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slothman86
06-27-2007, 08:44 PM
What is your car's name?

Mine's Peppy ^u^

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f17/HaymondDL/CAR/My%2007%20Yaris/peppy.jpg

Astroman
06-27-2007, 08:58 PM
LOL, that's the same thing I named mine! I got the idea the first time my mom got to ride in it. She said "Wow, it's peppy!" and it stuck. BTW, I named mine in august, when did you name yours?

slothman86
06-27-2007, 09:03 PM
LOL, that's the same thing I named mine! I got the idea the first time my mom got to ride in it. She said "Wow, it's peppy!" and it stuck. BTW, I named mine in august, when did you name yours?

I test drove a automatic Yaris and the dealer said that it had some pep to it, but the manuals were even more peppy... So she was named before I got her ^^...but you got me beat, I named mine in FEB 07. (but I put the thread up first LOL) Oh and I'm a big Starfox fan ^^

Devine
06-27-2007, 09:07 PM
I named mine NEMO.....its blue and adorable and so small the trucks block it in the parking lot....so it literally is FINDING NEMO everywhere I park!

<<D>>

churp
06-27-2007, 09:09 PM
BLACK BETTY.....like the song from Ram Jam!

Typer73
06-27-2007, 09:23 PM
Yari, the Silver Bullet, and I say "Good Morning, Yari" to him every day before I get in (I'm kinda superstitious).

Lickitung
06-27-2007, 11:04 PM
Phyllis

dvlnblkdrs
06-27-2007, 11:20 PM
mork!!! hey slothman.. did u photoshop that front or is that ur front end? its all smiley, i love it!!!

Push
06-28-2007, 12:00 AM
My car name is Brollic. cuz people say I drive with road rage and im like the car just drives like that.

RodimusPrime
06-28-2007, 12:27 AM
Haven't bought my Yaris yet, and my current vehicle has no name. I don't like it much. But the cavalier I once owned was nicknamed 'the green squirrel' after a buddy of mine went for a spin in it after we installed the supercharger. I'm sure this one well have a animal like nickname.

Motorhead6T5
06-28-2007, 12:48 AM
The hamster

Kioshi
06-28-2007, 01:00 AM
I call mine Yari. Same as Typer73.
But my friends got me sayin Yari chan everytime she's in it~

Kaotic Lazagna
06-28-2007, 01:38 AM
hahaha, my friends call my car "Piglet". i really don't have a nickname for her right now...

slvryaris
06-28-2007, 01:42 AM
Betsy

Grindstone18
06-28-2007, 03:18 AM
Yoshi

Kaotic Lazagna
06-28-2007, 03:57 AM
Yoshi

Yoshi! the best character ever made!

eTiMaGo
06-28-2007, 04:51 AM
I always just refer to it as "my Yaris"... not so big on naming cars...

Though I do nickname it "Prikinoo" sometimes, that's the Thai name for some very small, very red, and VERY spicy little chili peppers...

slothman86
06-28-2007, 08:27 AM
mork!!! hey slothman.. did u photoshop that front or is that ur front end? its all smiley, i love it!!!

No, she's really smiling ^u^ J/K

cleong
06-28-2007, 08:30 AM
Mine started out being called the Silver Bug and later another nickname was tagged on - Wombat.

kurokoma-kun
06-28-2007, 10:46 AM
Kurokoma-kun is my car's name

redyaris
06-28-2007, 01:29 PM
Lightning (as in McQueen)

http://cdn-15.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users15/dragonhearts/default/msg-116853709056.jpg

BailOut
06-28-2007, 02:05 PM
I call mine the "Pregnant Rollerskate", because that's what it looks like, according to a buddy of mine.

death is my gift
06-28-2007, 04:01 PM
I named my car, "Willow." Cuz she's red.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/62/040_FP0785~Buffy-Willow-Posters.jpg

DorytheYaris
06-28-2007, 04:24 PM
Dory - for the little blue fish in Finding Nemo. She had a circular shape and I guess you can say the shape of the LB is "bubbly" :laugh:

slothman86
06-28-2007, 04:38 PM
I named mine NEMO.....its blue and adorable and so small the trucks block it in the parking lot....so it literally is FINDING NEMO everywhere I park!


Dory - for the little blue fish in Finding Nemo. She had a circular shape and I guess you can say the shape of the LB is "bubbly" :laugh:

LOL We have a Nemo and a Dory!

cm07yaris
06-28-2007, 04:48 PM
I call mine the "Pregnant Rollerskate", because that's what it looks like, according to a buddy of mine.

I just call mine a rollerskate.

Jem_hadar
06-28-2007, 07:28 PM
Cara after my favourite character in The Sword of Truth fantasy series by Terry Goodkind.

I even have the custom plates MORDSITH which is in honour of my car's name. Cara's character IS a Mord-Sith.

(If my car was red instead of bayou blue, her name would be so highly relevant and perfect it wouldn't be funny! Serious... something being more perfect wouldn't be possible IMO. But, I just think of Cara as my "blue" Mord-Sith.)



I named my car, "Willow." Cuz she's red.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/62/040_FP0785~Buffy-Willow-Posters.jpg

Ha! Eff'n AWESOME! ^5 Love it. So perfect man!!


Dory - for the little blue fish in Finding Nemo. She had a circular shape and I guess you can say the shape of the LB is "bubbly" :laugh:

Thats actually quite cute and awesome. I like it too.

flint_mica_manual
06-28-2007, 10:43 PM
the 'yota

dvlnblkdrs
06-29-2007, 12:20 AM
No, she's really smiling ^u^ J/K

no.. really.. i have to have it.. cmon, out with it.. i neeeeed it like a man needs to come...lol please?

Black Yaris
06-29-2007, 12:53 AM
I just call her Blackie.... All my friends call it the pregnant rollerskate

slothman86
06-29-2007, 12:57 PM
no.. really.. i have to have it.. cmon, out with it.. i neeeeed it like a man needs to come...lol please?

very shop! LOL

sambo42xa
06-29-2007, 01:25 PM
CLOWN car!

Drove it home when I bought it and the first thing my Daughter said was, "daddy, is that your clown car"?
My Wife was waiting for a bunch of clowns to get out of the car.

I was thinking of having a mural on it......maybe a green stem/vine off the roof and on the sides so it looks like a tomatoe or a jalapeno pepper or black dots as a lady bug (but it wouldn't look right for a guy driving it :laugh: OR white stripes on it like Edward Van Halens guitar (earlier years)
The Clown car.

kurokoma-kun
06-29-2007, 02:46 PM
CLOWN car!

Well, there's yer trouble!

Jem_hadar
06-29-2007, 06:23 PM
My friends sometimes call it the Fishbowl...

Bc of its shape, and bc once was in it wearing swimming goggles....

an electronic music festival last year (WEMF) I was in it, all sketchy, blasting ch00ns with the windows down, wearing the goggles lol. (yes, just to be comical... and bc it was sunday morning and i was really sketchy by this point in the whole weekend).

njyaris
06-29-2007, 06:45 PM
ecobox

Devine
06-29-2007, 10:15 PM
My co-worker calls hers JELLYBEAN because she said it looked like a jellybean the moment she saw in on the car lot.


<<D>>

slvryaris
06-30-2007, 02:33 PM
Thats what my girlfriend calls mine, but she rides in it.




CLOWN car!

Drove it home when I bought it and the first thing my Daughter said was, "daddy, is that your clown car"?
My Wife was waiting for a bunch of clowns to get out of the car.

I was thinking of having a mural on it......maybe a green stem/vine off the roof and on the sides so it looks like a tomatoe or a jalapeno pepper or black dots as a lady bug (but it wouldn't look right for a guy driving it :laugh: OR white stripes on it like Edward Van Halens guitar (earlier years)
The Clown car.

DorytheYaris
06-30-2007, 03:29 PM
LOL We have a Nemo and a Dory!

How awesome is that?! :thumbsup:

sdmf
06-30-2007, 04:11 PM
i named mine fujiko, named after the hot chick in lupin the 3rd anime series

http://www.fk.urban.ne.jp/home/keny/MYROOM/COLA/FUJIKO-V2.jpg

people call it cadbury, like the cadbury egg.

duck
07-09-2007, 10:52 AM
i named mine Yak, because "Yaris" just sounds silly :laugh:

"Quick, put the bags in the Yak"
"Oh, the book? I left it in the Yak"
"I'm taking the Yak to get washed"

fantoma33
07-09-2007, 11:34 AM
...OR white stripes on it like Edward Van Halens guitar (earlier years)

Do it

HTM Yaris
07-09-2007, 12:51 PM
Coryn . named after my late wife of 14 years .

death is my gift
07-09-2007, 01:09 PM
Coryn . named after my late wife of 14 years .

That's really sweet.

Merlinspop
07-09-2007, 05:03 PM
Misha.

No idea why, but it stuck.

sherryberry
07-09-2007, 05:34 PM
Haven't named mine yet. still trying to find a good name.. my bf calls it blue ball....

brickhardmeat
07-09-2007, 08:10 PM
:laugh: naming inanimate objects is just fucking wierd, your a bunch of nerdz

fnkngrv
07-09-2007, 08:18 PM
:laugh: naming inanimate objects is just fucking wierd, your a bunch of nerdz

This coming from someone that has a handle of brickhardmeat...now if that doesn't sound like part of a fallacy naming (which you can argue all you want about it not being an animate object) I don't know what is...:laughabove: :headbang:

brickhardmeat
07-09-2007, 08:21 PM
This coming from someone that has a handle of brickhardmeat...now if that doesn't sound like part of a fallacy naming (which you can argue all you want about it not being an animate object) I don't know what is...:laughabove: :headbang:
:bellyroll: :laughabove: :rolleyes:

Geelmeel
07-09-2007, 08:26 PM
Toshi, after 1st crush.

fnkngrv
07-09-2007, 08:44 PM
Hisui Ryuu .... It is Kanji for Jade Dragon

antfeldsch
07-09-2007, 09:13 PM
Mine is named the, "WEAVER" , it is named after a girl I see when I go to the liquor store named WEAVERS. My wife even laughs. The kids in the neighborhood even say watch out for the WEAVER.

A Sexy Chilean
07-09-2007, 10:12 PM
Layla Ebony Yarisa

mehrit
07-09-2007, 10:43 PM
I haven't bought mine yet, but I went to look at one last weekend and I decided if I get my favorite color, Blazing Blue, I'm going to name it The YARDIS. 'Cuz its bigger on the inside. ^_^

gsalsiri
07-09-2007, 10:44 PM
Mine is called Mica.

keesue
07-10-2007, 12:03 AM
I refer to my car as "The YarVitz". I got it from one of the fellas who had his interior redone and posted a pic with 'YarVitz' stitched on the headrests. I found it funny and it stuck. Kosher...

sherryberry
07-12-2007, 03:54 PM
I've decided to call my blazing blue yaris Lil' Smurfette!

apeebles
08-24-2007, 06:56 PM
Abdullah... one of my friends named it after my salesperson at the dealership :wink:

sam07yaris
08-24-2007, 06:59 PM
mines Lexy

Doug007
08-24-2007, 07:24 PM
In the tradition of my favourite show, "Scrubs" and to honor "Janitor"...I simply call my sedan "Yaris". I've had a practice of naming my cars after females, for example "Maggie MG" after my 73 MGB "Mary Margaret Mustang" etc., but couldn't come up with good alliteration for Y's.:iono:

Doug

Meteorite Man
08-24-2007, 11:08 PM
Well at first the guys at work called it "Precious". Then I put the Shark Antenna on to tough'n it up and now...."The Guppy"

fainty_girl
08-24-2007, 11:15 PM
My car's name is 'Martha', after Martha Stewart ;)


I absolutely hate Paris Hilton, but if there are any yaris owners who like her they could always nickname their car 'Yaris Hilton'.

http://www.georgecaroll.com/female%20stars/Martha%20Stewart/martha-stewart.jpg

flagmunkey
08-25-2007, 04:20 AM
Alfalfa :D

http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/Little-Rascals/Alfalfa--C10113037.jpeg

fainty_girl
08-25-2007, 06:29 AM
Alfalfa :D

http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/Little-Rascals/Alfalfa--C10113037.jpeg

That's a cute name for a car!

BTW, you're lucky that you live in Flagstaff - I visited there a couple of years ago and its a cool little place!

tca4
08-25-2007, 08:02 AM
Nickname for my car is call Mantou basically means chinese steam bun and simply because they are white and my car is white too

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/ClassicwhiteMantou.jpg

ShARK wITH WhEELs
08-25-2007, 09:20 AM
"SLOW" ahaha

sherryberry
08-25-2007, 11:59 AM
Nickname for my car is call Mantou basically means chinese steam bun and simply because they are white and my car is white too

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/ClassicwhiteMantou.jpg

omg that looks so yummy. i know mantou :smile: you're chinese, eh? mandarin?

navtecftw
08-25-2007, 12:45 PM
I named mine "Izzy". It needed a name- this car didn't have personality to start off with like my integra did, but I guess it's got 140,000+ miles to catch up on that. She's starting to wake up a bit.

I got the name from a girl who I worked with for a while. I kept asking people for ideas, and that was by far the best I heard.

maryinredding
08-30-2007, 03:10 AM
We call our Yaris "The Baby" ,our Chrysler Aspen is called "The Beast" because it is so big and my PT Cruiser is called "Jewel"

aca72
08-30-2007, 04:40 PM
Our Yaris, "Baby Car"- fondly named by my two year old daughter.

Our 01 Civic, plainly called "Civic".

trini_per4mance
08-31-2007, 12:05 AM
I call mine "My B!tch" cuz she does everything I want her to do and more.

Pavel Olavich
08-31-2007, 01:09 AM
My 16 year old daughter calls her Red Lift Back "Piggy".

I call my blue Lift Back "Godzilla".

Black Yaris
08-31-2007, 01:52 AM
Oh god there are little Pavel's running around?

yak
06-20-2009, 12:51 AM
Fugly

Justin220
06-22-2009, 05:53 AM
I named it as Honey, haha, except my girlfriend, my Camry is really another sweet honey of mine!

GnomeBody
09-14-2009, 02:08 PM
I hadn't picked a name yet. I typically refer to mine as "the Yaris".

My father after seeing it the first time affectionately dubed it "the rat-mobile"

EleKid
09-14-2009, 02:36 PM
Boris. Boris the Yaris. Sexy, eh?

TinyGiant
09-14-2009, 03:21 PM
my first car was a 90 trecel HB named lil blue (from original owner) so naturally the 18 years newer version of the hb trecel is now little blue.. or sometimes the Tiny Mobile

i've heard the following slurs.. hunk of blue cheese, jelly bean, roller skate.. etc

DevilGirl
09-14-2009, 03:55 PM
If only mine was green in color... My dad referred to my car the other day as a "Gecko"... Still trying to figure that one out......

puetato89
09-14-2009, 03:56 PM
mine baby vitz name is sonic!!

darthbauer
09-14-2009, 04:02 PM
A bunch of my friends call my car the blue dart.


Other than it being blue idk why.

puetato89
09-14-2009, 04:09 PM
A bunch of my friends call my car the blue dart.


Other than it being blue idk why.

cause its "quick"!! lol

KRAZGRL
09-14-2009, 04:32 PM
My co-worker calls hers JELLYBEAN because she said it looked like a jellybean the moment she saw in on the car lot.


<<D>>


I call mine The Jelly Bean too! Totally looks like one!

http://www.poolandspa.com/images/Jelly%20Bean_SS_White.jpg

JCS_IMPORT_25
09-14-2009, 04:50 PM
mines gumball because everyone wants the beautifull red gumball.

ozmdd
09-14-2009, 05:22 PM
"Huevito" FTW!

Prohibit
09-14-2009, 06:40 PM
Stitch.

ern-diz
09-14-2009, 06:42 PM
i think there's been a couple threads on this...looks like someone brought this one back from the dead...

anyhoo, i jokingly refer to mine as knight rider...as for some of my friends, they call it the darth vader helmet...i get bullet bill sometimes too...

DandiDani
09-15-2009, 06:09 PM
we called husbands... black egg and i call mine lil' egg.

slothman86
09-16-2009, 08:32 PM
i think there's been a couple threads on this...looks like someone brought this one back from the dead...

anyhoo, i jokingly refer to mine as knight rider...as for some of my friends, they call it the darth vader helmet...i get bullet bill sometimes too...

Zombie Thread! LOL

I still call my car Peppy even to people I just met, they look at me and say "Peppy?"

ern-diz
09-16-2009, 09:33 PM
Zombie Thread! LOL

hahaha 4real

l2a3k2a3i
09-18-2009, 08:32 AM
Alkaid

Francos Yaris
09-20-2009, 12:18 AM
When i first got the car, my friends saw it and were thinking of some names. It became Johnson. It kinda fits the car, I like it.

minired5stby
09-20-2009, 12:52 AM
Mine is Mini Red5 since my Tc is already RedFive. Look at my garage

snerism
09-20-2009, 03:37 AM
Skeptron Sprinter

slothman86
09-20-2009, 12:23 PM
Skeptron Sprinter

I was thinking of putting a Sprinter badge on my car somewhere in honor of the 86 but I can't find a good place

birdman
09-30-2009, 03:46 AM
Blue Blazer

Marfulion
10-01-2009, 05:40 PM
I call it the "YA-RACE"

CtrlAltDefeat
10-01-2009, 07:24 PM
I chose "Sayuki" after one of the girls (the navigator) from "Impact Blue" on Initial D (the one on the right in the attached pic). I would have liked to name her after the prettier one on the left (the driver), but I think Mako is a crappy name for a car. I don't usually use her name but I thought she needed a name... :biggrin:

Maxh91
10-01-2009, 07:27 PM
I call it the "YA-RACE"

:w00t:


My Yaris nickname? Yaya

slothman86
10-02-2009, 08:58 PM
I chose "Sayuki" after one of the girls (the navigator) from "Impact Blue" on Initial D (the one on the right in the attached pic). I would have liked to name her after the prettier one on the left (the driver), but I think Mako is a crappy name for a car. I don't usually use her name but I thought she needed a name... :biggrin:


too bad we can't put the Yaris sedan front end on the liftback, LOL.

like the sil-eighty....eh...but anyway INITIAL-D FTW!

CtrlAltDefeat
10-02-2009, 10:26 PM
too bad we can't put the Yaris sedan front end on the liftback, LOL.

like the sil-eighty....eh...but anyway INITIAL-D FTW!

hmmm wonder if any one has tried... might be interesting...

slothman86
10-03-2009, 12:38 AM
hmmm wonder if any one has tried... might be interesting...

A quick shop revealed this...

enobmort42
10-03-2009, 04:20 AM
some call mine 'the egg," but i refer to it as Thumper. sometimes t-dawg, if i'm in a good mood =P

CtrlAltDefeat
10-04-2009, 10:58 PM
A quick shop revealed this...

ack nvm,it looks like a fit lol

henrythomas
10-21-2009, 01:23 AM
Well my car nickname is destiny and i love it very much.

DevilGirl
10-21-2009, 08:50 AM
I think I'm leaning towards Yoda Eggbert. The "Yoda" cause it's a To-"Yoda" (and I have a small stuffed Yoda doll in my car). And the Eggbert, well, cause it's an egg.

(Oh, and if anyone has a blue Yaris and is looking for a good "mascot", I found a Smurfette doll at Toys-R-Us, and I saw some Papa Smurf and other Smurf dolls there the last time I went).

DevilGirl
10-26-2009, 07:53 AM
My car was called a "coffin" the other day...... :confused::cry::frown:

Yaris Hilton
10-26-2009, 09:41 AM
My car was called a "coffin" the other day...... :confused::cry::frown:

Doubtless by someone who thinks you should be driving a Hummer to be "safe."

DevilGirl
10-26-2009, 11:41 AM
Doubtless by someone who thinks you should be driving a Hummer to be "safe."

Not so sure bout a Hummer, but she drives a Jeep Liberty. She comes from a Jeep family.

birdman
10-27-2009, 10:46 PM
I think I might rename mine the Millennium Falcon.

SpaceShot
10-28-2009, 04:46 PM
My wife calls it "The Pod".

I am thinking more "Bullet" myself...

LittleRed
10-28-2009, 11:41 PM
Little Red....my pathfinder is "the Beast"

AmyV
10-28-2009, 11:53 PM
My Yaris goes by many nicknames, including Piglet :-)

But my fairlane is called 'The Beast' too!

DevilGirl
10-29-2009, 08:47 AM
My Yaris goes by many nicknames, including Piglet :-)


I like that! :thumbup: Not sure I would have thought of Piglet, but that's my favorite Pooh character! :respekt:

VQ35
10-29-2009, 01:41 PM
Nickname...I first called it my Maserati, but have since morphed it into Yaserati.

CtrlAltDefeat
10-29-2009, 08:31 PM
Nickname...I first called it my Maserati, but have since morphed it into Yaserati.

lol that's funny...first post? Welcome to YW, :thumbup:

squall_x
10-29-2009, 08:54 PM
I call mine "M&M" for "Meteorite Metallic".

chongopants
10-29-2009, 09:04 PM
Rosalinda....

abdallah380
01-12-2010, 06:34 PM
IRIS :D

cherrie
01-12-2010, 08:01 PM
Mine is the Nou Mobile. Nou is my name :o)

daf62757
01-12-2010, 08:57 PM
The USS Yaris

Cutie Pie #2
01-12-2010, 09:12 PM
I call mine Blue skate just like my license plate says BLU SK8! Originally was called cutie pie, but I like blue skate better.

DevilGirl
01-13-2010, 08:34 AM
The USS Yaris

I love it!!! :headbang:

TRDMarty
01-13-2010, 09:25 AM
Nickname...I first called it my Maserati, but have since morphed it into Yaserati.

The Italian reference fits well, good call:laughabove:

I call mine ''Feryari'':smoking:

hyprmiler
01-13-2010, 12:01 PM
Yippy is mine. :thumbup:

waitntodwnsize
01-14-2010, 03:51 PM
My gorgeous Buick Park Avenue is nicknamed "the jet" because its big, silver, and sounds just like an airplane taking off when you floor it.

i REALLY want a yaris named BOB.

sc4
01-14-2010, 04:33 PM
"little guy" or "clown car" or "the egg"

Noodles
02-18-2010, 11:33 PM
I named mine Fluffy! :D

Crims0n5
02-19-2010, 04:50 AM
My Yaris is named Ness! Short for Vanessa!

drunkwithwords
02-26-2010, 02:11 AM
Latka.

Kimmy
02-26-2010, 03:07 PM
Saphire

jclo3313
02-26-2010, 03:47 PM
Hoshi

DFA
02-27-2010, 04:04 AM
Molly

libraryelf
02-27-2010, 08:39 PM
I call mine "Yari" or "Yazzie". It depends on which one I think of when I need to have a 'talk". Doesn't everyone talk to their cars?

Kimmy
02-27-2010, 08:51 PM
I call mine "Yari" or "Yazzie". It depends on which one I think of when I need to have a 'talk". Doesn't everyone talk to their cars?

i do sometimes!! :thumbsup:

libraryelf
02-27-2010, 08:57 PM
Mehrit, your a Dr. Who person. I like Torchwood better, I wonder if I should change mine for "Yari/Yazzy" to "Ianto".:clap:

cmcguinness7
03-03-2010, 10:06 AM
Rexie - as in Yarisaurus Rex

pawsplus
03-03-2010, 04:00 PM
Shark Bait. :evil: This was my friend's idea since the dealership clearly thought I WAS Shark Bait until, well, they met the real me. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

derickveliz2
03-03-2010, 04:06 PM
.

Yarisito!




.

RABYARIS
03-03-2010, 05:52 PM
Yary

yaris2010RS
03-04-2010, 12:46 PM
blueberry

smell my finger
03-23-2010, 01:10 PM
optimus prime

zachryboles
03-23-2010, 01:18 PM
Yarii......... chunk love Yarii

QuantumIguana
03-23-2010, 02:37 PM
The Big Black Car. My 3 year old likes the Wiggles, and they sing a song about "The Big Red Car". She called our 91 Civic the Big Red Car - she liked riding in the Big Red Car - by the end, I hated driving it. She really warmed up the Yaris when I called it "The Big Black Car".

The funny thing is it does feel a lot bigger than the old Civic felt.

As far as people calling small cars "coffins", why do they get so bent out of shape over people who drive small cars? It seems some people seem personally offended at seeing small cars.

It's probably because they put a lot of their own sense of power and self-esteem into their car - they drive a large vehicle, therefore they see themselves as large and powerful.

Possibilities:

1) They see drivers of small cars as weak people that they feel the need to attempt to dominate to build up their own sense of self worth.

2) They see drivers of smaller cars as self-confident enough not to need a large car to demonstrate their own power and self esteem. Therefore, they see drivers of small cars as a threat - someone who doesn't need to display strength is a stronger person than someone who does feel this need.

Consider martial artists. The very best, the most confident, know how good they are, and feel no need to demonstrate their power to others. It's the lessers who feel the need to display their might to others. It's not a show of strength, but of weakness.

The "coffin" comments are not assessments of the vehicle's objective traits, but displays of an insecure driver. Small cars, such as the Yaris can be quite safe. They conveniently forget the tendency of SUVs to roll over.

JBougie
03-24-2010, 01:14 PM
My friend, who is 1/2 Japanese, helped me find a name for my car - she named him Aoi-ko ... which she said means "little blue" in the short version .... and that is what my license plate is going to say. The long version is Chiisai Aoi, but I can only fit 7 lettes onto my specialty plate so she shortened it up :)

derickveliz2
03-24-2010, 01:25 PM
My friend, who is 1/2 Japanese, helped me find a name for my car - she named him Aoi-ko ... which she said means "little blue" in the short version .... and that is what my license plate is going to say. The long version is Chiisai Aoi, but I can only fit 7 lettes onto my specialty plate so she shortened it up :)


I would "Google it first" :thumbsup:


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:eek:

slothman86
03-24-2010, 06:41 PM
yeah sounds about right... would koaoi be better? こあおい like koneko is kitten and koinu is puppy?

JBougie
03-24-2010, 11:36 PM
I would "Google it first" :thumbsup:


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:eek:

Why? I trust her ... she's one of my best friends .... it's not like she would tell me to name my car "p0rn star" to be funny.

...thanks for temporarily making me question my friend :tongue:

JBougie
03-24-2010, 11:38 PM
yeah sounds about right... would koaoi be better? こあおい like koneko is kitten and koinu is puppy?

I like the "little blue" though ... I think it's cute :wub:

Is there a translation difference with that? Maybe I'm just not understanding lol

derickveliz2
03-25-2010, 12:10 PM
I would "Google it first" :thumbsup:


.
:eek:



Just in case! it's not about your friend, I'm sure you trust her, some times you would be amazed on what's out there.


(o:

JBougie
03-25-2010, 07:33 PM
Just in case! it's not about your friend, I'm sure you trust her, some times you would be amazed on what's out there.


(o:

Completely understood .... kinda like those kids who trust the tattoo shop when they say that Chinese character really means "Hope and Love" just to find out it means "I like it in the pooper"
:laugh:

matanfr
04-27-2010, 09:20 AM
when i first bought it,i thought about it for very long time how should i name it.
there was a children's tv show in Israel a long time ago.there was a cute and curious turtle puppet called "batz" in hebrew ("tzav" in hebrew means "turtle" and some letters are flipped).since my yaris reminded me of a big and lovely metal turtle,i decided to call him "batzi" (which means "my lovely turtle").the name has "stuck" to my car so much that even my girlfriend and my mother call my yaris like that..

as for "something" inside the car,there was another children tv show called "babar the elephant".there was a rhino charachter called "rataxes",so i put a grey rhino puppet on the back shelf
whenever i hit the road i see people staring at my car and smiling when they see the puppet

Yaris Hilton
04-27-2010, 12:10 PM
Just don't let your turtle get flipped on its back!

My wife usually has a small "Walter The Farting Dog" on the back shelf of hers.

fnkngrv
04-27-2010, 12:45 PM
HISUI RYU would be mine....Jade Dragon

slothman86
04-27-2010, 02:19 PM
when i first bought it,i thought about it for very long time how should i name it.
there was a children's tv show in Israel a long time ago.there was a cute and curious turtle puppet called "batz" in hebrew ("tzav" in hebrew means "turtle" and some letters are flipped).since my yaris reminded me of a big and lovely metal turtle,i decided to call him "batzi" (which means "my lovely turtle").the name has "stuck" to my car so much that even my girlfriend and my mother call my yaris like that..

as for "something" inside the car,there was another children tv show called "babar the elephant".there was a rhino charachter called "rataxes",so i put a grey rhino puppet on the back shelf
whenever i hit the road i see people staring at my car and smiling when they see the puppet

Nice! My gramma-in-law call my car the turtle car. I kinda like it tho!

matanfr
04-27-2010, 04:01 PM
Just don't let your turtle get flipped on its back!

My wife usually has a small "Walter The Farting Dog" on the back shelf of hers.

actually i have never seen a yaris on it's back.i've seen jeeps,landrovers,hummers and other SUV'S but not yaris..
what is the "walter the farting dog"???it's sounds :w00t:

slothman86-the yaris IS a turtle car :biggrin:

suckerface
04-27-2010, 04:04 PM
If I'm not mistaken, Walter the Farting Dog is from a kids book about....well...farting. I know my sister was looking all over for it when she had her first kid.

http://books.google.com/books?id=fhDmjXqAxZQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=walter+the+farting+dog&hl=en&ei=OTTXS93YJIuUMqaR9YwG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Yaris Hilton
04-27-2010, 04:28 PM
The Walter books are all classics! There's even one in Latin, if you're so inclined.

STC
04-27-2010, 04:47 PM
Good car nickname's folks!

I love it... "a turtle car" :biggrin: So, true...

Don't have a name for mine yet? I remember the Dr. Seuss children book, "Yertle the Turtle". Yertle was blue too!

Maybe, "The Blue Yertle"? LOL! I don't think the Yaris will turn out to be "King of the Mud", though! :smile:

fiia
04-27-2010, 05:15 PM
black mamba...
after The Bride.

matanfr
04-27-2010, 06:01 PM
black mamba...
after The Bride.

this is wicked :evil:

Bluevitz-rs
04-27-2010, 07:56 PM
Mine's on my License Plate
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c250/BLUEVITZ/DSC_3981.jpg

I also have the Vitz emblem on the back!!

zerofade
04-27-2010, 08:16 PM
Sportster.......

matanfr
04-28-2010, 03:05 AM
Mine's on my License Plate
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c250/BLUEVITZ/DSC_3981.jpg

I also have the Vitz emblem on the back!!

that's a beautiful color!
In Israel the 2009 yaris doesn't come in blue at all,only in grey and metallic colors,white,black and red.my ex-girlfriend had a blue yaris from 2008 and i loved the color so much..i was so dissapointed by the lack of blue colors in 2009... :frown:
if i could afford it,i would color my batzi in navy blue.. :wub:

Yoshi Yaris
04-28-2010, 04:43 AM
Yoshi Yaris ...... little dinosaur in Mario games that almost looks like a Yaris .... if you use your imagination.

Yaris Hilton
04-28-2010, 03:21 PM
My daughter had a green Echo named Yoshi. Had a tag made with the name on it.

rotcav
05-03-2010, 01:37 PM
Mine is simply Kijo prnounced k-eye-joe.

BLOODY_STONE
05-04-2010, 10:30 PM
jimmy!

Yaris Hilton
05-05-2010, 12:56 PM
That's thinkin' with your dipstick!

Randa
05-05-2010, 01:29 PM
ChubbyBunny<3

RedStickHam
05-08-2010, 07:30 PM
I sometimes call mine Tasha Yaris, to pay homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I also call it My Little Car, because that's what it is, a little car.

RedStickHam

SAV912
05-08-2010, 10:44 PM
Mine is Poivre. A good friend named it. It's French for 'pepper' or 'peppercorn'. I can't remember which. :biggrin:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/SAVdub/Toyota%20Yaris/IMG_6606.jpg

-SAV:drinking:

slothman86
05-08-2010, 11:04 PM
Nice yellow fogs!

SAV912
05-09-2010, 02:39 AM
Nice yellow fogs!

Thanks. Nokya 55w Yellows and Lamin-X overlays. Definitely a distinctive look. :biggrin:

-SAV :drinking:

STC
05-10-2010, 08:47 AM
Her name is "Liberty" ... LibertyRides! :thumbup:

In eight minutes... you will know why I named her Liberty :biggrin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I

gokartride
05-10-2010, 11:27 AM
The Good Egg

Beer Jammer
05-11-2010, 08:03 AM
I call mine 'Chucky', cos I love to chuck it round corners and it does have a "I may look sweet, but I dont mess with me!" kinda personality. :-)

Thai_Dang
07-04-2010, 06:08 AM
Mines the Lumpy Potato

karr1213
07-04-2010, 01:08 PM
I call my little guy Aisubeki あいすべき "Loveable" It seems about right.
He needed a Japanese name.
http://imgur.com/Ek1Fv.jpg

http://imgur.com/wMWZe.jpg

For the people at work, I don't bother with the name. I just call him "the Baby car". and stop making fun of my baby car! Every one drives big trucks because they live out of town on farms. I'm in town.

RedHatch08
07-04-2010, 01:32 PM
Red Jellybean

solarVitz
07-04-2010, 03:42 PM
I call mine Smurfette.

http://ankabb.blox.pl/resource/smurfette.jpg

Billiam
07-04-2010, 03:57 PM
Butt Monkey. :respekt:

Randa
08-11-2010, 07:55 PM
Ok, I call it YARI (Yar-ee) a lot now :)

wispaintstyle
08-15-2010, 11:47 PM
my girlfriend calls it jelly bean. I call it monster. I call it bitch when I'm changing a headlight bulb.

yaris2010RS
08-21-2010, 06:17 PM
I call it bitch when I'm changing a headlight bulb.

:bow::bow::bow:
EPIC MY FRIEND!! LMFAO

njiteb
08-21-2010, 08:49 PM
mine's Ponyo
my friend was joking one day and called my car "little red" in Chinese, so I retorted and said "she's Ponyo!" and the name got stuck... another friend call it the mushroom car since I have a few Mario mushrooms inside

tonbon
08-22-2010, 12:24 AM
ma "red egg".
if it was white, i'd paint one end yellow and put a crack in it.
once i get my flames painted on it may change(to the "flamin' red egg").

Dec24th
08-24-2010, 02:08 AM
Mine is Sneaker. It looks like a lone sneaker from far away and it sneaks into tight spaces, Sneaker.

QuantumIguana
08-28-2010, 02:41 AM
I now have an 07 Yaris, my 08 Yaris got totalled (is it too much to ask for the other driver to not speed around turns and to stay in his own lane? :evil: ) The other driver tried to claim that I was the one over the line, but their story didn't hold up, and besides, the pattern of damage on the car indicated that they had to be over the line.

Anyway, my new Yaris is red, so it's "The Big Red Car". If any of you have kids, you may know the Big Red Car from the Wiggles kid's TV show.

It's a stick shift, I haven't driven a stick shift in years. Took a while to get used to it. I could do it, but it didn't feel like I could do it. Now I'm finding that I'm not even thinking about shifting. The last time I had a stick shift was an 87 Chevy Sprint. Second gear went out around the time the warranty expired. I stopped driving it a few years later, still without a second gear. This car should last longer, unless I encounter another awful driver.

Lucky Bastard
08-28-2010, 04:54 AM
I call mine the Isz.
http://www.mtv.com/onair/the_maxx/images/cast/isz_281x211.jpg

annn
08-28-2010, 12:58 PM
micro dot :wink:

chrisj
08-28-2010, 03:08 PM
"Five on the black hand side"

slothman86
08-28-2010, 04:58 PM
micro dot :wink:

nice hood! gonna get it painted?

bkndacn
08-28-2010, 05:41 PM
Mines name is Yoshi because he looks like the blue Yoshi from super mario....

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/ab130/bkndacn/DSCN0373.jpg

sleey0
08-28-2010, 06:05 PM
ALL black sand yaris here (i mean all black - black projectors, 5% tint, gunmetal rims, ans smoked jdm tails).

El Gato Negro, holmes....

Seems fitting:D

JumpmanYaris
08-28-2010, 07:54 PM
Black mamba

OTA'sTOY
08-28-2010, 08:18 PM
:cool:
刺す

annn
08-28-2010, 10:47 PM
nice hood! gonna get it painted?

yea its in paint right now...had lots of issues to get it ready to paint..this was a test fit pic...next pics will be with rs spoiler and hood:biggrin:

Who_Is_SB
09-26-2010, 04:33 PM
'Bub' simple name, describes it perfectly
http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu85/b0undbydefiance/DSC_0002.jpg

bizzlebaby
09-26-2010, 06:31 PM
Silver sedan ... I call it Long John

sickpuppy1
09-26-2010, 07:18 PM
Mediterranean mica red, named by my wife...Ruby, it fits. Especially from Kansas........ruby slippers ya know....

Black Yaris
09-26-2010, 07:22 PM
der Zeck.....

yaris2010RS
09-27-2010, 02:06 AM
blue devil..... me and my friends were screwing around and felt it needed a manlyer name then blueberry.....

ESPECIALLY SINCE IT KICKED ASS ON THE TRACK!!

miikeydakiid
09-28-2010, 03:45 AM
yarisaurus rex.....i have no clue why i named it like that
http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=449&pictureid=2734

RABYARIS
09-29-2010, 06:51 PM
Yar-ree with the emphasis on "ree"....

chrisj
09-29-2010, 07:01 PM
We just named ours "Spot".

Nope...changed it to "Shaven Raven".

1.5ty
10-02-2010, 01:18 AM
mine cars nickname is the rollerskate

Zippie
10-02-2010, 09:18 AM
Zippie, because she is zippie

yoisb
10-02-2010, 04:54 PM
My Yaris' name is Calvin... and it has a Hobbes buckled up on the back seat...

gm830
10-18-2010, 02:24 PM
mine is Smurf :)

.Kevin.
10-18-2010, 02:45 PM
I always say what a beast, so I guess beast.