Nicknames we give to cars/bits of cars

[Imran_M]

Bit of a geeky one here....

I call my black Audi TTS 'Shadowfax'. Fans of Lord of the Rings will know this is the horse that Gandalf rides in the Two Towers. But it gets worse...

.. Sometimes when there's a quiet stretch infront, I say ''Shadowfax, show me the meaning of haste!'' and then slam my foot down.

BEST
FEELING
EVER

[Greg 172]

Is "Pug" no longer a thing?

It is in my house 😀

[DiscoColin]

Land Yacht - huge American cars (typically from the 1970s) with hilariously soft suspension making them prone to pitch, roll and wallowing.
Pimp Mobile - modified land yacht with significant additional chromed fittings and an interior trimmed in faux fur or velvet.

[Roundm]

uhm,

granada scorpio - wide mouthed frog
beetle - pregnant rollerskate
toyota landcruiser - talliban tank (look at all the pics on the news!)
morris minor - moggy
any Morgan - mog

[aka_kerrly]

DiscoColin said:

Pimp Mobile - modified land yacht with significant additional chromed fittings and an interior trimmed in faux fur or velvet.

Yeah baby

[wibble cb]

Read it on here more than once, 'vert....as in convertible, also:

frogeye/bugeye for mk1 sprites depending what side of the atlantic you are.
Ricer - any fast and furious'd Japanese modded car.
Eastbourne special -any Honda.
A friend used to call Morris Minors puddle jumpers, though I can't say I ever heard anyone else use it.
Chelsea Tractors - any London based 4x4 that has never seen a green lane.

[blearyeyedboy]

robsa said:

In the 80s, Volvo drivers were the bikers worst enemy. Bike mag or Superbike or something had a comic strip about 'the planet Ovlov' taking the mickey. So I think it may have been a biking term originally (that was when I first heard of it anyway).

Every day's a school day!

Thanks for the reply- genuinely interesting to know.

[Coatesy351]

Dose pipe. Pipe mounted before the turbo to amplify the sound of closed throttle compressor surge.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KgMD0_PZFYk

[Halmyre]

Jex said:

JasperT said:

Gorbyrev said:

Twinkle - Skooby-doo Legacy estate

I presume this is because of the 6 stars on the Subaru badge?

Subaru is the Japanese name for the constellation 'The seven sisters'.

Or the Pleiades as we call it. Pedantically speaking, it's an open star cluster, not a constellation. If you've got good eyesight you can see seven stars with the naked eye, six otherwise.

[blearyeyedboy]

In Skoda circles particularly: the useful hooks in the boot for dangling things off are called Curry Hooks.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Mr2Mike said:

talksthetorque said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Mr2Mike said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Tranny. Ford Transit.

Is that still the same in Thailand?

I can't think of a quip.

Well you've obviously not been in the back of one after a late night drinking session to get you where you need to get to.

You know when everyone is laughing and you still don't "get it".

[loose cannon]

Charger69RT said:

Not heard this one mentioned yet...

Bonnet Bra



Is that a nickname, insult or a technical term?

Wow 100 points as it's not fitted to a poxy golf

[Emanresu]

Packrat said:

Honda Civic .spaceship
Robin reliant .. plastic pig

RELIANT ROBIN!!!!!

You don't say Focus Ford or Vectra Vauxhall so why say Robin Reliant?

[Jimmy Recard]

loose cannon said:

Wow 100 points as it's not fitted to a poxy golf

Instead it's a similarly (possibly more?) poxy Corsa

[Halmyre]

Emanresu said:

Packrat said:

Honda Civic .spaceship
Robin reliant .. plastic pig

RELIANT ROBIN!!!!!

You don't say Focus Ford or Vectra Vauxhall so why say Robin Reliant?

You've got a nerve digging someone up for being back to front!

[M4cruiser]

"Semi automatic" is often used for a fully automatic . ???

Maybe I can explain
Automatic is auto operation of clutch and gears. If one of these is manual then it's semi-auto. Like the Clio Easy.

But why to we use "semi-automatic" for an automated manual, like the Durashift (Fiesta) or Easytronic (Corsa) or the MMT (Yaris, Colt etc)?

[loose cannon]

Surely everyone knows they have been called robin reliants for years, even del boys van has been called it for years even though it's not a robin at all but a regal,

Ford sierra - sterra
Ford Orion - onion
Volvo- ovlov
Vauxhall Astra - ashtray
Vauxhall cavalier - chavalier or cavelier
Any proton - scroton
Lotus carlton - bh carlt
Vauxhall senator - 20 for the jenny
Ford escort- Scort
Fiesta xr2 - Xrpoo
Ford cortina - corblimey
Ford granada - granny
Vw golf- volkshed flog
Renault Clio - cl10
Renault Megane sport - smegane
Ford transit- alright dhere boy
Porsche 356 - the shoe
Audi TT - totally tosh
Escort rs turbo - rs turdbow
Audi quatrro - Aldi squatlow
Triumph dolomite - dolly or dollop of ste
Nissan cabstar - nabstar
ford mondeo - mundaneo

[loose cannon]

blearyeyedboy said:

robsa said:

In the 80s, Volvo drivers were the bikers worst enemy. Bike mag or Superbike or something had a comic strip about 'the planet Ovlov' taking the mickey. So I think it may have been a biking term originally (that was when I first heard of it anyway).

Every day's a school day!

Thanks for the reply- genuinely interesting to know.

Can't remember what bike mag but they used to feature a competition
Called post a Volvo- basically there were 2 house front doors 1 for each team
Then each team had to cut up a Volvo estate with an axe and post it through the door
First to completely post the car through the door won

[JMF894]

My 'Dame Edna'................








The chrome trims are getting colour coded in the summer

Jimbo

[Track Rod]

Hyundai Coupe= Aldi TT