When I was younger my cars always had a name, especially my old classic cars - a 1931 Austin 7 was 'Myrtle'. Comparatively recently a Clio was named 'Beaky' due to its registration number including BK.
I think its quite a good thing as it gives you more personal empathy towards the cars welfare and maintenance.
More recently when we had 2 cars (and for a short time 3) they were simply Jazz,Corsa and Yaris. ButI sometimes when the 14 year old Yaris had completed a continental trip of several thousand miles without missing a beat I would pat it on the roof and say' well done'
Some may question the wisdom of very long trips in such an old car ,but by then I regarded it as a 'disposable car'. Any really expensive failure I would scrap it locally.
I sold it to "we buy any car" who quote an offer price on line, sight unseen. You then take it to one of their local depots (often just a portacabin in a supermarket car park) for inspection. I was naively mislead by one of their web pages that said small blemishes are only to be expected on old cars and shouldnt reduce the value significantly. So I made little effort apart from washing the car.
In the event the 'inspector' went round the car with me pointed out any blemish he could find, and told me how much was being deducted for each . Typically only £20 here, £20 there. A bit annoying as had I known I could have polished £40 -£60 of scuffs out with T cut. Lesson learned.
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I dont know if these deductions were estimated repair cost or a set percentage of the cars relatively low value. In my case they wouldnt have justified £124 + for precautionary cover replacement. Although could have got more selling the car privately I was still satisfied with the price for the convenience . Almost twice what I had originally expected it to be worth before I checked current values. Amazing how much the price of used cars had risen.
