[chattanooga240]

Originally Posted by AlpsRider

You must have owned a lot of fast cars!

Don't know about you, but they are not worth buying otherwise.

[MichaelL]

Bluebird. Because it is Estoril Blue

[Rayscott]

Blue Bimmer.

[elus1ve]

Flying Piggy

[BEM-S4]

GF thinks my car's name is "don't f*cking touch it" since that's how I refer to it in can I borrow it conversations

[megacondenser]

I used to call mine Speedbump or sometimes BoatAnchor, since that was how it felt when I drove it.

[Maynard]

Originally Posted by BEM-S4

..... My old 2002 Turbo was "Blue Steel" and the new one would have to be the same color (same "look") and go by "Magnum"

Did you and your friends also have a gasoline spray-fight at the pumps, a la Zoolander?

[BEM-S4]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Did you and your friends also have a gasoline spray-fight at the pumps, a la Zoolander?

Nope. We just raised some money for a school to teach kids to read good. Never went anywhere because after we hit our goal we realized we should have raised at least 3x as much and could only afford to build a school for ants.

[Amiliaus]

Polar bear, alpine white on black. My girlfriend drives an X3 that is black on tan ,Caramelo. They have only been together about 3 weeks (she hugged it). Every time we go out we decide which one to take and refer to either car by name. Ok I feel ridiculous now.

[ggggbmw]

Brigitta Thorstein.

Brigitta, because I liked the alliteration with baby blue beemer, with a German tone.

Thorstein, because my wife thinks it's the daughter of Veblen Thorstein, the economist who created the theory of Conspicuous Consumption.

My wife also refers to it as "your mistress, that bitch Bridget." <grin>

[Maynard]

Originally Posted by BEM-S4

Nope. We just raised some money for a school to teach kids to read good. Never went anywhere because after we hit our goal we realized we should have raised at least 3x as much and could only afford to build a school for ants.

Probably ran out of dough because you all insisted on getting a Dinan-modified 'school bus' with the sport handling package. I do like the idea of a school to read good - it could focus (fokus?) on the BMW manual of your choice, with advanced classes in how to use the search function online, and, of course, what oil to use.

[nikijack]

Curly.

[SlickShift]

Originally Posted by nikijack

Curly.

A la City Slickers?

[BEM-S4]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Probably ran out of dough because you all insisted on getting a Dinan-modified 'school bus' with the sport handling package. I do like the idea of a school to read good - it could focus (fokus?) on the BMW manual of your choice, with advanced classes in how to use the search function online, and, of course, what oil to use.

Yeah the stretch X5M stage 2 FBO w/ recaro car seats cost about a million all in. Should have gone another direction, once it was done we decided it was too nice for children after the first student tried to bring a juice box onboard. Apparently they can't read good enough to understand the no food or drink sign. We tried wrapping the children in plastic hazmat suits but legal had issues there. The dog crates we tried to employ were also frowned upon.

[USA-RET]

Plate Sez it all

[wjjkoevoets]

Grouchy Smurf

[DUSTOFF 46]

Betty

"Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)"

[///MZ]

My car is mineral grey, so I named it Jean. As in Jean Grey.

[808@702]

OK I will bite. Silver as in HI HO Silver away!!!

[Sir Thomas Bombadil]

Shadowfax.

My car is a crisp alpine white and is considered "the Lord of all cars." He is of the line of the Mearas, the greatest cars of Middle Earth, and is said to move faster than the wind.

Also, whenever I'm alone, I like to stomp on the gas and shout "Come Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste!"

[USA-RET]

^

Made me laugh out loud!

[BEM-S4]

Originally Posted by Sir Thomas Bombadil

Shadowfax.

My car is a crisp alpine white and is considered "the Lord of all cars." He is of the line of the Mearas, the greatest cars of Middle Earth, and is said to move faster than the wind.

Also, whenever I'm alone, I like to stomp on the gas and shout "Come Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste!"

Ha that's great. That would also be another solid thread, what do you say to yourself when you're in the car alone. I'm fond of "he's flat out through Gambon" when cornering or "turbo boost!" of Knight Rider fame. Also not alone but my standard reply to GF asking if I know where we're going is Doc Brown "where we're going we don't need roads"