OT - Talking Cars Tuesday - Car Names

Being a Honda guy myself, I'm partial to Si, Type R, Type S, B18, B16, H22, etc. The Acura alphabet soup is annoying sometimes, but I do love the NSX.

This maybe not the topic per se' but I name all my cars. I'm currently driving Jane but my favorite was Chloe. That was my Explorer and I truly miss that ride

Ben mentioned the old VW names.  They were fine.  

Its the new names - VW Golf & VW Passat,  Then throw a "clean diesel" engine in them and its really bad.   

 

I used to love the early 80s Le Baron when I was a kid. I had a dye cast matchbox one that I thought was the coolest thing in the world, until my dad took me to the showroom and I sat in one. It was obviously pretty cool since I still remember it nearly 35 years later.

Favorite was a Ford Ranchero. My sister's first car was a Vega and I kind of like that name.

I remember Monzas too. Man that was a long time ago.

Gran Torino Elite

I still think Yugo is a great name for a car.

I currently drive a Subaru Forester cleverly named Forest.

First car in high school, 64 1/2 mustang. Named it Katie. Both are gone, but both were my first loves.

Great Names - Mustang, Firebird, Charger, Cordoba, Electra, Park Avenue, Caprice, Continental Mark V, Riveria

Bad Names - Ford Futura, Yugo, Century, Regal, Valiant

I bought a car today. Silver Infinity q40. I'll name it whatever response to this get the most up votes.

In terms of car names in general, I am pretty fond of the Vanquish, Gran Turismo, VW Thing, and the Challenger (original of course). Worst would probably be the Pinto, Prius, and the VW rabbit.

Honorable mention for a great name would be Nissan Frontier considering it is a truck (albeit a terrible one)

Always liked the F40. Seemed like it had a very good sense of self: powerful and dangerous.

The Judge

All rise.

Best Names -- Prowler, Shadow, Cobra, Nova

Worst Names -- Brat, Hummer, Probe, Festiva

Toyota Corolla is the worst - they named the car after flower petals.

Citation = Terrible name. And terrible car. 

Vlad the Impala for a while.

Sounds so continental.

Easily the worst car name ever, besides all the alphabet soup, is the Chevy Malibu Maxx, the hatchback Malibu.  Malibu Maxx sounds like a washed-up old porn star.

When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she insisted we would need something better that the beaters I always had, so we bought our first new car, a Cutlass Calais.  The marketing geniuses at Oldsmobile were throwing the label Cutlass on three completely different models at that time, the Supreme, the Cierra, and the Calais. I'm sure their intent was to enhance the lesser models with a name that had a proud history, but the net effect was the name was so watered down it lost what ever cache it ever had.

The worst part of buying the car was the idiot salesman.  He told me, "you know, Oldsmobile is the Cadillac of General Motors." It also became clear that in my 20 minutes or so investigating the car, I knew more about it than he did. I bought the car despite the salesman.

In those days, my sister-in-law had a Cordoba, which is a great name, and even though by the time she owned it, it had seen better days, none of us could resist pronouncing the car name like Ricardo Montalban did in the commercials with its "rich Corinthian leather."

Cobra: first car I ever swooned for.

Mustang Mach 1: love the early 70s body style, tied in with my love of the right stuff, which was the first time I saw the movie.

Omni GLH: love the cheakiness

lancer Evo: just liked the name.

When we were at Michigan, my wife (GF at the time) owned a Dodge Omni.

She named him Barney

 

And the only other car I knew had a name was my son's 1996 Buick Skylark.

He named it Bernie

Names I like: Viper, Cobra (Mustang or AC Shelby), Cuda, anything with ramjet, Bullitt or Mach variants of Mustangs, Raptor.

Sadly, none of them were named anything interesting or fun. First car was my mom's 1991 Mazda 626... no idea how those cars got named. Wrapped it around a tree less than a year after getting my license. Nearly killed myself and my best friend on our way to high school. Saved up long enough to buy a gently used 2000 Saturn L200 (with some help from my dad) and got a speeding ticket on my last day of high school. The cop pulled over at least a dozen kids on their way home thanks to the speed trap set up down the road from the school. Thanks to Ohio's driving laws, I lost my license due to having 2 tickets before I turned 18. My brother took over payments and the car was nothing but trouble once it got ~80k miles on it.

Next, A 2002 Ford Focus (which my college girlfriend called the Fuck-us, but that's a different story). Had all sorts of issues with the shitty automatic locks, and unknowingly nearly killed myself from driving around with a tie rod ready to fall off. (Thanks, mechanic friend!) After totalling the Focus on St. Patrick's day at 3 am (yes, it's what you think) I bought the POS that I'm driving now, a 2003 Saturn Ion with steering issues, manual everything, 2 good speakers, and a beautiful burgandy paint job. No rust though!  

For what it's worth... Tyson isn't my favorite. ;-)

My sister has a knack for naming pets, and she also named her cars back in the day.  She had a Chevette (remember those?) which was "Bucky," and then a Toyota Tercel called "Hashimoto."  LOL