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qbrozen

bwia said:

Mazda unveiled its first full EV, the MX-30, today at the Tokyo auto show. The MX-30 is powered by a 35.5-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery; electric driving range numbers are not yet available however.

The Bolt is 66 kwh, so I'm guessing this Mazda will not have very good range.

oldfarmer50

Every manufacturer has engines with quirks. The trouble is isolating them from the entire spectrum of vehicles. Like this 2.4L oil burning issue. I would have never known that there were 3 or 4 versions of this single engine. I might have rejected a Malibu not knowing that it didn’t have that trouble because it had a different engine.

Similarly, sometimes the auto press doesn’t give specifics as to which motor class has issues. I was looking at Ford Fusions and read that they had internal water pump problems that could grenade the engine. It took a lot of research to find out only the 3.5L and 3.7L 6 cyl. had that design. All the hysteria was for relatively rare engines.

That’s why I’m glad I have you guys to set me straight.

pensfan83

That's about the rate I've observed for the Prelude as well, which seems to be in line with normal consumption for the H22A if no leaks are present.

During the most recent safety inspection however I was informed mine was starting to develop a leak around the oil cooler seal so that will be taken care of in the spring when it comes out of storage.

oldfarmer50

pensfan83 said:

That's about the rate I've observed for the Prelude as well, which seems to be in line with normal consumption for the H22A if no leaks are present.

During the most recent safety inspection however I was informed mine was starting to develop a leak around the oil cooler seal so that will be taken care of in the spring when it comes out of storage.

My convertible is going into the barn soon so I took it out on probably the last drive of the season sans top. Had the windows up and the heater on but it was still fun.

ab348

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

Stone said Ford is preparing for a worse-than-expected close to the year in part due to rising incentive costs.

“It’s a competitive environment,” he said. “There’s some new entrants with the SUV space and certainly in trucks as well. We want to provide outstanding value to customers, and our incentives are expected to be greater than planned.”

The automaker has been working to resolve manufacturing issues with its redesigned Explorer large crossover. Although there are “many opportunities to improve” the launch, Stone said, volumes have reached expected levels, and the company is seeing improvement quarter over quarter.

Ford also is dealing with fallout from faulty dual-clutch transmissions in its now-discontinued Focus and Fiesta sedans, which is contributing to increased warranty costs, Stone said.

snakeweasel

roadburner said:

oldfarmer50 said:

I just saw a YouTube video on a guy who bought a super low mile Corvette from Carvana. It had two owners in only 2500 miles which he said was a red flag. (Duh) Another red flag was the floor mats were missing and the paint was stripped in a few small areas. He asked his mechanic what might strip the paint and was told that doing 160 on the track would do it and they remove the floor mats to avoid accidentally catching them in the pedals.

Needless to say, he gave the car back.

The so-called “mechanic” and the buyer both sound like imbeciles; I would bet that you can interrogate the ECU and discover the top speed attained by that vehicle. And I would never buy a sports car that couldn’t handle track days. That hand-wringing bed wetter needs to be sentenced to driving a Sentra for the rest of his miserable life.

I for one would never buy a "track" car. Even if the car can handle the track can the driver? Secondly even if the car can handle the track pushing any car repeatedly to its limits puts major stress on a car, far more stress than normal driving doesn't even approach.

Anyway I saw the video and the car was returned after the buyer discovered that GM put a warranty block on it. Would you take a car where the manufacturer blocked any warranty work on it? That's the mother of all red flags.

My guess is that the car was used at one of those "learn to race" places which means it was overly likely abused.

abacomike

One of my best friends passed out while taking his morning shower on Oct. 10th. That afternoon, his wife took him to the hospital because he was complaining about neck pain and a headache. After taking X-Rays and an MRI, they found that he had fractured his C-2 vertebrae. They transferred him to Delray Medical Center after they put a collar on him to stabilize the fracture - the hospital he was in was not a trauma center - he needed immediate attention.

When I returned from visiting my brother I went up to see him. The orthopedic surgeon had told him he could either surgically stabilize the fracture and wear a neck brace for 2-3 months or he could wear a brace for 12-18 months while the fracture healed by itself once it was stabilized by a custom fitted neck brace. He chose to avoid surgery and preferred the longer recuperation.

Before discharging him last Tuesday, they took another set of X-Rays - the C-2 vertebrae was not stable and they rushed him to surgery. They put a screw with metal brace in the site and stabilized the vertebrae. I picked him up from the hospital last Friday. He is already walking with us in the morning, but slowly of course. My other friend and I take turns picking him up each morning and driving him home. He won't be able to drive for some time because he can't move his neck.

He came very close to killing himself from that loss of consciousness in the shower two weeks ago. If he had severed his spinal cord that high up in his spine, it would have been all over according to his doctor.

I bring this up to remind all of us how fragile life really is. What a freak accident! They determined the loss of consciousness was due to a medication incompatibility. Good grief!

roadburner

snakeweasel said:

I for one would never buy a "track" car. Even if the car can handle the track can the driver? Secondly even if the car can handle the track pushing any car repeatedly to its limits puts major stress on a car, far more stress than normal driving doesn't even approach.

Anyway I saw the video and the car was returned after the buyer discovered that GM put a warranty block on it. Would you take a car where the manufacturer blocked any warranty work on it? That's the mother of all red flags.

My guess is that the car was used at one of those "learn to race" places which means it was overly likely abused.

I know that BMW, Chevrolet, and Ford don't void warranties on cars used for non-competitive track events, so something else was going on. My Club Sports regularly saw track use from 1996 to 2012 with no issues whatsoever, and I have several people that would like to buy it if I were to put it up for sale. As a matter of fact, I've never had a track-related failure on any of my BMWs- or my Mazdaspeed 3 for that matter.

roadburner

ab348 said:

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

Stone said Ford is preparing for a worse-than-expected close to the year in part due to rising incentive costs.

“It’s a competitive environment,” he said. “There’s some new entrants with the SUV space and certainly in trucks as well. We want to provide outstanding value to customers, and our incentives are expected to be greater than planned.”

The automaker has been working to resolve manufacturing issues with its redesigned Explorer large crossover. Although there are “many opportunities to improve” the launch, Stone said, volumes have reached expected levels, and the company is seeing improvement quarter over quarter.

Ford also is dealing with fallout from faulty dual-clutch transmissions in its now-discontinued Focus and Fiesta sedans, which is contributing to increased warranty costs, Stone said.

There are only two new Ford Motor Company vehicles that I would ever consider owning- the Mustang Bullitt and the GT350. Everything else leaves me cold.

stickguy

I did not quite understand what the "scrape" was, or how driving at high speed would lead to that. Unless it was a Darlington stripe? That I would pass on.

roadburner

I just think the "mechanic" was a buffoon. You'll almost certainly get more paint damage following an eighteen wheeler too closely than you would taking a car to the track.

nmsck2

I wasn't quite sure where to ask this but I see people mentioning the zip code they are in when asking about the Money Factor and Residual Value...does it change zip code to zip code? Or state to state?

Sandman6472

Mike, my dad died at Holy Cross Hospital basically the way you described. He had lukemia and was being treated for that. He rang for the nurse to help him go to the bathroom. No one came, he went himself finally, passed out in the toilet area and broke his neck. Paralyzed from his neck down and put on one of those tables that flip you every few hours. Doc's said if in 2 weeks he doesn't move, he'll probably die. Two weeks to the day go by, in the morning get a call he's halucinating and I need to get down there. Get there and help calm him down. About 8 pm that night, get another call that he just passed! Very bizarre way to die and indeed, your friend was very lucky.
I know how bad nurses can be in the hospital when one needs to use the bathroom. I couldn't wait last year and went by myself. Passed out and had to have a CAT-scan. Have no memory of any of it. Put a nurse in my room 24/7 for the ext 48 hours to help me. Soil myself once and pee in the ed twice because no one came to help me when I rang the help button repeatedly. When they ave you on iv's, one has to go...a lot! Very humiliating experience.
Turns out, I passed out about a half dozen times here at home and in the hospital when I got sepsis, pneumonia and gall bladder issues back in mid 2018. Never was I ever that sick and hope to never be again! Still getting bills almost 18 months later and the hospital bill alone was over $148K plus all the doctors and specialists. Health care in America is outrageous!!
Your friend is very very lucky he's still alive!!!

snakeweasel

roadburner said:

snakeweasel said:

I for one would never buy a "track" car. Even if the car can handle the track can the driver? Secondly even if the car can handle the track pushing any car repeatedly to its limits puts major stress on a car, far more stress than normal driving doesn't even approach.

Anyway I saw the video and the car was returned after the buyer discovered that GM put a warranty block on it. Would you take a car where the manufacturer blocked any warranty work on it? That's the mother of all red flags.

My guess is that the car was used at one of those "learn to race" places which means it was overly likely abused.

I know that BMW, Chevrolet, and Ford don't void warranties on cars used for non-competitive track events, so something else was going on. My Club Sports regularly saw track use from 1996 to 2012 with no issues whatsoever, and I have several people that would like to buy it if I were to put it up for sale. As a matter of fact, I've never had a track-related failure on any of my BMWs- or my Mazdaspeed 3 for that matter.

While they might not void warranties for non competitive track days they will for cars that are used commercially for training people to race cars. Especially if they have been modified. That's why I think it may have been used at a racing school.

fintail

Oil consumption is a funny thing, I am surprised modern cars do it, and I haven't had a car with under 150K on it that burned it to any degree. Yet I see it is a big thing for some brands even today. My old car burns a quart every 700 miles maybe, but this is a car heading for 60 years old, with quite a few miles and imperfect maintenance over time. Still cheaper to add oil than get an overhaul, and it's not too far out of acceptable spec anyway:

sda

I’ve only had a few cars that burned more than a quart in less than 1000 miles. Most were older and my weekend fun cars. As they weren’t daily drivers I didn’t do any major repairs as they ran fine and if I put 1000 miles on them in 6 months, that was a lot. The oil consumption of my 06 Passat was a surprise. I bought it about a year old and with 11k mi. It was a VW CPO. At first it was at a 1200 mi/qt rate and by 58k it had increased to 7-800 mi/qt. I was told by VW it was in acceptable range. Yet why was the oil consumption increasing? With the 5/60k warranty getting ready to expire I was afraid I may have a major repair pending. It was starting to trigger the check engine light for various reasons with great regularity so I cut bait. It ran and drove great all the while.

venture

roadburner said:

ab348 said:

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

Stone said Ford is preparing for a worse-than-expected close to the year in part due to rising incentive costs.

“It’s a competitive environment,” he said. “There’s some new entrants with the SUV space and certainly in trucks as well. We want to provide outstanding value to customers, and our incentives are expected to be greater than planned.”

The automaker has been working to resolve manufacturing issues with its redesigned Explorer large crossover. Although there are “many opportunities to improve” the launch, Stone said, volumes have reached expected levels, and the company is seeing improvement quarter over quarter.

Ford also is dealing with fallout from faulty dual-clutch transmissions in its now-discontinued Focus and Fiesta sedans, which is contributing to increased warranty costs, Stone said.

There are only two new Ford Motor Company vehicles that I would ever consider owning- the Mustang Bullitt and the GT350. Everything else leaves me cold.

A few days ago I saw an older lady pulling out of a fast food place, driving a green Bullitt. She didn't fit the demographic, but she had a smile on her face.

bwia

ab348 said:

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

$425 million profit on $37 billion sales? That is an abysmal return no wonder its stock is trading at $9.21 per share. Worse yet, its market cap is only $36.6 billion compared to GM's $52.3 billion while Toyota's market cap is $224 billion.

driver100

venture said:

roadburner said:

ab348 said:

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

Stone said Ford is preparing for a worse-than-expected close to the year in part due to rising incentive costs.

“It’s a competitive environment,” he said. “There’s some new entrants with the SUV space and certainly in trucks as well. We want to provide outstanding value to customers, and our incentives are expected to be greater than planned.”

The automaker has been working to resolve manufacturing issues with its redesigned Explorer large crossover. Although there are “many opportunities to improve” the launch, Stone said, volumes have reached expected levels, and the company is seeing improvement quarter over quarter.

Ford also is dealing with fallout from faulty dual-clutch transmissions in its now-discontinued Focus and Fiesta sedans, which is contributing to increased warranty costs, Stone said.

There are only two new Ford Motor Company vehicles that I would ever consider owning- the Mustang Bullitt and the GT350. Everything else leaves me cold.

A few days ago I saw an older lady pulling out of a fast food place, driving a green Billitt. She didn't fit the demographic, but she had a smile on her face.

Is a Green Billet a wannabe Bullitt? That green Billet the lady was driving reminded me The Rhinoceros Party in Canada has these points as part of their platform;
Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. This is why a Rhinoceros Government will force car manufacturers to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green

They also want to save energy by lowering the boiling point for water.

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

PF_Flyer

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Oh, I'm gonna use that one...LOL

ab348

driver100 said:

Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. This is why a Rhinoceros Government will force car manufacturers to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green

Proper thing, we need to encourage this sort of thing.

driver100 said:

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Sounds like they want to adopt the same convention as many celebrity parents have embraced. :laughing:

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

venture said:

roadburner said:

ab348 said:

More less-than-great news for Ford:

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/ford-q3-earnings-fall-57-amid-restructuring-2019-guidance-lowered

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported a 57 percent drop in third-quarter net income and lowered its full-year profit guidance, citing anticipated higher warranty and incentive costs and weaker sales in China.
...
Net income fell to $425 million in the quarter. Ford's performance was hindered by $1 billion in special charges related to its global restructuring, as well as charges from the creation of its joint venture in India with Mahindra. Global revenue fell 2 percent to $37 billion.
...
Ford's North American profit rose 2.7 percent to $2.01 billion, but the company lost money in all other regions.

Ford Credit made $700 million in the quarter, while the automaker lost $300 million on its mobility ventures.

Stone said Ford is preparing for a worse-than-expected close to the year in part due to rising incentive costs.

“It’s a competitive environment,” he said. “There’s some new entrants with the SUV space and certainly in trucks as well. We want to provide outstanding value to customers, and our incentives are expected to be greater than planned.”

The automaker has been working to resolve manufacturing issues with its redesigned Explorer large crossover. Although there are “many opportunities to improve” the launch, Stone said, volumes have reached expected levels, and the company is seeing improvement quarter over quarter.

Ford also is dealing with fallout from faulty dual-clutch transmissions in its now-discontinued Focus and Fiesta sedans, which is contributing to increased warranty costs, Stone said.

There are only two new Ford Motor Company vehicles that I would ever consider owning- the Mustang Bullitt and the GT350. Everything else leaves me cold.

A few days ago I saw an older lady pulling out of a fast food place, driving a green Billitt. She didn't fit the demographic, but she had a smile on her face.

Is a Green Billet a wannabe Bullitt? That green Billet the lady was driving reminded me The Rhinoceros Party in Canada has these points as part of their platform;
Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. This is why a Rhinoceros Government will force car manufacturers to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green

They also want to save energy by lowering the boiling point for water.

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Sounds like the OWL party in the Pacific northwest many decades ago (70s I think). OWL meaning On With Lunacy.

snakeweasel

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. This is why a Rhinoceros Government will force car manufacturers to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green

Proper thing, we need to encourage this sort of thing.

driver100 said:

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Sounds like they want to adopt the same convention as many celebrity parents have embraced. :laughing:

My favorite is George Foreman naming all his sons George.

fintail

I thought all kids these days were given names in variations on the trite "aiden" naming convention, or replacing any vowels with the letter "y".

tjc78

sda said:

I’ve only had a few cars that burned more than a quart in less than 1000 miles. Most were older and my weekend fun cars. As they weren’t daily drivers I didn’t do any major repairs as they ran fine and if I put 1000 miles on them in 6 months, that was a lot. The oil consumption of my 06 Passat was a surprise. I bought it about a year old and with 11k mi. It was a VW CPO. At first it was at a 1200 mi/qt rate and by 58k it had increased to 7-800 mi/qt. I was told by VW it was in acceptable range. Yet why was the oil consumption increasing? With the 5/60k warranty getting ready to expire I was afraid I may have a major repair pending. It was starting to trigger the check engine light for various reasons with great regularity so I cut bait. It ran and drove great all the while.

I know three separate people who have Passats and they all use a lot of oil.

I've only had one car that used oil and that was my 79 Continental, but that engine was so beat I really don't count that one.

I guess I should check the Volvo, turbo and supercharged 4 banger... I wouldn't be surprised if it uses some. Long OCI on that too, so also good chance for consumption.

tjc78

nmsck2 said:

I wasn't quite sure where to ask this but I see people mentioning the zip code they are in when asking about the Money Factor and Residual Value...does it change zip code to zip code? Or state to state?

Yes, it absolutely varies by region (and sometimes trim level).

If you are interested in a car, find the sub forum for it and there will be a thread about lease questions. Our Edmund's hosts will provide you with MF, incentives if available and residual.

nyccarguy

fintail said:

I thought all kids these days were given names in variations on the trite "aiden" naming convention, or replacing any vowels with the letter "y".

I dread the non conventional name spelling. My parents didn’t want to name me Bradley or Bradford, so they named me Bradd. I’m 43 years old and people still don’t spell my name properly.

Lol - My niece and nephew (wife’s brother’s kids) are Madison and Aidan. Very popular. Very funny with the “Y.” I can see someone trying to be “different” and name their kid Aydan or Aidyn. Works with Madyson too.

My other niece (sister’s kid) is Isabella. Up there with popular names every year like Sophia (Sophya).

I have relatives where the parents both have names that start with M. So they names all 4 of their kids with M names. They started off “trendy different” with Mason, then went down hill from there. Madden, Maclain (from Die Hard?), and Myla. They went for the 4th wanting a girl so bad. I thought they’d get a boy for sure and would name him Myles.

I know of someone who has a son named “winter.” A friend told me his son has a friend named “Merrick.”

tjc78

My kids are pretty traditional.

Thomas (Tommy) and Giuliana (Gigi)

My wife and her sisters all have the same middle name (Marie) so does my daughter and my nieces. So all the girls on the wife’s side have the same middle name.

qbrozen

Giuliana is traditional? Never heard that name before that I can recall.

I'm on board with despising when standard names are spelled differently. Always makes me wonder why the parents hate the kid so much as to torture him/her for the rest of their life having to explain EVERY DAMNED TIME how to spell it. What's worse is that the younger generation has gotten to where they can't even pronounce normal names because they are expecting them to be different. There is actually a great skit about this very thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw

tjc78

Giuliana is traditional? Never heard that name before that I can recall.

LOL, it's the Italian version of Juliana.

I don't think it falls into the same realm as changing to Y from I at least.

nyccarguy

tjc78 said:

My kids are pretty traditional.

Thomas (Tommy) and Giuliana (Gigi)

My wife and her sisters all have the same middle name (Marie) so does my daughter and my nieces. So all the girls on the wife’s side have the same middle name.

Everyone I met were all named either Peter or Paul. And they were all married to girls named Marie. And they named all their daughters Marie

tjc78

I pleaded with my wife to let me name her Marie.... I obviously lost!

We have Peters, and lots of Joseph's

nyccarguy

For the record we named our kids names with only (1) way to spell it:

Andre
Henry
Whitney

jmonroe1

tjc78 said:

Giuliana is traditional? Never heard that name before that I can recall.

LOL, it's the Italian version of Juliana.

I don't think it falls into the same realm as changing to Y from I at least.

C'mon man, admit it. You're one of them.

jmonroe

stickguy

He named his daughter after an Italian car. Nothing wrong with that!

snakeweasel

fintail said:

I thought all kids these days were given names in variations on the trite "aiden" naming convention, or replacing any vowels with the letter "y".

I once knew a Candi Kane and one time I knew a Harvest Moon.

fintail

Maybe your parents spelled it wrong?

My cousin's kid is named Sophia, kind of trendy. My niece is Mallory, which is inoffensive, unique but not for the sake of being so. A friend has a kid named Wyatt, which makes me think of Weird Science, and another has a son named Carter, which borders on the trendy last name as first name thing, but isn't too bad. At least nothing ending with aiden/ayden.

I remember going through a list of grade school kids names for a project with a co-worker, some of the names made me shake my head. I still remember "Cash", who I imagine has an especially shouty sportsdad and medusamom. I think there was also a "Thor" or something silly like that. Hyper-masculine trendy names are also funny, but not in a ha-ha way. Definitely some parental overcompensation out there.

I'm a William, like my dad and both grandfathers. Today it might be Willym or Wyllyam or Williams.

nyccarguy said:

I dread the non conventional name spelling. My parents didn’t want to name me Bradley or Bradford, so they named me Bradd. I’m 43 years old and people still don’t spell my name properly.

Lol - My niece and nephew (wife’s brother’s kids) are Madison and Aidan. Very popular. Very funny with the “Y.” I can see someone trying to be “different” and name their kid Aydan or Aidyn. Works with Madyson too.

My other niece (sister’s kid) is Isabella. Up there with popular names every year like Sophia (Sophya).

I have relatives where the parents both have names that start with M. So they names all 4 of their kids with M names. They started off “trendy different” with Mason, then went down hill from there. Madden, Maclain (from Die Hard?), and Myla. They went for the 4th wanting a girl so bad. I thought they’d get a boy for sure and would name him Myles.

I know of someone who has a son named “winter.” A friend told me his son has a friend named “Merrick.”

snakeweasel

nyccarguy said:

fintail said:

I thought all kids these days were given names in variations on the trite "aiden" naming convention, or replacing any vowels with the letter "y".

I dread the non conventional name spelling. My parents didn’t want to name me Bradley or Bradford, so they named me Bradd. I’m 43 years old and people still don’t spell my name properly.

Lol - My niece and nephew (wife’s brother’s kids) are Madison and Aidan. Very popular. Very funny with the “Y.” I can see someone trying to be “different” and name their kid Aydan or Aidyn. Works with Madyson too.

My other niece (sister’s kid) is Isabella. Up there with popular names every year like Sophia (Sophya).

I have relatives where the parents both have names that start with M. So they names all 4 of their kids with M names. They started off “trendy different” with Mason, then went down hill from there. Madden, Maclain (from Die Hard?), and Myla. They went for the 4th wanting a girl so bad. I thought they’d get a boy for sure and would name him Myles.

I know of someone who has a son named “winter.” A friend told me his son has a friend named “Merrick.”

My son named his three sons Beckett, Bradley and Benjamin.

laurasdada

tjc78 said:

Giuliana is traditional? Never heard that name before that I can recall.

LOL, it's the Italian version of Juliana.

I don't think it falls into the same realm as changing to Y from I at least.

I believe that it is also the long wheel base version of the Alfa Giulia...

stickguy

I have a warped sense of humor, so every name my wife thought of, I told her what the mean kids would turn it into. Lost a few options that way!

imidazol97

Repeating story on names...
Near Cincy family name was Tree and sons named Pine, etc..

qbrozen

Pretty sure I've shared before, but probably long ago. We flipped a coin and the first kid wound up with the Irish name, while the second got the Spanish name. Serves us right that the first kid has dark hair, brown eyes, and browns easy in the sun, while kid 2 has fair hair, blue eyes, and fairer skin. Oh well.
13-yr-old is Liam Christopher
9-yr-old is Ricardo Enzo (aka, Ricky)

tjc78

My niece is Mallory,

That one reminds me of Family Ties

carnaught

Wife knew someone with the last name of Hogg, first name, Ima. Also knew someone whose first name was Thankful.

imidazol97

When we named our son, we were aware of combinations that might be problems especially with primer kids j using it for teasing. We even checked initials.

laurasdada

Local doctor, Dr. Chu, regularly came into the gas station/convienience store where I worked. I, of course, named his kids:

Ahhh
Charleston
Choo
Kookooka

In my mind only, or likely no more tips after pumping his gas!

omarman

PF_Flyer said:

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Oh, I'm gonna use that one...LOL

Use it but don't write it down anywhere. Safety F1r$t.

Sandman6472

My legal name is Sanford but only my dad used it when he was angry with me. To everyone else, Sandy or "Sandy with a Y". Kids were easy, I named the 1st, wife the 2nd and me, the 3rd.
Stacy
Jody
Andrew but I call him "Drew" and it just stuck. Really waned it to be "AJ" as his middle name is Jason but I was vetoed on that.

driver100

Fortunately the guy who raced Daimlers had a daughter named Mercedes, and the car won races so they named future cars Mercedes.......or I would be driving a Daimler.

PF_Flyer

omarman said:

PF_Flyer said:

Also talk of increasing the safety of Canadian children, newborns’ first names must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number, and a special character

Oh, I'm gonna use that one...LOL

Use it but don't write it down anywhere. Safety F1r$t.

Heh... I have multiple PWs that change every 90 days and not all at the same time. Feels like I'm AIw4y$ trying to think of a new one that's not similar to my last 37 PWs