What does everyone think of people who name their cars and refer to them like they are a person? Is this strange behavior or normal?

 

IMHO it is normal. Kinda. Ok, it is a bit odd, but come on, when you love something you name it. When you invest a huge chunk of your income on a car, why not treat it like a member of the family. Car enthusiasts are a different breed to be sure. We understand the relationship between man and machine.

 

Depends on the extent. I "named" mine, but I don't refer to it by name in conversation or anyting. I'm military, and I guess it harks back to naming a rifle so as to appreciate it more and take better care or something. Honestly, I don't know why I was attraced to naming it, but I was and did.

 

Come on.
What would this place be without my Ellie and His Ralph

I call em by name to distinguish em-
Otherwise it would be my Kickass Yellow and his Tungsten.

 

I have named everyone of mine. Am I crazy, I don't think so.

 

Psychologists claim it is not uncommon for children to make up imaginary friends or establish imaginary relationships and is a common, normal behavior although their statistics indicate that eventually they are more likely to enjoy the comforts of sofa consulatations.

 

Dubh and I think that it is perfectly normal.

 

I've named a car before.....but it was because it was a piece of crap. I had a '94 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4 with 190,000 miles and called it "the Red Dragon".....by buddy had a an '86 Aries K Wagon and he m\named it "the Silver Bullet".....but I've never named a car a human name....so my '65 remains nameless....and I dont really plan on naming it....but I'm not opposed.

 

I haven't named a car, but I've always refered to them as a woman like "she" or "Baby". The of course there's name calling when something breaks i.e. B!@# or POS. But that's something i'm sure everyone has done at one point or another.

 

Always have, always will.
Blue Goose, Blinkengruber, ThunderChicken, Green Goddess, Grey Ghost, Red Wreck, Red Mess, Lung Fish, Lewis&Clark, Red Horse (the '06 Mustang - go figure).

 

I had an orange car before that I called Pumpkin. No name yet for this Mustang but not opposed to naming cars.

 

My car has a name which is Mustang and I refer to it as "it". When people ask about "it" I tell them "it" is a badass vehicle...

 

I recently over heard a conversation between two GTs referring to their owners as Mary and Susie.

So I was curious and wouldn't you know it? A few minutes later a couple of guys got in the GTs and drove off.

 

Mine is named "The Awesome Vehicle 4." It stems from a long line of Awesome Vehicles dating back to 1989!

It is ok to refer to "The Awesome One" in conversation as well.

 

When I had my WS6, a coworker used to stop me at work alot and talk about cars. He told me cars with auto trans were girls and cars with manual trans are boys. I always thought he was kinda crazy. I don't see his logic. Apparently I believe he felt I was delinquent for not having named my car.

But I've never really named my cars. I once had a blue mercury lynx with a broken air conditioner. Around my peers, I often referred to it as the "Blue Flame". Blue because of the color, and Flame because Alabama summers without air are hot as hell.

I never paid much attention, but I found out that my wife has been naming all of our cars. She has been calling my black mustang, "Blackjack". That is just too corny for me. Now I feel compelled to come up with a more proper name.

 

Trigger is the first car i have ever named. I use her name so much that everyone at home and at work calls her Trigger.

My daughters and I love to go out and leave "Triggy Tracks" all over town.

 

fiona

 

This is my first named vehicle, although I never refer to it by name generally. But when I do something that gets me a discouraging look from my fiance` in my Mustang, I tell her "it's "Roxies" fault!"

I think the vast majority of people name their cars but a much smaller percent actually refer to them only by name.

 

Yes we're all very strange. No it's not normal.

 

We refer to them by name as do everyone who knows us-
Ellie is famous.
People ask me: How is Ellie?
And when we go out we say: Ralph Ellie or Both(if we have the kids we usually take both because they are teenagers who hate the backseat).