E30 Zone

As per the title, have you named your car something?

If so, why?

Personally i haven't, it's just a machine in my eyes...

mine is called the ol girl or the three twenty five... shes sometimes called the shit box or the turd.

yeah, i've called mine a few choice names at times, none nice though

My e36 is affectionately known as the 'Barry Wagon'. My e30 supposedly has a name but is only ever referred to as the blue car.

Yeah, usually c*nt, bast*rd, wan*er, or any combination of the three, usually dependant on what/how much has gone wrong with it at the time.

powelly wrote:Yeah, usually c*nt, bast*rd, wan*er, or any combination of the three, usually dependant on what/how much has gone wrong with it at the time.

What he said!

me and a friend both bought e30 325's to track so currently known as thelma and louise....

Nope, but i sometimes call my Mrs DAF(t).

My H36 is called Hettie, apparently.

My bm is called billy the beemer (s**t I know)

My project escort cab is called cosby (coz it thinks it's a cosworth.......it's got a personality disorder)

My daily escort cab is called s**t heap/f***ing pile of poo and so on and so on x

320i Touring= The Kiev Express, on account of it being driven to there (or the Mistress as I spend all me time and Money on it...)

325i= Gatwick Shuttle (the plane I caught to collect it) or the Autoschlaaaag based on its performance on the 2008 zone roam..

535i= the 5

Bitza Shlagggggg is her name.

Mine is the Alpina, mums KA is called the mouse and dads is the bardge.

Mine's just ''the touring'' although it's turning into a money pit comments from my friends make me smile.

''Why dosent this old thing rattle when my 3 year old clio does'' was a good one


The escort i had was either the Escrote, shed, turd, the SI (on the very few occasions it did me proud) or the scrapper...... bag of crap that was but was good on fuel for a 1.8.

My brown 325i was called "Brown", my maroon 740i was called "Maroony", my red touring is called "cunt", my red 325i project car is called "Reddy", and my green Honda Civic is called "Arthur"

Mine is called the FUCR - the plate is F ### UCR
(spotted by gooner1 iirc)

i've only given 1 car a name.
i called her avril,her reg was avr.
look what happened!

I dont know or work with any one who has a BMW so the guys at home call it "The Bimmer"


Mart.

I call mine 'my baby',except for last week when it took me two and a half days to fit a scorpion back box to it....i'm not joking!

sihooker wrote:I call mine 'my baby',except for last week when it took me two and a half days to fit a scorpion back box to it....i'm not joking!

thats nothing, it took me a year to fit a new clutch.

Never had a bad word said about my car. But she has been know to be called the 'Old Girl' now and again...

A friend of mine told me I had to give my car a German Girl's name, so the name 'Heidi' has since stuck.....

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thats nothing, it took me a year to fit a new clutch.[/quote]

My bird calls the touring, 'Ashes to Ashes', as she feels like she's goneback in time to the 80's. I just refer to it as the Red Shed.

Mines just called the BM,the 5 on the other hand tends to be The Shed,the Corsa has yet to be named,maybe The Egg,the last three letters are basically French for egg according to the missus.

Why do you all think that E30s are girls / women? My Mother owns and has owned cars that are 'girls / women'. But E30s..........

During its gay phase, my car was called Sebastian. Now it doesn't have a name

i only name them when they die

so i can remember them

eric, brutus, ned, rolf and the metroid.

lancia, m3, e36 compact, mk2 golf and my metro respectively.

the girlfriend names all of our cars.

her mx5 is daisy
the e30 is roger
the jag was called winston
just bought an e36 touring, no idea what she has in mind for that.

Ours is just usually "The Bimmer" or "The Touring", although we did also give it a joke name that our friends tend to use: "The Sheriff". The reason? When we bought it, it was as rusty as a sheriff's badge...

nickso wrote: the e30 is roger

Good choice

The Gold One, The Convertible One, The Silver Driveway Ornament. Although I more often use the last 3 letters of the reg to differentiate.

And if your car has a person's name, you need to get out more.

beemerbird wrote:Why do you all think that E30s are girls / women? My Mother owns and has owned cars that are 'girls / women'. But E30s..........

During its gay phase, my car was called Sebastian. Now it doesn't have a name

I will resist giving the steriotypical male answer to your question Fi, but as for car names, i,m not sure how " i,m just nipping out to give Sebatian a good service " would be met.

Right now its name is unprintable!!

gooner1 wrote:

beemerbird wrote:Why do you all think that E30s are girls / women? My Mother owns and has owned cars that are 'girls / women'. But E30s..........

During its gay phase, my car was called Sebastian. Now it doesn't have a name

I will resist giving the steriotypical male answer to your question Fi, but as for car names, i,m not sure how " i,m just nipping out to give Sebatian a good service " would be met.

It only really made sense in an 80s way when it was behaving like a shirt lifting tart and the song by Steve Harley was playing