Vroom vroom!

Whatcha gonna name it?

Hmm, I've never named a car. It's red, so what do you think?

We had a used 1989 Taurus before the current car. It was fine till the tranny went. Workhorse of a car and it was old enough you didn't have to worry about small scratches, etc.

It's boxy enough that you can get away with calling it Tardis....it is red, you know...and, it's a much better name than one of ours which was "Aldert Root". (don't ask)

Hope it give you the freedom to do all kinds of neat trips!

My one and only car was red. A Ford Festiva. (No, not a Fiesta.) I named her Dolly Francine Ford Festiva. Francie for short.

My mom has a Honda Fit (red) named Imelda.

My dad has a red pickup truck. He calls it "the truck."

Other car family names: Lily, Bess, Sha-na-na The Blue Buick Of Happiness, Snowflake, Clementine.

I used to drive a Taurus, known in the UK as the Mondeo. Beautiful car. My ex-husband got it in the divorce, although I paid for it :-(

I ended up with the Escort, but that's fine, it gets me around and at 11 years old it still has only 60,000 on the clock. It has no name, it's just a car.

I've been seriously thinking of getting a new car, what with the deals and 0% financing they're offering. I probably won't though.

I've never really named cars, but the first new car I bought was a 1990 Honda Civic hatchback Si. It was red. I called it the little red rocket. Now I have a 1999 Honda CRV. It's silver, and Silver rides around in it. It doesn't have a name.

Congrats on the new wheels! I didn't have much luck with my Taurus (in fact, it was the car that made me vow to never drive an American car again), but the good news was that every problem I had with it was cheap and easy to fix.

And it does need a name. My first car was a black Olds Calais named Black Betty. That was followed by a Taurus named Betty Ford and a Mazda Protege I called Kitty Carlisle. Our Toyota was Kirk Camry. Our Prius, McFly. The Passat wagon has, oddly, never been named.

I spent much of my youth herded into a mammoth blue Suburban dubbed Babe The Big Blue Ox.

My Scion XB is The Flying Toaster and my bright yellow Super Beetle is The Duckling.

My family has always named their cars. Blanche Devereaux is my gold-colored Focus. It's an ex-rental. Promiscuous!

My previous car was the Wonkavator, so named because it could actually go in reverse! Unlike the car before it, Murphy. The Law was strong with that one.

my bright yellow Super Beetle is The Duckling.

CAR ENVY

My black 2008 Pathfinder Offroad is The Beast. Just a bit ironic as it is a midsized SUV. I bought it for a video project to the Artic Circle (no, not the hamburger stand) that evaporated not long after the acquisition.

Best car I've ever owned, hands down.

Hey, so why not call your car Red Bull?

Hey, so why not call your car Red Bull?

That's awesome.

I've never named a car either, but congrats on the wheels, Ardiril! Remember my partner's old wagon that ran for gazillions of miles was a Taurus (re-branded as a Sable, but it was a Taurus) so yours should run for quite awhile.

The first car I owned was a green 1973 Super Beetle. It's name was The Frog. The only other named car the family had was a 1964 1/2 Mustang that my aunt drove off the show room floor (it was later given to my grandmother who, after several years, sold it to my mother; it was to be mine but the engine died and we hadn't the money to repair it). It was named Penny due to it's licence plate number: PEN 378.

The mister and I now own a 2008 Nissan Versa hatchback in dark grey. I have no idea what to name it.

PS: Gratz on the wheels, Ardiril!

A used red Ford Taurus can only be Maureen.

Yay car!

the tardis is blue...

My blue Ford Escort was "coche". I never really named it, but I do name my computers/hardware. Monster the 19" Dell Laptop, Terra Byte the tera-server, and Baby, the tiny laptop I have yet to own.

I had a friend name her car "Lola". Good for a red car.

I suggest "gingerminge".

In days of yore, which is to say the 1990s, I had an Amigo named "Taz" (mainly because it came with actual licensed Taz mudflaps). I wrecked it on Lake Shore Drive -- crazy IT schedule, not enough sleep.

Haven't really named any other vehicles I've owned. I had a Pathfinder after the Amigo but couldn't really come up with a name.

If there's more than one vaguely similar car in the family names can be beneficial. We had a beige minivan that was "the tan van", making the others "the red van" (and white and blue at other times). Mostly we just called them by the marque, i.e. "the Voyager", "the Concorde", "the Volare (oh oh oh oh)".

Let me be the first to invite you to join Taurus Car Club of America. If you're going to do any of your own work, or want to learn about the car, or want to know what the mechanics are doing to it and why, this is a good forum to learn everything about the car.

Mrs. Doohickie's Taurus just passed 108,000 miles and is still running strong.

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I used to drive a Taurus, known in the UK as the Mondeo.

Actually the Taurus is slightly larger than the Mondeo, which was sold for a few years in the 1990s as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique.

I miss having a car. I have a cute little Dodge Neon that needed a new battery soon after I bought it, but since then has been great. It's in storage in my mom's garage. I found it hard to keep it here in NYC. Ended up just moving it from one side of the street to the other for alternate side parking days. Then someone broke into it, twice, by bending the driver's and passenger's side windows back. Feh. It cost $400 to fix. Back into storage it went. But I do miss my car. Enjoy yours!

I was in Madison once. Our U. of Michigan concert band played there. I remember it being rather cold and brown (it was winter). Sure you wouldn't rather hit the beaches in northern Florida? The gulf coast looks quite inviting, especially this time of year. Or St. Augustine. Such a pretty place. Or is Florida too cliche?