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MINI May

An ode to one of my favorite manga characters Minnie May of Gunsmith Cats. She's spunky and slightly disobedient, so it fits well.
Thought about naming her Tardis due to being Hyper Metallic Blue, and MINIs being so much bigger on the inside, but to me that's a very male name, and she's definitely a she to me.
Also thought about Sparky, also because of the color. Lots of fond memories of playing Mario Kart Double Dash drunk in college, and shouting out "BLUE SPARKS!!!" when hitting the apex of the curves just right. Fitting due to the go-kart handling.

 

I named it MIMINI becase I dunt no how two spel.

 

Still looking for a name for my clubbie

 

Guess....

 

Our MINI has taken us places we would never have otherwise gone. On one such motoring adventure we heard it's name spoken and the rest, as they say, is a more expensive license plate.

 

Edge Case? Too many names. . .

I have gone through 3 names that I can remember for my Metallic Hot Chocolate Fun-mobile:
Tootsie - too girly :blush2:
Cocoa - too boring :arf:
Cadbury - almost stuck (had the chocolate tie-in) but WAY to refined for the JCW kit under the bonnet :crazy:
Lastly, and I promise not to change it again unless I hear something from Warner Bros.:
TasMINIan DeVille or just "Taz" or "Devil" or "TD" :cornet: - the car actually looks like him! And I like the speed connotation -- cuz its freakin fast! I just hope it never starts sounding like him :eek6:.

 

Our is a BRG, so we named it Grasshopper!

 

GREYLENZ

I'm GreyLens and the car is GREYLENZ.

The Grey Lensmen were the main characters in one of the earliest science fiction stories written. The books were authored by "Doc" E. E. Smith...the first one published in 1934. Many/most of the cool ideas in Star Wars, Star Trek and many other scifi sagas originated with Doc Smith's books. I figure if a Gray Lensman was assigned a mission on present day earth he would select a MINI JCW in silver with minimal exterior accoutrement and beef it up a bit to address any need for high speed street driving.

 

Mine is Mico (obviously short for Mini Cooper), which started as a placeholder name until I came up with something better. But it's kind of stuck for some reason. I guess I'm not as creative as I used to be.

 

Towel handy?

 

Nice!

 

A frood who really knows where his towel is.

 

My name is Ina (pronounced EEna), my MINI's name is INAMINI. Named before I even saw her.

She has a Europlate from the Netherlands on the front.

 

EggMINI

Well as you can see from my screen name, which was goven to me by a friend when we were in high school. It just came out one day. needless to say i have used it as a call name and as my screen name since the internet started. Now my daughter like to put Egg in front of her , my wife and EggMax our dog so it was only natural to call him EggMINI:idea:

 

Googled "create your super hero/villian name". The program asked for parameters, which I gave as "Fast, Boy, and Car". TURBITO was born.

 

Nigel Blue

Yes..."Nigel Blue".

I posted this on MINI2, a bit more explanation for a UK audience:

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Our new MINI is already named: Nigel Blue. Why so? It started with my alter ego, a source of a lot of humor at our place, a typically-American British stereotype named "Nigel Fairthorpe". This character was sort of "assigned" to me in some sense: growing up in America during the "muscle car" era, I bucked the trend and drove small cars, Fiats & VWs. I spent quality time in, and could extol the virtues and foibles of, most of the British cars of the era as well: MGBs, MGB GTs, Midgets, Triumph Spitfires, TR3s,TR4s, TR6s, GT6s, Morris Minors, Austin Americas, MG 1100s, Austin Healey 100-4s & 3000s. And whose dad owned a Hillman? So I became known as the resident "foreign car" expert, Nigel Fairthorpe, likely to be prone to dashing about in a tweed jacket, wool flat cap, and leather driving gloves, smoking a full-bent briar of Dunhill Standard and clicking off expert heel/toe downshifts as I made good time through the countryside. Yeah, I was that guy.

Fast forward [many] years.

So when purchasing a made-in-Oxford MINI, it had to be "Nigel". During the decision-making phase, I built 10-15 different MINIs, so at any one time I'd have "Nigel Black" (black with chrome/silver), "Nigel Fast" (a JCW), "Sinister Nigel" (all black), etc. Once I spotted an Ice Blue MINI at the dealer, I was hooked, and that led to "Nigel Blue", that was just built this past week and is waiting at Southampton to come "home". Due here a month or so from now.
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SMOG's name

I have owned many cars over the years but never 2 of the same kind at the same time, so it must be a group of MINI's since we own 2. I also never leave a car stock so I decided SMOG was for Special Mini Operations Group.

2011 MCSa

2009 MCa

My Rides over the years

So that is how SMOG was derived.

 

Well growing up i have always been the odd kid, wait, I still am. I have been gifted with a wonderful imagination just like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. My cars previous to the mini had character but never recieved a name. The Mini makes me feel like it is my imaginable friend that I can just go have a good time with and leave the real world behind.

Now if I can just get my wife to paint it orange!! :ihih::biggrin5::ihih:

 

I'm still trying to work one out. I think MiniMoi is going to stick. People ask what I have and when I tell them they say that is so you.

 

Mine is the Angry Hamster and it's derived from the show "The Young Ones" for those that remember; Vyvyan had a pet hamster named Special Patrol Group or SPG (which was my first choice) and it just stuck. Works because my g/f drives a VW Rabbit aka The Bunny.