Sadly my cars name is not Battle Hardened, the Road Warrior of Chester County the 10th. In fact i usually just call her Scooby or The Scoobaru. Dont really like when people call them Subie's. Other car names were
Civic- Madeline (Maddy)
Chevy Blazer- Courtney
240sx- Twofourdee
Jeep #1- Whitney
Jeep #2- 4x4Turtle
third jeep was just called Jeep. called my bikes Harley or GSXR, no special names. I still talk to my car like im talking to a puppy. People think its weird and give me odd looks in the parking lot. But oh well, makes me happy.
As I guess I've stated before, I stopped naming my cars some time in the late '80's. It's "the wagon". I think I did affectionately refer to my '87 4Runner as "my mountain goat" for a while, because it seemed to be able to go anywhere. At this point though, I just don't see a reason to refer to my Subaru as "Darla", or something.
In fairness to you guys, I'm in my late '40's and have owned a lot of cars.
Shoopster, sometimes the Shoopster, the Shoop, or just Shoop; La Shoopster if I'm speaking French.
My boyfriend calls me Choupette (pronounced shoo-PET), which is an affectionate name for a loved one but also Herby the Love Bug's name in the movie's French version.
Thus the Shoopster is Choupette's car. Sometimes also the Choupette-mobile, or the shoop-mobile. Eventually morphed to Shoopster.
I refer to mine as "das Werkz" with a weird German accent, which is kinda like sounding out "the WRX" but German has other words besides "the" to stick in front of stuff.
Cute Neighbor Girl caught me cleaning up the BRZ yesterday, and asked me if I'd "named her", yet. I almost wished I was into that kind of thing, just to have an excuse to talk to her longer.
I take insult when the car is referred to as "her". With a catted uppipe, Subaru clearly intended to neuter bugeyes. Therefore, mine was very much an "it".