Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Feb 18, 2013 17:37:29 GMT
Anyone else name their real-world cars after Transformers? Long time ago TM:UK helped me name my little White Peugeot 106. I settled on Runamuck. I then got a Mk.3 Fiesta, which I'm not sure ever got named - if it did, I suspect it was Cyclonus, because it was a slight purpley blue and I couldn't be bothered with discrepancies like Cyclonus not being a car. My next car was a Red Toyota Corolla SE (2000 model with the round headlights). This had a long sloping back so became Windcharger. I now have a new Red BMW 1-Series 5dr. The question is - what to name it? Cliffjumper? Chase? Lightspeed? Frenzy (or should that be Rumble)?  Flamestone? And what have you named your cars? Note to mods - dunno which forum to put this in? Seeing as some people, mainly the presenters of Top Gear, see cars as big toys, perhaps this is the right forum? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 18, 2013 18:18:19 GMT
Aw nice car, dude!
I haven't named any of my cars (which surprises me when I think about it). I've had my red Astra for, blimey, 8 years! She's great mechanically, Astras go forever (touch wood!) and I love her so, but cosmetically, hmm... probabily call her Empty or Junker!
Yours, Stom, I'd go for Prowl!
Not really! It's not a police car! (is it?)
What 'bout...
HOT ROD!!!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 18, 2013 18:20:05 GMT
Lightspeed I like too.
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 18, 2013 18:24:06 GMT
Red paint job, grill split in two like big nostrils... Razorbeast?
-Nick
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 18, 2013 18:52:06 GMT
Ha ha! Yes, excellent!
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Post by Toph on Feb 18, 2013 19:22:12 GMT
My car is a 2000 Chevy Cavalier. I neamed her Colbalt.
She's really really sick right now, too, and we're trying to figure out what's wrong with her.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 18, 2013 19:36:14 GMT
I just call them: Red Car, Blue Car, etc.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 18, 2013 19:46:23 GMT
Phil has owned three cars:
The first, in 1991, was a horrid pale green Astra. Written off in the accident in Jan 1992 but I'd dented both doors by then.
The second was a burgundy Fiesta aquired later in 1992. It too acquired dents in both doors and was involved in a "foot on wrong pedal" incident while doing a 3 point turn at the top of mky Mum's road that wrote off a Neighbour's car. Part exchanged c 2000 to get....
my third car, a British Racing Green Fiesta.... kept in pristine condition becaause early in 2002 I fell off a train twisting my ankle and dmaging something so badly that I couldn;t drive anymore
So Liz (when we got together, 10 years this April BTW) got me to go for a disabled driving assessment. "They'll sort you out with something so you can drive again" she said. I nearly carshed the hand control car on the test track, couldn't handle different co-ordination with each hand. They told me to hand my licence in.
Phil did not name any of his cars.
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Post by Toph on Feb 18, 2013 20:59:55 GMT
I had a toyota carolla before my cavalier. It was the most hideous shade of brown (All browns are hideous for cars), and it was older than I am. I did not name it. I did not connect to it. I did not even feel it was mine.
But my cavalier, I bought it. I picked it out. I paid for it, and it has over 100k miles on it, and I put them there myself. I've bonded with that car. Even though technically the toyota was my first car, I never felt like it. It was just a vehicle I was stuck in until I started making enough money to gemy true first car.
I don't know if I could ever move over seas, if it ment I had to give her up.
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Post by Stomski on Feb 18, 2013 21:13:39 GMT
If it's any consolation Phil, my 106 didn't die of natural causes either and my Corolla has several dings and scrapes too. So much so, I'm not sure I'll get anything for it past scrap value if I try to sell it because of the bodywork damage alone.
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Post by The Huff on Feb 19, 2013 10:51:33 GMT
My current car (and my faverouite so far) is an old Nissan Micra who I think of as Kup because it's an aqua-blue type colour like the Kup toy and it's also a rounded type shape a bit like the Generations Kup. Of course, I thought of it as Kup before that toy came out.
Older cars didn't really match up to any colour schemes (black then green) of any cars that stood out as TF characters.
Glad some one else has done this though.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2013 18:49:24 GMT
Never owned a car. Can't even legally drive and no urge to do so. I do quite like being taken for rides in other people's cars though! I'm just too fond of walking and public transport. If I lived in a rural setting I imagine a vehicle would be much needed if not essential.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 20, 2013 3:48:02 GMT
Essential is right. I personally cannot fathom what it must be like to live in a place like New York City, Tokyo, or London, where you can live a life without ever needing a car.
Texas sucks for public transport. I have to drive about fifteen miles to get to the nearest public transport access point.
Most people who do use Dallas' public transport system have to drive to get there.
And walking? Unless you're in a heavy, HEAVY urban area... and I'm talking nearly major metropolis level, you can forget about it. Rare are the sidewalks. We have almost no pedestrian infrastructure here in north texas.
Downtown Dallas is investing on major infrastructure to support cyclists, public transport, and walkers (Not the dead kind). But that really doesn't do much good for anyone outside of downtown. And the bicycle trail they built has become crime riddled. Or so the news would have us believe.
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Post by Stomski on Feb 20, 2013 11:14:37 GMT
Well, this derailed quickly!
I think I've settled on Chase. Sure my car isn't as sporty as a Ferrari Testarossa but it seems a good fit due to the black detailing. Lightspeed has too much white and Cliffjumper has a spoiler. Hot Rod is too futuristic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2013 12:27:51 GMT
nope
can't say that i've really felt the need to give a car a pet name
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 20, 2013 13:04:00 GMT
Well, this derailed quickly! I think I've settled on Chase. Sure my car isn't as sporty as a Ferrari Testarossa but it seems a good fit due to the black detailing. Lightspeed has too much white and Cliffjumper has a spoiler. Hot Rod is too futuristic. Razorbeast? |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2013 17:53:29 GMT
I am of the opinion that all cars should have a woman's name.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2013 18:28:31 GMT
Why?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2013 18:52:45 GMT
Lot's of action films, and exposure to people calling their cars "her" and "she".
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2013 19:14:46 GMT
I have to admit that I have never noticed this. Ever. Or perhaps you are delusional, Andu!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2013 19:19:03 GMT
Really. You are aware that Han Solo talks to the Millenium Falcon like it's a she.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2013 19:35:39 GMT
I have honestly never noticed that.
And that's a spaceship, not a car!
-Ralph
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Post by Marc Graham on Feb 20, 2013 20:18:30 GMT
I have now purchased my second car, I haven't named either of my cars (2002 VW Polo in Metallic Green and 2013 Skoda Fabia in Steel Grey)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2013 20:31:34 GMT
I have honestly never noticed that. And that's a spaceship, not a car! -Ralph Next you'll be telling me you've never noticed the dice! Admittedly not furry but.... |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2013 20:39:20 GMT
There's a dice?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2013 21:10:29 GMT
Gold ones hanging in the cockpit
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2013 21:13:29 GMT
I seem to have been very unobservant in my nth number of viewings!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2013 22:53:15 GMT
I'm starting to think you have never seen the films!!
Andy
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Post by Stomski on Feb 21, 2013 9:07:05 GMT
"She's fast enough for you old man"
Han's dice are news to me though. Apparently only in one scene before they take off from Mos Eisley?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2013 9:25:31 GMT
I think they're there in other scenes..... The Hoth launch where Han thumps the cockpit to start the ship springs to mind.
There is a disturbing lack of screencaps of them though!
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