Now then, the Younger Mrs S. is finally getting a 500. Her Cinquecento Titch needs a spot of welding under the sub-frame and parts are getting scarce, so probably to be pensioned off.

500 is a white 2013 1.2 Pop with the red and ivory seats she likes. I'm going to fetch it (and pay for it) on the weekend.

To resolve an argument.. the beast is going to have a name (stop reading now, if your life is joyless and miserable and you think it's stoopid to give cars names.. )

Since Yours Truly is fetching it, paying for it and driving it all the way from Milton Keynes, then I'll probably think up something original for it (something like Enzo or Bella, since the beast is Italian, just born in Poland)... but the Younger Mrs S. is a bit moody and will probably want to give it a name herself. I'm worried it will be known as Fifi or Rasputin or something. She once had a car called Battleship Potemkin. I have to nip it in the bud.

Who, in the vox populi that is the Fiat Forum has the naming rights? Yours Truly, or 'er indoors (appreciating that my supply of nookie and cooked dinners might diminish.. but happy to swap some of that for the deathly cold silence.. until she stops sulking at least).

What's the gig? Me or her?

You obviously have naming 'rights', but since you will probably be ignored anyway...

I call my white ones Blondie, the blue ones Sylvia (Sylvia Crystal) as they are a bit blue and the red ones the Red Devil.

This thread reminds me of the Renault ads from the eighties.

We have a white 500 with red seats and she is called Bella. We also have a 1994 Punto Cabrio called Bertie. My Jaguar XK8 doesn't have a proper name, it is just known as the beast! I also have a 1972 Renault 17 TS which I am restoring. It doesn't have a name yet, but once it is back on the road I will understand its character and it may gain a name.
It's interesting that all our Fiats have always had a name, perhaps it is their character, whereas other cars we have owned have just been cars, although I did once have a Renault 5 called Lillybille.
Have you noticed that Volvo owners don't give their cars names, or refer to them as cars, they always refer to them as The Volvo. Meet one in the pub and they will refer to a trip out in The Volvo, or the bag is in The Volvo.

renaultvation said:

We have a white 500 with red seats and she is called Bella. We also have a 1994 Punto Cabrio called Bertie. My Jaguar XK8 doesn't have a proper name, it is just known as the beast! I also have a 1972 Renault 17 TS which I am restoring. It doesn't have a name yet, but once it is back on the road I will understand its character and it may gain a name.
It's interesting that all our Fiats have always had a name, perhaps it is their character, whereas other cars we have owned have just been cars, although I did once have a Renault 5 called Lillybille.
Have you noticed that Volvo owners don't give their cars names, or refer to them as cars, they always refer to them as The Volvo. Meet one in the pub and they will refer to a trip out in The Volvo, or the bag is in The Volvo.

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"The Beast"... That is its name.

Interesting about the Renault.. I agree that you need to know the car before you can work out what name suits it.

When we was thinking of baby names for our daughter... much to the Younger Mrs S. chagrin I wouldn't decide which name I prefered until I had seen the child.

It could have been worse. We were proper stuck for a boy's name, so we tossed a coin for it. Younger Mrs S. had a preference, whereas my choice was "the name of the first player to score" in a league match, on that Saturday.

Luckily Roberto Firmino tucked one away for Liverpool... after Salah had hit the woodwork. It might not have gone down to well at the church Christening, naming the lad "Mohammed".

Looks like the Younger Mrs S. might have first dibs on her car though.. (2 votes to 1). I hope she doesn't go all Lord of the Rings on me. I can just see the beast might get called Boromir or something...


Ralf S.