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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:04 am

I've never done it (not sure wether I should be embaressed or not :oops: ) but I know some people have winkeye , trying to think up a name for the 320iSE.

What have you named yours?
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:05 am

Ive called mine many names, none I would repeat on here though!
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:09 am

My old 320iS was called Bert. Only because my previous car, Rolf, had a name... :wink:

Mind you, Rolf was a J plate black Mk2 Golf Ryder 1300cc 4 speed slammed demon! :twisted: lol - it actually had a personality and could drive itself!
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:21 am

My Rieger is called the Booty wagon, but i didn't name it that. It was Zoners who did. Cant remember who started it though :wink:

G i'm here if you wanna talk about it :D
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:26 am

Ben... thanks bud. Will confide in you at Gaydon! :wink:
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:30 am

i thought only women did this? :D
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:31 am

mine usualy end with names related to the plates on them

not by me but by the mrs so that i know what car she,s moaning abiout at the time lol

eg A2 plate A2XDM

BMA PLATE BMA 563S

the only names i give em are usualy when working on them and rarely repeatable on here :?
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:33 am

What about Betty?
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:34 am

Geeman wrote:What about Betty?
Betty was named by lee

pre Daz ownership :wink:
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:36 am

my mum calls it the Tub

I called her Jordon cos she always has her top off winkeye
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:39 am

TW166Y wrote:i thought only women did this? :D
What he said.
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:43 am

cliffybabe wrote:my mum calls it the Tub

I called her Jordon cos she always has her top off winkeye
great stuff :D
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:56 am

316 - lil slag
318is - slag

reasons, well they are both track slags, :mad: :mad:
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:57 am

Her indoors named Betty, it came from the Tom Jones song Black Betty, but she was known as Bad betty


whooaaaa Bad Betty.......etc

I'll get me coat :roll:
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The soarer was kind of named Sumo, on account of the size & weight of the damn thing, but really it is just called "the soarer" but perhaps it should be named Oliver Reed on account of the thirst
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:54 pm

people at work call her the minta or the beeeeeema. i call her the ''old girl'' or the motor works. i talk to her aswell, ask how she is if i havent driven her for a few days.... and before you all ask... no she dosent answer back! well she does when i turn the key(never lets me down)
if i was going to name her by the plate it would be H677hct so it would be hackett as in hackett-london.
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:57 pm

e30bmlover wrote:people at work call her the minta or the beeeeeema. i call her the ''old girl'' or the motor works. i talk to her aswell, ask how she is if i havent driven her for a few days.... and before you all ask... no she dosent answer back! well she does when i turn the key(never lets me down)
yeh ive been known to talk to mine on occasion

usualy along the lines of please work , please dnt ssnap etc etc winkeye

or you fookin piece of sh*t bstard cooont fookin twat of a car :cry:

i dnt have a lot of patience when things go wrong as you probably guessed :twisted:
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:41 pm

When it works, shes a darlin
and when she dont, shes a bitch!

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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:50 pm

whatever is appropriate at the time, at the moment oil whore
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:35 pm

the touring was nemo
the se was nemo the 2nd

original nemo was named by my m8 and it sort of stuck to the car and me

all my m8s call me nemo as well now
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:43 pm

E30 had been named "Debbie"
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:45 pm

my scooby was called the "blue flame" by my mates :oops:
i'll get my coat & shut the door behind me
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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:53 pm

BMW called it 320i Touring.
I just call it car. :lol:
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Post Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:57 pm

my mum calls it the Tub

I called her Jordon cos she always has her top off
You really shouldn't talk about your mum like that!! :o
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:44 am

minse is called the mistress,

cos last girlfriend said i spent more time and money on it than i spent with her...

no wonder, car never has headaches, always up for a drive,works 4 weeks outta 4, doesnt get frizzy hair and doesnt mind if your wearing odd socks
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:10 am

Theo325 wrote:
my mum calls it the Tub

I called her Jordon cos she always has her top off
You really shouldn't talk about your mum like that!! :o
:lol:
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:36 am

My touring has been named Bob (battered old bimmer) by my missus. Had a metro given to me by my missus' gran which she'd attempted to cover up some rust on the boot by bizarrely painting a big lightning flash on! Hence the 1L White Flash was born
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:28 pm

My 318 touring was the TUB as well. The reg ended in TUB and it was white - so its full name was the Tub of Lard....325 is white too - but TUB doesn't fit as well. Reg ends in UAX so it gets called the axe on occasions (only if its being good).
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:48 pm

I named mine Marion after my gran, she died just before i went to buy the car.
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Post Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:02 pm

Interesting thread fellas, I always wondered if a car should have a girls name or a guys name - would be interested in your views on this one. Steven King's Christine comes to mind as does the mustang in 'gone in 60 seconds' (can't for the life of me remember its name now - Geraldine or something). Anyway, I'm an Aussie, so my E30 325i is named after the '3 Bruces sketch' from Monty Python - yeah you guessed, its called Bruce... :mad: My E30 M3 is called Max - which theoretically could be a guy or a girls name, but is derived mainly from 'Mad Max'. :roll:
Cheers! Tim.