Just curious, Benjamin and I, why do we name our cars? Someone told me I was crazy. I told them that they just did not understand, and that they obviously have never had a close relationship with a car. They then told me I was sick in the head
Oh well....
Guess I am sick and crazy...and in love

MP and Benjamin (84300SD)

Cars are named just as one would name a pet.

I name mine so people know which one I am talking about. And a little out of affection and labeling of the personality of the car.

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89 190E
2.6L
Arctic white
Grey leather
Sunroof
Pirelli P400 rubber
Smoked corners

So if you walked up to me and said "I having a problem with " that would help me understand which car you were having a problem with better than saying "I'm having a problem with my 190"????

I've never understood this practice, I think it's a bit strange.

. . . it's kind of fun to find the character of the car and express it in a name. In the animal arena, for example, my late Maine Coon cat was named "Arizona" -- he was large, sandy-colored, and with the general prickliness of a cactus.

I nicknamed the 420SEL "The Tirpitz", after the famous German battleship, because (duh) it was big, grey, and German. I considered "Bismarck", but that would have been too many letters for a vanity plate. (Though I have my limits: I never really considered getting a vanity plate that read "Tirpitz". Too many historically-challenged people would have asked me, "Why'd yuh name yore car 'Tar Pits'?")

The little gold C230 is still too new for a nickname, though its sturdy little manner has led me to liken it -- if the 420SEL was a thoroughbred -- to a quarter horse.

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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

Sorry, but I agree with Tim.

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

I meant with my family. Of course you would not have a clue

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89 190E
2.6L
Arctic white
Grey leather
Sunroof
Pirelli P400 rubber
Smoked corners

I dunno either, but they all earn a name of some sort or another.

To date all of my family's benzes have been named after their color, however that may change.

'85 300D Turbo Black/Palamino "Black Beauty" KIA Aug '88 at 78,000 miles by a nissan running a red-light and T-boning my mom. Fortunatly she was uninjured. The engine still ran, but the frame was bent. I had been promised that car when I turned 16 (was 10 at the time)

'87 300D Turbo Silver/Grey "Silver Bullet" Fast, but not too quick. Did not do well in the snow and ice so we sold it when we moved to Colorado.

'78 300CD White/Navy "White Lightning" Named for cognitive dissonance my first car. Got it at 158k miles, currently 221k miles My sister teases me by calling it the "White Wonder" since its so old she "Wonders if it will start"

'88 560SEL Navy/Palamino origionally planned on naming it "Big Blue" or something equally cheezy... although the terms "Damned Yankee" and "Kurt Weildheim" seem to stick alot (car was purchaced from PO in NY) I'm been calling it Kurt since it's been acting like an f'ing nazi and things only go well with it when I play Wagner or Beethoven. Time should tell..

I think we name our cars becuase that was a give the Germans gave us by only naming the cars with a number. Who would of thought the Germans could be so creative

Other cars in the family (although not mine"
'99 Acura 3.2TL no official name but I call it the "Akula" since its grey and looks like a shark
'01 VW Passat "Wolf Wagon" or "Wolfie" for short since Volk is also Russian for "Wolf"
'93 Jeep Grand Cherokee "Reggie" dunno how it got that name
'96 Jeep Grand Cherokee "Darth" was black

I'll chalk it up to a human nature towards personification of inanimate objects. But whatever works.