Did you name your Prius?

Yeah ... I call it 'The Prius' ..... it looks like every other 2010 Winter Grey Prius on the road.

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Too lazy to link my pic from the newbie forum. Ginny took over for my beloved Althea (I can't bear to say she's been replaced) and sits next to her big sister Zooey. The Carmax appraiser asked if my car had a name, and while most people seem to think it's weird to name cars, he told me most people do it.

The tint looks great on Halford. I keep flipflopping if I want to get it done. Ginny has a small rear window where yours seems to be blacked out. I take it that you didn't do that yourself?

 

No offense to those who do name their cars, but the practice seems a bit over the top. It's just a set of wheels, LOL.

 

When the rattles become especially annoying I have several names for it. I won't mention them here.

 

I didn't name either my 2001 or 2004 Prius but when I got my Chevy Volt the OnStar telematics wanted me to give it a nickname in place of using a VIN to identify the car in the iPhone app, MyVolt.com website, or in the monthly efficiency and maintenance status report I get via email.

I named it Arthur Dent, after the character in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book series, since it is the 42nd Volt off of the production factory assembly line.

Does the Toyota/Lexus Safety Connect telematics stuff in the advanced trim PiP and other cars also ask for a car nickname? I can see this becoming common when there are multiple cars under the same household ownership.

 

I call mine Prius ... it even came with a name tag.

 

I call mine "My Car". My wife knows exactly which vehicle we'll be taking if I say we are taking my car. Funny thing, is that the same name she calls her van (my car). We keep it simple like that.

 

I didn't name it but my wife did. She calls it The Princess because of the way that I take care of it.

 

Usually don't name my Cars, but my last car, a Cadillac, I did name a Piece of Cr*p.

 

Mine doesn't know it's name. It never comes to me no matter what I call it.


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I don't have a name for the car, but we all call the voice recognition "The Nav Lady".

 

I call him Mr. Prius
( Thank You Mr. Prius )
The navigation system goes by Lola.

Richard

 

LOL I hear you. I have some choice words for my car too for those rattles. This is actually the first car that has disappointed me (rattles wise)enough to not earn a name.

 

With all the little modifications and such I feel like I am totally pimping it out like some young kid (which I am not). Therefore I have named here The Primpmobile

 

The guys at work call it the golf cart, I call it the un-VW.

 

My Prius is named "Hamster," since the car looks like a mousy hamster!

 

My wife and I both call ours Baby. Her GPS is called Hugh(Jackman), the voice program she bought sounds like him. I called my GPS the b**** because she was always so demanding and was ordering me around.

The real confusion is she calls cars a he and I call them she. So Baby is a little gender confused.