters were FGY

A friend had a late 70s brown Mercedes that had no end of issues. Anything that could go wrong with that car, did. Ergo, Murphy Brown

Great thread!
I’ve owned five cars but only named two of those:

The Floyd - 1994 Volkswagen Golf MK3 Pink Floyd edition (it ruled)
De Witte Schicht (White Lightning) - 2010 Volvo C30 R-Design (so named by a friend for its go-kart character)

Should nickname the car I bought last year..

2025 Toyota Corolla: named it "Piepje" (Dutch for Beepie or something). These new cars, because of EU regulations, constantly make warning sounds for every reason possible