What is the sex of your Mercedes or other car?

I've sometimes named my cars.

My 1968 Opel was Otto. The white with blue interior 1963 Cutlass was Trixie. My 1981 VW Rabbit was Harvey (appropriate, the guy who ran into it said he never saw it.) Lots of cars came and went without names. The 1975 burgundy Lincoln Town Car I bought in 1978 during the second oil embargo for $700 (sold after the embargo for $1900) was the Purple Pig. Asexual.

Currently, my two '83 300SD's are Guderian and Rommel, definitely male. The MR2 somehow hasn't gotten a name, but the only appropriate name I can think of has already been used. It is feminine.

I've seen other 300SD's in this forum with feminine names. Why? Is it the color scheme, the way it acts, or some other reason?

I know you can't look at the rear end to tell what gender your car is, so how did you decide?

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1983 300SD "Guderian"
1987 MR2
2015 Camry
2015 Chevy Spark
2006 Hyundai Tucson

I don't name my cars and I've never thought about "genderizing" them, but if I had to guess:

500SL AMG - definitely a guy
300E AMG - definitely a guy
E320 Wagon - probably a girl

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

The block heater plug-end seems to indicate my cars (all diesel) are "male".

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1987 300SDL (324000)

1986 Porsche 951 (944 Turbo) (166000)

1978 Porsche 924 (99000)

1996 Nissan Pathfinder R50 (201000)

my 300D is named Eva...

she has been called

A tank, hitler mobile, jew car(which I totally do not understand.. must be those uneducated rednecks that do not understand a jewish person won't drive a german car ), eva braun, and so on and so on

Whenever the startup cranking takes longer than it should I say "c'mon baby" or "c'mon *****". I guess that's my answer.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

I don't either, but upon seeing mine for the first time, our lovely Mistress dubbed it "The Red Baron"

Well, I've always named every single one of my vehicles. Even my tractor trailers all had names. It's sort of a family tradition. Many have had female names/gender.

1.) 1978 Nova #1; "Laurie" (Sold)
2.)1970 Nova #1 ; "Sampson" (Current)
3.) 1978 Malibu Coupe; "Crystal" (Cousin Totaled it for me)
4.) 1988 Olds Custom Cruiser Wagon #1; "Damien" (Sold)
5.) 1979 Dodge Ramcharger 4x4; "Leo" (Junked)
6.) 1979 Mercedes 300CD#1; "Linda" (Current)
7.) 2001 Freightliner Century Tractor#1; "Miss Joleen Lynn". (Sold)
8.) 1984 Chevy S-10 2WD; "Little Joe",(Sold)
9.) 1970 Nova#2 (Yenko Nova) Current ; "Lonnie",(Current)
10.) 1974 Chevy Caprice Wagon; "Sarge" (Regretably, Sold)
11.) 1984 Lamborgini Countach #1; "Burt" (P.O.S. Traded for the 87)
12.) 1987 Lamborghini Countach #2; "Filamena" (Sold)
13.) 1988 Peterbilt 379 ext.hood #1; "Palumbo" (Sold that P.O.S.)
14.) 1985 Peterbilt 359 day-cab #2; "Fritz" (Sold that P.O.S. too)
15.) 2000 Freightliner Century #2; "Annette" (Sold)
16.) 1994 Peterbilt 379 #3; "Dallas" (Sold that P.O.S.)
17.) 2004 Peterbilt 379 #4; "Goliath" (Hated that P.O.S.,Sold within 6 months.)
18.)A few dozen more Freightliner Century Class, of various names, but many un-named fleet trucks.
19.) One Century in particular went by the name of "Miss Joleen Lynn II". Just sold in July This truck has been seen on this forum in pics.
20.) 1989 Lamborghini Countach anniversary edition; "Pearl" (Current)
21.) 1987 Ford F-150 "Bigfoot Cruiser" edition 4x4 ;"Bigfoot"..What else? (Current)
22.)1988 Chevy C-30 Wrecker; "Bluto" (Sold, in September '07)
23.) (Currently)Several misc. Mercedes 300CD's, of various names and years. Mostly all female.
24.) 1982 Mercedes 280CE, Euro (Grey market) , (Current) "Adolf"
25.) 1988 Mercedes 560, SEC, AMG, EURO; "Dalton" (Current)
26.) 1983 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Wagon #2; "Dreadnaught" (Current)
27.) 1950 Chevy Business Coupe; "Doc" (Current)
28.) 1995 GMC Jimmy 4X4; "Jimmy" of course (Current)
29.) 1998 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic Motorcycle; "Ruby" (Current)
30.) 2000 Harley Fat-Boy; Remains nameless, to date. (Current, Still in crate in my Garage)
31.) 1971 Chevelle "Heavy Chevy"; Sold many years ago, Never named.
32.) 1957 Chevy Bel-Air, 210 Coupe; Sold many years ago.

There are a ton more I've forgotten about, but I'm having a hard time remembering them. Many of my vehicles have had, or have names. Mom started it when my bros. and I were kids. As a result, I still ask her to name my vehicles for me, if I'm having a hard time with it.
To some it's mundane, pointless, "They're just machines" whatever.
To me, It matters a great deal, and somehow seems to "Humanize" the vehicles, and reflect individual characteristics

Call me crazy...

Nick

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My '98 E300 fluctuates between feminine and masculine qualities thus I conclude it is equipped with an Automatic Transgender...............

Max is a total stud. I have referred to some other cars as "*****" when they did not behave as I wanted them to. . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Been there done that.

Nick, you're crazy!

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Not sure, "piece of $h!t" is fairly gender inspecific. Although probably leaning towards the masculine.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Boats are female, so once in awhile my car gets called "she".

I aind't ridden around on the back of some dude.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Not necessarily. My dad had 5 different MB’s and a BMW. He currently has a E320 (210).

I asked him once and he said what better revenge than to drive something that would piss Hitler off to no end?

I figure my car has to be a woman. Damn thing is sucking every last penny out of my pocket and I still treat her like a princess.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

All of my vehicles have been girls with the exception of Bruno the 300SD. He is big, smelly, greasy and slow - just like me! The Corvair was Barbra Ann, the Nomad had to be named Peggy Sue, etc. the only car that had no name was the Impala SS she was just "the Impala"

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad