Silly I know...but I am getting quite attached to mine. When referring to it I call it the V......"So, you want to take the V out tonight or your car?" My boyfriend just calls it the Honda. Just curious to see if people are nuts like I am.
tayjenn
I call it "The CR-V". When I got it, I had "The Integra" ('92), the "The Honda" ('96 Accord), and the bimmer which my wife calls "Gidget". I sold the Acura, so we were down to "Honda", "Gidget", and "CR-V". Then a couple of weeks ago, I got rear ended in the Accord and it got totalled.
Now, I may change it from "The CR-V" to "The Honda". Time will tell.
Now, I may change it from "The CR-V" to "The Honda". Time will tell.
Car Names
The trouble with naming your vehicle is that it creates heart ache when it is time to part with it. My wife loved our recent departed mini van Vincent Van Go and was insisting that we keep it forever. The van had reached the age of Jean Claude Damn Van in maintenance costs and I was trying to find a way to ease the pain of parting. I was looking at a 2007 EX in Nighhawk Black Pearl. I fell in love with it, but I could barely get her to sit in it. (This is the the first time since 1970 that I have feel in love with vehicle, the rest of the vehicles had the excitement of buying a washer machine). My wife is a Pirates of The Caribbean fan and as we were leaving At The Worlds End, it struck me, call the new CR-V the Black Pearl. That helped. When I decided to buy the car, I bought a black pearl pendant necklass. The first time my wife sat in the car, I told her to open the upper glove compartment. There was the black pearl pendant in a small black box. That helped too. I am still in the doghouse for getting rid of her beloved Vincent, but she is coming around.
Only have had the car two days and I love it with exception of the headlights on low beam (did they put shades on top of the headlights) and indeed the arm rests are terrible. I will say that Vincent was a far more comfortable vehicle, sort of like an old shoe.
The trouble with naming your vehicle is that it creates heart ache when it is time to part with it. My wife loved our recent departed mini van Vincent Van Go and was insisting that we keep it forever. The van had reached the age of Jean Claude Damn Van in maintenance costs and I was trying to find a way to ease the pain of parting. I was looking at a 2007 EX in Nighhawk Black Pearl. I fell in love with it, but I could barely get her to sit in it. (This is the the first time since 1970 that I have feel in love with vehicle, the rest of the vehicles had the excitement of buying a washer machine). My wife is a Pirates of The Caribbean fan and as we were leaving At The Worlds End, it struck me, call the new CR-V the Black Pearl. That helped. When I decided to buy the car, I bought a black pearl pendant necklass. The first time my wife sat in the car, I told her to open the upper glove compartment. There was the black pearl pendant in a small black box. That helped too. I am still in the doghouse for getting rid of her beloved Vincent, but she is coming around.
Only have had the car two days and I love it with exception of the headlights on low beam (did they put shades on top of the headlights) and indeed the arm rests are terrible. I will say that Vincent was a far more comfortable vehicle, sort of like an old shoe.
Kermit
"I think the the black pearl is an awesome name though."
I owe that to Honda's paint namers. I also briefly considered bullbat which likewise is related to the paint name, but Black Pearl seemed more elegant.
Kermit was the name of our froggy looking 90 Ford Tempo, Kermit the Ford.
"I think the the black pearl is an awesome name though."
I owe that to Honda's paint namers. I also briefly considered bullbat which likewise is related to the paint name, but Black Pearl seemed more elegant.
Kermit was the name of our froggy looking 90 Ford Tempo, Kermit the Ford.
I've been kicking this idea around since I got my V at the begining of March. at first I hoped to find a name that started w/ V, for obvious reasons. Then I came to the realization that V was not the best letter in the alphabet to work with (play Scattergories for proof).
Anyway, I've always been one to do things that mean something, at least to me, so I brain stormed on a name and the other night while I was sitting outside looking at him it came to me...Harvey, or Har-V if you will.
The name has meaning to me in that his name sake is Harvey Dent, or Two-face, from Batman, for those that aren't familiar.
The name makes sense to me because the V is an everyday driver that I can take clients out with, still have enough room for all my work stuff, and 4 adults fit during the week. And when the weekend gets here I can go just about anywhere I want, I can throw the canoe on top or load it up w/ camping gear and be off to anywhere I want. Which also includes hauling a kitchen table and new TV this weekend.
I guess it would be fair to say the unbelievable versitility of this vehicle prompted the name.
Anyway, I've always been one to do things that mean something, at least to me, so I brain stormed on a name and the other night while I was sitting outside looking at him it came to me...Harvey, or Har-V if you will.
The name has meaning to me in that his name sake is Harvey Dent, or Two-face, from Batman, for those that aren't familiar.
The name makes sense to me because the V is an everyday driver that I can take clients out with, still have enough room for all my work stuff, and 4 adults fit during the week. And when the weekend gets here I can go just about anywhere I want, I can throw the canoe on top or load it up w/ camping gear and be off to anywhere I want. Which also includes hauling a kitchen table and new TV this weekend.
I guess it would be fair to say the unbelievable versitility of this vehicle prompted the name.
Like some of you all, I've always named my cars too. My first car, a 89 Nissan Sentra, was Sweetpea. Next, I had a 03 Tacoma, which my husband named Caroline. Now, my V is called Squeak. Coming from the truck, the V was more agile and being smaller could fit into tighter spaces, and my husband commented that it could "squeak" right into anywhere I took it. He was right, and I thought the name Squeak was cute, so it stuck. I'm in the process of getting personalized plates that say PGSQK (short for Pig's Squeak; my nickname is Piggy).
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