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What's Your Car's Name?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by dopeysjon, May 3, 2006.

  1. Prizzle

    Prizzle New Member

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    From the hizzle.
     
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  2. stealthgirl

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    My baby is the pod.
     
  3. HTMLSpinnr

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    My kids call my '04 Tideland "Clover".
     
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    I named him Archie.
    Most Toyota factories that build the Prius are located in the Aichi Prefecture in Japan, so I just changed a couple letters in the name to make it sound more masculine :)
     
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    Mine is The Silver Rhinoceros. My daughter decided it was appropriate...She's got a little buddy, Spike, that sits inside...

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  6. mike0422

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    It's funny I named my first Toyota I ever owned and the only other car I've named is this one. My first Toyota was an 81 Starlet. It was yellow and I called it Peanut. My Prius is Green and I call it Kermit.
     
  7. J.Wilkie

    J.Wilkie 80 Mile Daily Commute

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    We call it the "Pee-Zev"
     
  8. darelldd

    darelldd Prius is our Gas Guzzler

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    We don't normally name our vehicles. But that doesn't stop my 5-year-old. To her, the Prius is "The stinky gas car." A bit of a mouthful, but it says volumes. :)
     
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    I always use illiteration when I name a car. My last car was Suzi the Suzuki.. I just traded her in for a 2012 Prius and Wednesday and after a lot of votes, stupid suggestions and thinking way too much, I named her Penelope the Prius. It's very fitting and has absolutely no meaning. I just think it's pretty.
     
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  10. Moving Right Along

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    I don't typically name vehicles, but I had to come up with something to label it on Fuelly, so I chose "Red MPG Machine" because it's red and gets the best miles per gallon of any car I've had before.
     
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  12. jerrymildred

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    The only vehicle I've ever named was my last motorcycle. But I am kind if thinking about naming my "new" car Pip. For obvious reasons.
     
  13. Bill the Engineer

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    Bill the Engineer
     
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  14. Moving Right Along

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    F-i-r-e-b-r-i-d? Trying to see how long it takes for people to notice it's not "firebird"?
     
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  15. Bill the Engineer

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    I love word play.

    BTW, typing it into a Google search finds all of the people on-line who can't spell! :ROFLMAO:

    My red 2010 Gen-III is Ruby and my green 2004 Gen-II is Gladys. They both got their names while we were responding to the nagging from the navigation voice whenever we took a new road not on her map. ;)

    Bill the Engineer
     
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    My friends and I dubbed mine as "Sasha", from Scrubs (JD's scooter and donkey). It was disappointing that when Sasha was replaced by a Prius, her name didn't carry with it. Ahh well.

    PS, any Nerd³ fans? Who might relate and understand a deeper meaning to it? No? ok..
     
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  17. srellim234

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    For now we just call it "the Prius" but I suspect after sitting in those seats on our 6,000+ mile road trip this coming summer there might be a bit of profanity between the "the" and the "Prius". I think our butts are going to be pretty sore. :eek:
     
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    Diablo..the red she devil !

    SAMSUNG-SM-G891A ?
     
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    Put-put...never written it until now but that's what my kids call it since it is slow.