{"id":6286,"date":"2015-11-24T06:34:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:00:40","slug":"baby-names-for-motor-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/makes-models\/baby-names-for-motor-enthusiasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Names For Motor Enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mum and Dad named me Skoda!<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the life events that sends people on a hunt for an MPV or some other large family-sized car is the addition of a new person to the family. I think I may have covered the things that need to be considered when choosing a family car in another post a year or more ago. But what about the new person in question? You\u2019re going to have to pick a name for your new child, so if you\u2019re into cars at all, why not look to the motoring world for inspiration?<\/p>\n

An awful lot of cars are named after people (or at least their surnames), so why not name a baby after a car? However, you should have some consideration for the kid in question and follow all the usual rules such as thinking about how the name would look or sound in the grown up world \u2013 painted on the side of a commercial vehicle with \u201cContracting Ltd\u201d after it, inserted into \u201cYour captain on today\u2019s flight is xxxx\u201d or \u201cDr XXXXX will carry out your knee replacement surgery.\u201d\u00a0 So combining anything automotive with the surname Carr is probably out (except possibly as a second name \u2013 if you have to!) or anything really outlandish (at least for Australian culture) like \u201cToyota\u201d or \u201cMitsubishi\u201d.<\/p>\n

Other names have a lot more promise, partly because they were names for people before they were names for cars. The one topping the list here is, of course, Mercedes<\/a>. In the pre-WWI era, a designer named Emil Jellinek for working for Daimler decided to honour his daughter by naming a line of vehicles after her. The cars were good and the name \u201cMercedes\u201d caught on and was continued long after the merger with Benz.\u00a0 (Note: if you have the surname Benz, don\u2019t call your daughter Mercedes.) Other good names that are now associated with cars but are (or were) decent people names are:<\/p>\n