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Did you give your Prius a name?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by Stringmike, Sep 19, 2006.

  1. robertm

    robertm Junior Member

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    I have had three cars ('78 Celica, '89 Camry, 2005 Prius) and they have all had the same name- Rosinante- because I have always been tilting at windmills.

    Rob



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  2. jhereg

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    I call mine Eva (after Eva Braun) because she's a little map nazi :p
     
  3. eclectcmoi

    eclectcmoi Muffinologist

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    I have too and let me just say how very pleasant and attractive those are to drive behind! I guess they have to advertise how big theirs AREN'T!
     
  4. nkcrowell

    nkcrowell New Member

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(robertm @ Sep 21 2006, 03:04 PM) [snapback]323023[/snapback]</div>

    My Prius is named Vera - because she cost as much as a Vera Wang designer gown. My last car, a Mazda Miata, was named Snoopy.
     
  5. Rancid13

    Rancid13 Cool Chick with a Black Prius

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    There was one sitting in our office parking lot yesterday and they were BLUE!!! I've seen bronze as well as black ones too... :blink:
     
  6. eclectcmoi

    eclectcmoi Muffinologist

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    As my dear departed mother would say... "Some people's taste is only in their mouth."
     
  7. nasafella

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    Yes, she's named Roxanne.

    My wife picked it. I think it fits my little Barcelona Red fun-mobile quite well.

    On the other hand, my (well, my wife's) black Land Rover Discovery (that I do drive off road and not just to the mall) is definitely male; sturdy, eager to please (and go out in the mud), kind of like a big ole black labrador retriever.

    His name is Boner. I picked that name. Or rather, it came to me and I realized I had no choice but to name him that.
     
  8. LMA

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(robertm @ Sep 21 2006, 04:04 PM) [snapback]323023[/snapback]</div>
    That's so funny because I named my first car, a 1973 Dodge Colt Station Wagon, which I inherited from my father when it already had 100,000 miles on it and was quite literally held together with duct tape and bailing wire because of all of the rust on the undercarriage, the Rosinante. But that's because it was the late '70s, I was in high school and a RUSH fan, and they had a song about flying a rattle-trap of a space ship into the black hole, Cygnus X1. (On another album, it comes out the other side on Mount Olympus and the pilot is made a god ...) It was *years* before I discovered that RUSH got the name from Don Quixote! LOL!
     
  9. Jerry P

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    Named mine 'Iris' after Iris Ovshinsky, who, along with her husband Stan, developed the NiMH battery that gives the Prius life. By the way, Iris Ovshinsky died in August at 79. We owe her a debt of gratitude for the work she did.
     
  10. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

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    Just got mine two weeks ago. In named it Tommy, short for "Tom Swift and his Electro-Mechanical Auto-Mobile".
     
  11. toad

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    My wife named ours Toad!

    Toad is silver pine mica (light green) and we think the horn sounds like a "ribbit".
     
  12. Newsmom

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    2004 Blue - My daughter, the first Prius driver in the family, named it "Spiffy", or more accurately someone at College called it that.

    2005 Blue - She talks, we named her "Agnes" I don't know why.

    2007 RED - Carmen - she speaks Spanish, (in addition to French and English) and is very flashy.

    As we've shifted around who drives which car, and because there are 2 blue ones, it's so much easier to refer to the vehicles by their "names".
     
  13. dandude505

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    I have named my prius Kermit, after a bumper sticker that I got at an alt energy fair. The sticker is Kermit the frog saying "It's easy being green!" Yes, I know, it is a ford sticker, but I like kermit.
    I have yet to decide if kermit is male or female... thoughts?
     
  14. Wetnabber

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    Mine is Rocinante
     
  15. Bohous

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    Yikes! Cosidering the way Pre met with his ultimate demise let's hope that you have not PREordained your fate!
     
  16. s.e.tx_parrothead

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    Maggie....but my husband calls her Bantering Betty. But what does he know, it isn't his car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  17. lchamp

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    Yeah, we name all our cars. Right now we have "van", "honda", and "prius". B)

    Cheers,

    Larry
     
  18. judymcfarland

    judymcfarland Queen of Moral Indignation

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    Fiona - Shrek's girl friend who turned a lovely shade of green in the evening.
     
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  20. acadiaphile

    acadiaphile Junior Member

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    Our Prius is referred to as the "gaiamobile" (as in "earth")
    Our Sienna is now the "folkswagon" (as in the vehicle when we travel with the whole family)

    (The Sienna replaced a Subaru Legacy Wagon which was the "mommymobile".)