Hi Marcus,
you've read thread 1360, right? It's got like 5 years worth of members' posts about the names of their Pagodas. Cees even summarized them all.
Mine is named Dagny. According to the Auftragsnummer, it was first sold in Sweden, so I looked at lists of Swedish names. A woman's name because if it's possible for car models to have gender, Pagodas are definitely feminine. (Mustangs, Ferraris, Chrysler 300's. . . are masculine.) However, that's not to say I would criticize another member who gave theirs a masculine name.
I didn't want to choose the name of a relative or close friend. I've got aunts and cousins named Helge, Gerlinde, Erika, Monika, Gudrun, Jutta, Nora, Henriette, Sophia and more, so those were all *out*. But I rather like the idea of a specific character from fiction, and I really enjoyed Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," so Dagny is named after Dagny Taggart. I also considered Dominique, in honour of Dominique Francon in "The Fountainhead," but that sounds too much French, not Swedish.
For a sombre touch, I discovered that Dagny's name day is September 11, so that reminds me of how our world was changed on that day.
Just to flesh out the topic, my Acura RSX is named Thumper, my wife's Honda Fit is named Fifi, and formerly I drove 2 Chevrolet wagons named Rigel, after the bright star in Orion. In fact the Chevrolets had air conditioners named Max and Norm. I even had a VCR named Ted. I guess I like names.
