I was out today taking a drive and came across an older couple driving 80 300d. We exchanged hellos and they asked me what my cars name was? When I told them I had not named it the gentleman told me,"just like a boat you have to name your Mercedes. Mines is Ben".

Ok, so I have to ask you guys. Have you named your car, if so what its name?

Christine, of course...

My 240's name is Flo, I've often thought of getting custom plate with FLO. My 300TD's name was Winnie (Winnie the Wagon). My wife named Flo, and she had the name picked out before we even had seen the car, we were on the way to look at it. She denies this but I know it to be true. I should have known at that point that we were going to have it for a long time. Sometimes the names come quickly and other times it takes a while. It took a long time to name my wagon.

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Milo and Otis.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 142k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

Currently Alex and Bruiser. Formerly Butterball, Cali, UPS, and others.

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79 MB 280 SEL Euro 133k
77 MB 450SL 154k
05 Mustang GT Vert (3) 104k
12 TSX Wagon Tech (66k) (192k)
06 Subaru Outback base (135k) 164k
16 Acura MDX (109k) 111k
18 Silverado 2500 LTZ Midnight (212) 56k
97 Ford Ranger 163k
11 RAV4 154k
01 Escape 173k
04 Honda Pilot 292k
1967 Mustang (Resto Project)
1968 Mustang (Parts Bin)
00 Ford Ranger 124k

My 1993 Ford Explorer is named "Marshal Zhukov". It's really cute to hear my little daughters say it, "Daddy, are we taking the Zhookov?"

1995 Dodge Ram is "Marshal Rokossovsky". Well, you get the theme.

1982 Mecedes 240D is known simply as "Mercy"

1995 GMC 6.5 diesel truck is known as "Colonel Krink"

my other 1982 Mercedes, 300DT, had not had a name until one day my wife referred to it as "the storage Mercedes"... I can't think of it by any other moniker now.

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'82 300D (project)
'46 Willys (project)
"Nothing seems to be the way it should in this garage." -jt20
"Smarter than an engine, dumber than a hoodlatch..." -jt20
"Start jumping up and down to smoosh down those engine mounts" -DeliveryValve
"no" -kerry
"At this rate, you may have it done by winter" -layback40

My dodge truck is "the big dog", my silver 500SEC was "the silver bullet", my daughter calls the 82 300cd "Neville".

My formula ford is "the race car".

My wife's pt cruiser is "barney" because of its color.

My MItsubishi Montero with the little snow plow is called "the jeep".

My first car, the 60 simca was called Albert. (was that before the beatles uncle albert song? about 1965.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

The 80 300SD is "The Ambassador" because early on friends kept telling me it looked like an Ambassadors car, so that was easy.

The 87 SDL is "Big Blue" because, well, it's big and it's blue.

The 72 SEL is "Old Blue" because, you guessed it, it's old and it's blue

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Joe

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1980 300SD - 495k miles - 'The Ambassador'
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Former Family Members
95 C280
73 280SEL
90 300D
87 300SDL (X2)
86 560SEL
84 300D
80 300SD

What I call my car most frequently I can not type here

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1991 560 SEL / 185k miles
1992 750il / 17k miles - project car

One of my favorites was 'Beirut Taxi', the name I bestowed on my rusty '81 manual 240D. Unfortunately, some dirtbag stole the car from the susequent owner and torched it!

Happy Motoring, Mark

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DrDKW

I've always admired people who can name their vehicles, I just don't have the personality for it. For some reason, I can't refer to a vehicle by a name rather by type like: "The Mercedes" or "The Ford".

My GF calls my truck "Xena the Warrior Princess" but if I wanted to name the Mercedes, it would probably be "Mariah" since it's black.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

300SDL = "Pearl" -- as in, the black pearl, pearl black paint color on the chart, take your pick
300SD = "Natalie", named after her previous owner. She's been "the Natalie car" for as long as I can remember so it's not too much of a stretch.
240D = "Tortuga" -- spanish for "turtle", a reference to the top speed and acceleration characteristics.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

That's hilarious! One of my friends bestowed the same name on MY '81 manual 240D. Bizarre.

... sorry but naming your car is insanity.

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1996 s10 zr2 with a 6.5 turbo diesel
1996 c2500 suburban with a 6.5 turbo diesel
1981 300sd with a turbo 617
Monte carlo figure 8 car

aw come on josh... don't be that way!
I haven't named any of mine so far, but my family had vettes that were named. byron and bruno. I call them by color and year... but then, I've got plenty and would run out of names.

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!