My kids came up with...

Dora (the explorer). My son wanted to name it lightning and my daughters chose Dora. I personally don't care, but my wife went ahead and got a Dora sticker to put in the rear side window. So "Dora" is it's official name now, sigh.

 

Names are fun. Just remember, a van is not a person. It is an object, a tool, a machine. Get too emotional about a machine watch some strange behavior happen. Like you can see every day on some forums.

 

duly noted.

 

We fondly refer to it as "The Hog"

 

Sense there is a H on the Hood, rear hatch and horn button, it is either called His or Hers, depending on who is driving.....


But we both agree on one thing to call it....... EXPENSIVE.

 

WW's nickname will be edited!

I call mine, "your car." As in, "Honey, can I drive ... your car?"

My boys still vote for taking my truck. Even the 1 year old has a grin from ear to ear when I fire it up with just a straight pipe.

Personally, I only like the van because its a) safe, b) very versatile for my wife, c) it reduces the chaos as much as possible with 3 boys (i.e. RES).

If I had my druthers, my wife would be driving an H1.

- JyRO

 

Van

 

My van is named "Odie", like the dog in Garfield.

We name all our cars.
Otto - Pilot
Matilda - Outback
Robert Red Ford - Exploder
El Bolito - Acura Integra
Blue - Wife's Z28 in college.....yeah, it was dark blue

 

Our 04 was called "Ollie" the 06 is "The Silver Hornet" (ref: the Pink Panther movies)

AJ

 

Mini

 

I have a couple since 4 of my neigbors have bought one in the past week after buying mine. Hagning with the Jones is the the name of my community of six houses. One person gets a pool, we all got a pool. And sadly I fall right into sometimes. Ow well.

Ours - H8N-WORK Mobilee (those are our plates so the van became that name)

neighbors - Short Bus (how original)
Looser Cruiser (this cracks me up)
Silver Bullet (another real original)
Hank (I have yet to figure it out but that is what they call it)

What is your voices name? Ours is Betty. Not idea again but that is her name.

 

Ody always sound good, we refer to it as Ody or Odyssey.

 

Nickname for your Odyssey?

Most of our cars have garnered a moniker, I named our Odyssey "Barney" not after the purple dinasour but after the affectionate nickname given to the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft flown by the USAF. I have spent some time on the C-17 and it reminds me of the minivan...smooth, powerful, and can haul just about anything. It is high-tech as is the Odyssey, and when I drive it the Honda feel like I am flying a jet.

Sometimes my son jokes that I named the Odyssey after the drunk character in The Simpsons...

Although it sounds like something I would do, the Simpsons' Barney doesn't quite project the image I think of when I see my Odyssey!

So that's my story, what's yours?

Cheers! M2

 

Da Pangtze
("dah-pah-nnng-tsuh")

Roughly translates as Big Fatty. It comes from a nickname my friend's mom gave to me, which was Xiao Pangtze (Little Fatty...I've aways been on the chubby side). It seemed fitting for my Odyssey, especially after coming from an Integra.

 

C'mon now, don't be afraid to use the SEARCH button. We already have a thread for that.
**merged**

 

C'mon now, don't be afraid to use the SEARCH button. We already have a thread for that.
**merged**

Sorry, but I did a search and this thread didn't come up. Don't know why...:noo:

Cheers! M2

 

C'mon now, don't be afraid to use the SEARCH button. We already have a thread for that.
**merged**

Newb to this forum (pretty fluent with forums etc.) - I imagined there would be a nickname thread - and was glad to see this one pop up.

Thanks for the merge - but - I can't find the one you mention that you merged it with.

Maybe provide the link.

M@

 

Thanks for the merge - but - I can't find the one you mention that you merged it with.

Maybe provide the link.

M@

Huh ?

 

Can you please provide a link to the thread you said already exists for nicknames.

You say you "merged" this thread- but getting from this thread to that one is difficult. Without knowing the name of the thread or some keywords it is difficult to find it in a "search"

M@

 

Hello? The mod merged the threads. Now the posts that were in the new thread (started yesterday) are in the existing one started in August.

 

Hello? The mod merged the threads. Now the posts that were in the new thread (started yesterday) are in the existing one started in August.

Thank you.

Now, back to your regular program...VAN NICKNAMES

 

A thousand pardons - I thought maybe there was a much longer thread with nicknames.

We're toying with Marge as a nick name - we got the blue one, and it's big.

Doing some testing of some dev I was doing last week I called the first widget "Homer's Odyssey" - and then the next came natrually:
Lisa's Pilot
Barts CRV
Maggies Escort
Moe's Civic
Sideshow's Ridgline


M@

 

Out 2001 was Bertha, because my spouse gave birth to our second son in the front seat, leading to this, as now, highly dated Top 10...

Top 10 Signs that your Automobile is Labor-Ready

10. Passenger airbags that detects labor and depowers
9. Road rage regularly originates from passenger seat
8. Passenger seat: 8-way powered includes rolling meal tray table, and illimunated visor vanity which can be angled for monitoring fetal progress
7. Sturdy dual-passenger cup holders double as stirrups
6. Multi-purpose window scraper, squeegee, and forceps
5. Rational female voice and repeating chime remind you “it is not time to push…. it is not time to push”
4. Fan controls include Lamaze setting
3. Sharp door jambs handy for cutting umbilical cord
2. Paradise Block in ashtray
1. Yellow placard on rear window reads: “Baby un-Boarding”

 

Our depends on which voice the Nav is programmed to... I changed it to the male voice the other day. I think I like that better - never have enjoyed a woman telling me what to do.

I think we'll now call the Odyssey KITT. Maybe mount an LED bar on the front grill that marquees left to right to left.

 

The van.

The Accord is... the car.

Haven't really had any car names since the wife's "Screaming Blue Maverick" from her college days (a godawful ugly bright sky blue '72-or-so 4-door Maverick). It wasn't pretty, but it did yeoman's work for years.