Each kit car I've had has been given a name.
1- so I can refer back to past owned cars to friends and family and they know which i mean. and 2) My little girl loves them having names.
What is yours called and where did you come to choose the name?
My new one is called R1Becca get it hahaha.
Past ones
Lola (Freestyle buggy) dity little buggy 
The beast (tiger with a tiger face custom paint job)
Mindy M(K)indy
B45tard, i dont think i have to explain
Hmmmmm
My wife chose Mindy too, though she didn't immediately see the synergy in Mk INDY (she's a bit slow like that sometimes...)
my golf is called pigs......cause they always look at it......
smart got called smartie
and the 7 is the yellow banana according to my wife..... I think peril would be nearer the mark...
Nope - never my kit cars - but the Escort in my avatar was Jeremiah becaus it was a Bullfrog and was a good friend of mine. 
Every name under the sun when having a bad day in the garage. But will most probably namer her (has to be a she) when I drive her for the first time.
MotaLeira, reverse the spelling.
Done after the slating I got from their Club forums.
Our cars all have names that we call them, but the not original.
Currently we have
'the audi' (dad a4)
'the big red bus' (mums 806)
'the blue 306' (my 306)
'the red 306' (sisters)
'the feild' (my kitcar)
Mainly ive just tried to steer clear of its being called 'the westy' as that reminds me of shity yappy dogs. But some still refer to it as
that.
The landrover lot seam to go into it big style
Within the uni off road club we have host of names
But it seems less common with kits.
Personally i think its down to just not have anything to compenstate for.
Daniel
[Edited on 28/4/2010 by dhutch]
Ive never named mine although it gets called lots of names when things don't go to plan
Looking forward to flak monkey reply to this expecting lots of F*&%%$$*%* in his post
the mondeo is a variety of things- mondy, land barge pingu (W117 PGU) but hes normaly referd to as the vicar.
the indy doesnt really have a name, swmbn calls him cleme (clementine - (bright orange kit))
i think names for cars are cool especialy when they have a back story
My wife calls my car "The Frog" 'cos it looks like it's got big bulging eyes...
Mine's called Franky cos its green and made from different bits (Frankenstein)
Franky Rolls out
Surprised no-one has mentioned 'Brum'.
All the girls I have shown immediately say 'oh that looks sweet, just like Brum!' And now the name has stuck unfortunately.
another vote for brum!! though it hugely pee's me off if i'm honest.
really need to ditch the big chrome headlamps in favour of some domintor style ones.
anyone fancy a stoneleigh swap shop??
Martin
I've had "pisskits" (Pug 106 - the numberplate almost read like hat)
My Clio never got a name.
My MX5 is either "Killjoy" (number plate endinge KLJ), "the matchbox" (my girlfriend's nam for it) or "KLMX5" when
I talk about it on the net.
I don't deliberately name ay of my cars, it's all more "organic" than that... 
Chris
Living up to my name I suppose but no because it's a car, not a person and definitely not a "he" or "she".
Mines kinda called the purple peril which kinda stems from the yellow motorbike i had which everyone at my work called the yellow peril.
The other cars are the Borat for the bora and i cant say what the bmw is called as it may offend. Begins with The ***
Dont really call them names though just money pits.
Mines called "The Bruise" as the kids asked me early on in the build what colour it was going to be so I said "Black and Blue" and
my little girl replied with "What like a bruise" and it kind of stuck!
Cheers
Rich
[Edited on 28/4/10 by RichardK]
my car is called fugly by my misses...
she says its fuckin ugly......just like me....
Mines called Eric - cuz the reg is ERC...............
Used to have a renault 5 known as Sooty - something to do with a bit of regular banter between friends which went something like ;
"Cheers ears" - "thats how it goes nose" - "F***k off Noddy" ............... and so my car became Sooty...........
I never did work that one out
Kitty
my westy was named the flying bedstead
Girls name cars.... enough said!
adrian
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Girls name cars.... enough said!
adrian
Satan's blasphemous and burning grim chariot of darkness upon the kvlt night of the fading moon
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Satan's blasphemous and burning grim chariot of darkness upon the kvlt night of the fading moon
The yellow car!
Mine got called 'the yellow one' since its been on the road.
But now it just leads to confusion as the tintop's yellow too
Bumper.. those who know, know why
I call mine "The Toy Car" which really pees off the folks who take kit cars too seriously...
amow = all my own work
Or
Lb = little blue
My 66 427 Big block Corvette with side pipes was called "FAT ALBERT" from the Bill Cosby scits.
the "baked bean" - it is orange I supose!
Wife named her first Nova 'Nilly', so the reincarnate of that became Nilly as well.
Every nova we see gets called a nilly, unless the reg letter spells an altertive (Ie a Greg nova will be a gilly)
It also got refered to as 'the beast' thanks to its 'sleeper' Qcar antics.
One of my other Novas was 'Breezer' as it was 'Breeze blue'
Since then shes not named any other of her or my cars.
Not finished yet but sometimes called "my mistress" Its ok to be out in the garage effing around with the mistress
Dale
My wife Fiesta is known as the Soul Destoyer
Mine's called Skip... that's what it was being used for when I "rescued" it!
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Not finished yet but sometimes called "my mistress" Its ok to be out in the garage effing around with the mistress
Dale
Mine is called Tango (for obvious reasons) or "the Toy"
Colleague from spain calls it Vandy as in Vindicator Andy
And the girls at the dance school call in "the carrot on wheels"