RE: Is This A "Guy Thing"?
Hmmm...The only car names I have ever had besides the car's name was a reflection of what I thought about the car, I've stopped naming cars after high school. If you are easily offended, don't read my comparisons. Beware, you've been warned.
98 Taurus=the catfish
96 Olds Ciera=the mouse (I also called it the Junkmobile when it broke down on me)
late 90s Riviera=the eggmobile
Crown Victoria=the baconmobile
Town Car=the Moving coffin
early 90s Acclaim/Spirit=the deer slayer (a family nickname: my grandparents have had several of these cars and have killed I don't know how many deer with them and they never had any real damage besides a broken head light once)
1950s Dodge Royal=the tank (killed I don't know how many deer, and ran through a fence without a scratch)
1980s VW Jetta(I think)=the dune buggy (it hit so many deer that the grille and bumper was gone and my uncle put dune buggy lights on it)
1985 Ford LTD Crown Vic station wagon=the blue immortal beast (aunt's station wagon that has over 300K on original powertrain and still won't die)
1993 Jaguar XJ6= the junkuar (no offense to our friends in the U.K.) (my aunt's Jaguar that spent more time in the shop than on the road)
The list could go on forever. One of trademark jokes in my dad's family is that everyone has a car that represents how frugal we all are.
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