My blue civic back in 2005 was nicknamed cobalt. “You can take cobalt to pick dad up at the airport”. Something I had picked up from Gone in 60 seconds that I found cool (naming cars, not cobalt)

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    My car is brown.

    The first time I brought it home without telling my wife the color, she was unimpressed and said that it was “shart colored”.

    We immediately named it “El Sharto”, and 5 years later the name has stuck

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    My first car was a green buick lasabre that I got from a relative. It was held together by duct tape and redneck engineering, and wasn’t even supposed to make it through high school. As a condition for receiving the car, I had to continue calling it the green hornet. Ever since, my cars have been named after a famous movie vehicle. My current car is a blue civic, so naturally I had to name it the bluesmobile

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    My last car was named Alice after the “Alice in Chains” mix cd that was left in the cd changer when I bought it.

    My current car isn’t named, because I think it might be cursed and I don’t want to give any more power to it.

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      Haha, I was reading through these and realized we both named our catch a rides after a borderlands theme. Mine is Hyperion, or hype for short.

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    My first car was named “Safely”. Regardless of the quality of my driving, I was driving Safely.

    My current car is Carefully.

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    We own a VW Polo and called it Pollie. Then I got a newer Polo, company car. We called it Marc, as in Marc-O-Polo

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    I had a black Citroen C4 I called Marxine, from Karl Marx plus making it sound feminine and french lol.

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    Huh. Naming a car, the model name of a completely different brand of car, a model which was contemporary with your car, would be very confusing to me.

    You can take cobalt

    “But you don’t have a cobalt.”

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      I do this on purpose, to annoy any friend who catches a ride with me.

      Walking up to my Ford Tempo, “I thought you drive a Cadillac?!”

      “That’s a nickname.”

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      The Cobalt doesn’t really sell where I live, at least I have never seen one. I had to duckduckgo it