I've always named my vehicles depending on styling, personality or even imagined gender. The minivans have always been male...Lionel, Basil, Barnabas, Casper, etc. The cars have always been female...Sabrina, Athena, Rosemary, Daphne, etc.
I guess I wasn't feeling too imaginative when "Misty" came to live with us. She shares the yard with our '96 Cherokee, "Belvedere". (I feel sorry for my son's Nissan truck...it has no name. And my daughter's '96 Contour...I won't go there.)