Clyde....Black Cooper S with neon yellow stripes and mirror caps. I went all the way to Wales to get him and at the time thought Clyde was a Welsh name. The name's stuck since then
The Caterham 7 is Katy
The MG Midget is Madge
The Honda Civic Type R is Air (the French "R")
The Honda Jazz is .... Jazz
and the Fiat estate is Farty Fiat.
I tried to call my car 'the butler' but I could never move past simply calling it 'my car'. I think the closest I got to naming it was 'ma b*tch' . maybe that's why it just cost me a freakin' bomb at the garage ..... New car on the way, thinking I may return to 'the butler' or (for some strange reason) I'm thinking 'Mabel'.
I always cringed a bit at naming cars, but coincidentally part of my number plate spelt 'OMD'. In the Uk, we had a band in the 80's with that name (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark). They released a song called 'Enola Gay' (the plane that dropped the atom bomb).
Before I knew it, we always referred to the car as The Enola Gay.
Mine is Bella. Not very profound or clever but because it's yellow and with a cockney accent it's yella bella. But I do like the Alice Cooper reasoning....
Our Cooper D is just called "the dooper". My other 2 minis are classics and one is called "the cooper" and the other is called "the mini" Im pretty boring when it comes to naming cars lol
It's funny how some cars get a name, the others don't. My wife had a Miata, which had a name. Then she had a Mercedes SLK and other cars, which did not have names. Now she has a Clubman. And the Clubman got immediately a name. Could it be that a car with a name has a friendly personality?
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