Merryl
Maroon Marauder
Mandy
The Manhattan Project
Myxo
Ulala (from Space Channel 5!)
Morticia
Helga
Gertrude
Selma
Carfo ;)
The Screaming Silence of Your Impending Doom (Sucka)
Shazza
Narelle

More later - BwhahahHAHAHhaha!

The purple headed warrior?

When learning to drive a manual transmission I found this phrase to be quite useful. It's pilfered from a very blonde, very southern girlfriend who got pulled over late one night enjoying a few hours military base leave. It helps if you work the accent and fan your bossom with your hand a little like you're about to faint: "Why Off-i-cer! It's just s-o-o hot, and I haven't driven a stick in so lo-ng."

That's why I suggest "the officer" as a temporary name. When you learn to love your stick you can amend the name to "the gentleman."

Otherwise whatever curse word / phrase you find yourself saying when you stall the thing in the middle of a busy intersection, always a classic for car names. :)

Manual... Man-wal... Manuel! Like in Fawlty Towers. After all, Basil Fawlty was always having to manhandle Manuel, because he wouldn't do the right thing automatically. (Yes, I know, I'm sorry, it's a really, really bad, stillborn joke.)

Or 'The Manhandler'? There are, I think, a number of ways that could work.

And 'Maroon' fits quite nicely on the front of either of those. (What was it you always used to say? Beware of Gratuitous Alliteration? Anyway...)

Talking of gratuitous alliteration, how about 'The Maroon Manual [insert your surname here] Mobile'? A name that also works nicely with the fact that you're jointly owning it. And you can abbreviate it to 'The MM[surname initial]M'.

And on the theme of it's joint ownership, you could name it 'The [surname initial] & [surname initial] Mobile'.

Or just 'The M'? Could mean all sorts of things that way. 'The maroon car', 'the mobile', 'the manual marvel'...

Yeah, how about 'The Manual Marvel'? Or 'Maroon Marvel'? Or 'The Maroon Manual [surname initial] Marvel Mobile'?

Actually, come to think of it, can we submit regular expressions for this competition? /^(The )?(M.* )*(M.*)$/ ? Or would that be cheating?

Oh, and don't forget not to ride the clutch!

Or 'The Feisty Festiva'? Or would that work better as more of a description?

Wow! That is *exactly* the same as my friend's car! That's so weird.

Anyway, I think it should be Cherry something. Cherry Lips? Feel like being derivative? How about Cherry Bomb. Uh, not casting any aspersions or anything, it just sounds cool.

What about just Cherry? You could shorten it to Chezza for that true Okka touch. :-)

the scarlet pimple? oh dear. ignore that one.

The Castle
The Boat
The Emu
Gus (The Friendly Snail)
Croozer
Handbag
Lunchbox

My mum once named her car with the feminine version of the name of the dealer, i.e. Cecilia.

Surprised no-one's suggested The Shaunymobile. Actually, no.

How 'bout Winona?

Or Christine? :)

Jellybean

I quite like the idea of "Burgundy Boy", or perhaps The Manhandled Manual Maroon Manuel, just because there just ain't enough Fawlty Towers references going around, I find.

Actually, it's a Ford, ain't it? So why not simply "The Purple Bitch", or "Sir Starter-not".

Manuals aren't that hard to drive, once you get used to them. Well, they are, insofar as driving of any sort is difficult at the particular stage of L's that I'm in - but they're not *much* harder than autos. once you get used to the idea of going up a gear whenever you sense your engine's about to explode (and take the Mouat/Northbourne crossroads with it), and down a gear just one millisecond before you stall, it gets better.

Incidentally, can you warn me whenever you drive around Dickson or Belconnen? I'd like to watch - it's *so* comforting to see someone *else* do kangaroo hops :o)

Rollserskate
Grape Ape

oops. i mean Rollerskate.

I thought at first glance, that it was a red version of my Greenlee! (a 1997 Ford Escort). Greenlee, of course, is a character from the soap opera All My Children.

What about Miss Scarlett, like from the game Clue?

Bloody. As in Bloody Hard to Drive.

all behold the power of the...

pink hippo

what?!? stop laughing...

Eggplant supprise
Ford (what...it's a name!)
Bob (short for Plum-bob)
Cinco (It's a Festiva!)

ok...back to work

Hmmm, I like the Scarlett name the best...but then, I love Gone With the Wind. She looks a bit like a Rosie, too. Got that one from Lord of the Rings, you know. I'm a pervy hobbit fancier ;-)

The PenisMobile
Lozenge
Crimson Ghost
Aunt Flo
Dammit, It's Not Chardonnay
Suave Mauve
Burgundio
RedRum
Car Porn
Sex on Wheels
Carmine
The Maroon Goon
Infrared
Claret Chariot
Flushed Bus
Red Tape
Rouge

I kinda dragged out a thesaurus there at the end.

Florence. Florence Festiva.

And then when you stomp the accelerator, everyone in the car can shout GO FLO GO!

I like it.

How about the "cherry bomb"? Oh wait, I see someone else came up with it before I did.... how about the Red Rocket, or the Rocket's Red Glare (ugh, probably too American)?

Hubert McClunkClunkStall

Hubert McClunkClunkStall

That wasn't on purpose, I got an error message

Nice wheels! Sure you can pick up driving that thing around. I suggest "Squinky".

Fanny.

Bitchstick.

Patsy.

Mavis Mover.

Because, of course, it's a girl car. Definitely not male.

hehehe thanks guys! some of these are bloody hilarious!

how about "The Unknown" ?
theres a sense of mystery about it id say :)~

break off any and all logos attatched to the car...

Come, enter "The Unknown"

how about:
The Dragon (wataaah!)
Bruce (bruise - in that case:)
Bruiser
Compact
Jimmy (James too)
The CDC (center for... blah)
Purplish Viral Infection
Tic-Tac
KillerKong
[CHOOSE SYMBOL] - (the car formerly known as killerkong)
The Nasty Man (mr. Nasty too)
My Purple Vagina (uh oh)
Patience (song)
18 and Life to go (another)
Po Pimp (in') (another)
Tha Shizneit
GasCan
The SDO Express (shauny.org)
The SSSDoubleD Mobile (shauny's same shit diff day mobile)
MIA
IWAC (i want another car - pronounced IWOK - as in star wars)
Slow and Low
Got Purple?

ok, im out of ideas...

The hemorrhoid!

The Chiquitas' Festiva!

'Mister Diddler', 'cause you have to get yourself there manually?

It all makes The Bird and Golden boy sound rather tame, doesn't it?

And I can't believe Mattay said Carfo. Oh wait, I can.

Damn, someone already said Rosie.

Pox? ehehe I'm gonna name my kid that, someday.

Festy?

Canardly (as in a Rolls Canardly - rolls down the hill, canardly get up the next)

ok, I'm going now.

Milo

When I get my car that will be its name. Until then, I give the name to you.

How about "RU-BY ROD!"
You know, that crazy black guy from The 5th Element?
He's not exactly a blokish-guy, so it'd kinda fit for a girl-car.

1. Beetroot Betty
2. Jam Jalopy
3. The Raspberry Coulis

'kay, so I'm pretty hungry at the mo.

nads. then you can yell "go nads! go nads!"

probably one of the more pathetic suggestions, but how about 'the berry' or something? 'cause it's kind of berry coloured ..

Juicy Lucy

Moulin Rouge

Cherry Racer

Another one: Whaddabout Amelie?

Plumstick.

It's plum. And it's a stick-shift. Plumstick.

Carlotta
Marlene
Fozzie
Calliope (just in case you're skewing towards 'pretentious')
Flick
Squatter
Bedazzler (which I wouldn't name a car, but I would name something)
Salome
Rudolph
Cosmo

nads?! LOL!!!!

*puts on her threebrain.com voice*

gonads and strife, gonads and strife, gonads and strife!!

:-D

The Vindicator

or

Lady Margaret Deathstrike

or

Lady Petunia Salchicha (Salchicha is Spanish for sausage)

"Plum Crazy" (very USA, sorry..)
I've heard that the best way to learn to use a stickshift smoothly is to practice by letting out the clutch without using the gas pedal -- gives you a very good idea of where the clutch engages. If you're not careful you can burn out the clutch in an afternoon.
"Vin Ordinaire," for a Continental touch?

Maude
Lotte
Great Aunt Spagnum
Wilma
Betty
Nilson (Nils)
An Enigma Wrapped in a Plastic
Mr Darcy
The Slapper
Collette
Marmalade
The God Pheonix
The Firey Pheonix
G-Force
Little Miss Vroom Vroom
Little Miss Screaming Silence of your Impending Doom (sorry, I just like that phrase ;)

Muffin Rouge
Little Miss Muffin
Manual Muffin
Muffin the Mule
Stick Shiftin' Muffin
Little Red Muffin
Muffin

'Muffin''s good, 'cause then you can say, "Get in my Muffin!", "Got to wax my muffin," "My Muffin's wet today," "Just polishing my Muffin," "Got to get my Muffin warmed up before we can go anywhere," "Once I got into manual driving, I found my Muffin's got plenty of juice," and so on.

I think your readers have WAY too much time on our hands.

OMG Simon!

How about, Stupid Jerk?

Christ on a bun, can't think of anything that hasn't been expressed ^.
But since she has a vaguely latin name... perhaps something ssspicy like Juanita?

How about ?

The cruiser
Maroon Mama
Ball Buster
Meany Me
Turtle neck

My kid is calling me, so bye for now.

Festivus!
Or Car of Destruction
Pedro the panty merchant
or Festivus...

FESTIVUS! *lol* Nice one, Tyler. Maybe we can install a Festivus Pole in the car too.

Some really interesting names here, folks. Thanks! I have consulted with my sister and we've narrowed it down to a handful, but haven't quite been able to decide yet.

"The Screaming Silence of Your Impending Doom" is one of them though... right??

of COURSE, mattay :P

Regardless of what you call it now, I guarantee it will soon develop the name "Costly Piece of Crap".

Lady Margaret Deathstrike is my favourite so far. And Muffin. Decades of inuendo in that one.

What an inventive lot y'all are! Hell, it never occurred to me to name a car in the first place; it was always, "Wanna take my car or your car?" Altho, now that I think about it, they all eventually were named That Piece of Shit.

Best one on the page is "Mister Diddler" Because you have to get yourself there manually. LOL

Diddle Mobile

The Diddler

Red Shitbox

F!@#in' Piece of Crap American Car

Found on road dead (Ford)
Fixed or repaired daily

"Stick Appeal" Vroom, Vroom!

Rocinante.

Or Alice.

And why does everyone else in the world drive automatics? I only know one automatic driver here in the UK, and I hate the bloody things, having tried to drive my dad's once. Completely did my head in. Give me a stick shift any day.

How about Sticky Alice?

You know it looks like a red bean. so like, frijole. ole!

there's some really nice(?) names here *G*

PLEASE! post our "top 5" and let us see what you're thinking of name her.

(and your friends are just TO FUN!) (or is that FUNNY? :)

Berry-coloured was the first thing that sprang to mind, so here's my contributions:

Berrylicious
Bordeaux
Blackberry
Wildberry
Dewberry
Gooseberry

Sir's idea: Festy.

And he wants to correct Shrek and say they're made in Korea... at least the ones that make it to Australia are.

He came up with another one... Karma. For car, and the ma is like our Fo.

I guess my brand of weirdness runs in the family :p

Dare I ask what you had to do to get this car, and can I do the same?

Hi you!

I was thinking that maybe Betty would be a good name for your car.

You know...Betty Ford.

Oh well, that's my lame attempt anyway. What can you expect from somebody who calls their own car Bessie.

My only answer whenever someone asks for name suggestions for inanimate objects: GARY COLEMAN.

Hmm, I know it has been named already, but I would have suggested;

" sticky date "

How about:

OMG MY KNEE HURTS!
Or
Piece of Sh*T car? (i'd like to thank adam sandler)
ClutchMonkey?