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Is your car/s a he, she or just an it? Every car I've owned has always been referred as 'she' apart from my old splitty which was always a 'he'. Anyone else as daft as me or am I just weird?   |
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I do use the term she when I'm talking about my cars, i am a bit strange though
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My Moggy is he, my daily is she. My R1 mini was unprintable.
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New cars. Who needs em.....
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My Moggy is he, my daily is she. My R1 mini was unprintable. Must admit I had a mk3 escort estate that known as the c word |
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mikeymk
Part of things
'85 Polo Coupe S 1.6 16v
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I feel sorry for it when it's broken, and it's my friend when I'm out in it.
But it's still an it. It's just a piece of junk and any sentiment is just a reflection of how the mind works.
But it's my piece of junk. And my crazy mind.
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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It's just a piece of machinery to me. Admittedly a nice piece of machinery that I'm quite attached to, but I wouldn't give it a gender any more than I would my fridge.
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I've never understood why people assign genders to their cars, it doesn't have genitals so it's an 'it'!
Whenever I hear someone refer to a car as a 'she' it instantly makes me think that they are not a car enthusiast or at least have never got into the nitty gritty of the mechanicals of a car.
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Well cars have always been refered to as she's in my family, so thats where i got it from. And we do all the nitty gritty stuff to ours Goliath.
To be honest at least once a month something decides to break so maybe thats why!
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-70 2.8 Daimler Sovereign (family owned since 1971)
-76 Triumph Stag 'Old Grumble Guts'
-81 VW Golf GLi Cabriolet
-82 MG Metro Turbo
-83 VW Polo Formel E Hatchback 'Phybe'
-91 VW Polo GT Coupe 'Geraldene'
-91 VW Passat TDi GL Wagon
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PHUQ
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Traditionally, every (steam) railway locomotive is female, regardless of name, as is every ship.
My van arrived with a name (in tasteful mock chrome letters across the leading edge of the bonnet no less) and as such is a "he".
Mud is always "she", no idea why but she is. I've a lot of (irrational) emotional attachment to this car, which may explain it.
The saloon hasn't adopted a name (nor any particular attachment, despite or possibly because of it being a much nicer car...) and as such is an "it".
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bortaf
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I've never understood why people assign genders to their cars, it doesn't have genitals so it's an 'it'! Whenever I hear someone refer to a car as a 'she' it instantly makes me think that they are not a car enthusiast or at least have never got into the nitty gritty of the mechanicals of a car. What you on bout willis  i spend all my time shoving a knozzle into a hole and filling it with gogo juice, that makes em female  |
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It's always having a hissy fit of some sort, so she's a girl.
A very ugly girl.
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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All my cars have always been a 'she' as they're moody temperamental bitches!
My little 400E pickup is a 'he' tho :/
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lewis
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Always it.
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bazzateer
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Imping along sans Vogue
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The White Imp is a he.
The Singer Vogue is called Madge so definitely a she.
The other Imp ..................... hmmmmmmmm.............. hermaphrodite? Not decided on that one yet.
318is is too pretty to be a he.
320i Touring ........ pretty sure it's an it.
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport
1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2
1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome
2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily)
2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily)
2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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VIP
South East
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It's an it.
Assigning a gender is weird. Naming your car is just plain odd.
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Little Blue (Renault 5 ) is a boy, because he's blue.
Dorry (VW Bora) is a girl. Because Dorry is a girls name. No other reason, haha.
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luckyseven
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Owning sneering dismissive pedantry since 1970
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he/she or it?luckyseven
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Ever since my first memory of cars (the family baby blue Beetle called Suzy Q) cars have all been people. Anyone who doesn't name their cars is clearly suffering some kind of inability to connect with others. I pity them, poor sad things Oddly, when I first got my '85 Rex I thought it was a boy, but pretty soon she showed herself to be very much a girl. Not necessarily in a negative way, although she did try to catch fire and kill us both one time... Anyway, fortunately I'd already named her after Melanie after an early long trip in her with Leftover Wine on the stereo, so it was OK that she turned out a girl  |
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Whenever I hear someone refer to a car as a 'she' it instantly makes me think that they are not a car enthusiast or at least have never got into the nitty gritty of the mechanicals of a car. That's quite a poor assumption to make of a person to be honest |
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cianha
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aka VDubbin
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Most of my cars have had neither appellation nor gender assigned to them.
Mx5 was an "it". Never even had a name.
Iggy Sport was a "he". Rocky the Randy Terrier, such was his unshakeoffability on back roads.
La Trabiata's definitely a lady. It's a "character" thing...
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Last Edit: Feb 6, 2015 14:47:42 GMT by cianha
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taurus
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Well I touched something underneath this morning and it squirted everywhere - so I dunno
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