I name everything especially cars, I guess I got it from the racing, seem pretty popular to name your car in racing.
Here's a list of the race cars I owned or driven
Sparky
Buckwheat
Bamm Bamm
Lil Joe
Speedracer
Names of friends race cars
The Frog
Trueman
Bubba
Bubbette
Bubba-san
The Chitney
Harvey
Norman
Buster
Leroy
I also used to have a racing buddy who named all his race engines after TV fishermen fiquiring they would all end up boat anchors someday anyway /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
For me, as passionate about cars as I am, they are just like pets to me, so why wouldn't I name them.