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      01-28-2012, 10:37 AM   #23
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boats have name,not cars.
Correct. Names are for boats and planes.

My car is called BMW, as in "Burns My Wallet".
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      01-28-2012, 10:43 AM   #24
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Correct. Names are for boats and planes.

My car is called BMW, as in "Burns My Wallet".
Clever thought that is

My first Z4 35i a e85 was called "The White Tornado"

The second Z4 30is a 89 was called "Bimmi"
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      02-01-2012, 08:56 AM   #25
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a frined named it, in my native language, but translate is "small turtle", i dont know how it sounds tou you but in greek language is rather funny..
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      02-07-2012, 02:50 PM   #26
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take a look at the avatar
as the ordered car (is said to arrive by may 2012) is gonna be orion silver
we will call it: The Orion
There was a science-fiction tv-series here in Germany in the 1960s and their "unbelievable fast" spaceship was called ORION
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      02-07-2012, 10:02 PM   #27
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take a look at the avatar
as the ordered car (is said to arrive by may 2012) is gonna be orion silver
we will call it: The Orion
There was a science-fiction tv-series here in Germany in the 1960s and their "unbelievable fast" spaceship was called ORION
Raumpatrouille Orion.
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      02-08-2012, 03:08 PM   #29
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      02-08-2012, 09:23 PM   #30
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I simply call it "The Z" and my X5 "The X".
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      02-08-2012, 09:49 PM   #31
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The Z4 the, "white car," and the 535 the, "gray car." Okay, she calls the Z, "Huevito (lil' egg)" sometimes.
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Correct. Names are for boats and planes.

My car is called BMW, as in "Burns My Wallet".


not only many cars have names

even trucks (take a look at the pic below (between the wipers and the volvo badge!))



btw: all the trucks of that company (huge fleet in england) have names
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I'll confess I do have a nickname for it: the Blue Pill.

Because it's blue, and very effective male enhancement.
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      02-09-2012, 07:52 PM   #34
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I have settled in on Snowzie after reading this post for several weeks. I posted earlier I thought my white Z looks like a snowball. Snowzie seems to work!
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