Best.Midlife.Crisis.Car.Ever! :p

I thought naming machinery after women was the pastime of lonely straight men...

I did... Not that you pay any attention to what I saw anyway. :rolleyes:

Oh, trust me... Gay men do it to!

So - riddle me this. Why do cars get girl names?

If straight men name their cars after women - I would have supposed that gay men would name their car after some hunky guy. or does it have more to do with the curves reflecting a woman's curves?

I guess it has something to do with ships being "she"s. It carries over to other forms of transportation too.

Traditionally, straight men, alone at sea, or on tractors all day, or sweating under cars, name their machinery after women. They carve mermaids on the bow and paint bombshells on their planes. They say "c'mon baby" while trying to get the machinery to purr. It makes sense.

I've never felt that machines were females to me. To me, cars don't purr, they growl, they roar. The smells of grease and exhaust, and the power and muscle concepts evoke masculinity in my mind. It's sexy, but for different reasons. I translate it into something sexy for me - which again, makes sense.

I'm surprised to hear of gay men that see their sexy cars as female. Interesting.

My first car, Bwanna Devil, was a boy

I work alone. My computers and various legal databases typically bear the gender neutral name "You f*cking piece of sh*t!"

I have a pretty white Mixmaster that will take your arm off. Boy or girl?

I called my Subaru Justy "Justine." It could not have been otherwise. Same with a Miata. The Dukes of Hazzard called their Dodge Charger "The General Lee." That, too, fits.