I feel the same way about my car. We have always named cars in my family. You may now be thinking my family is a little odd, which it is, but that is irrelevant. At least our cars have personality. And personality is something which is severely lacking in most of our lives today.
University students seem to be coming up particularly short in the personality department.
It's not our fault, though. We live in a country where most avoid personality like the plague. Americans once danced to Elvis, who was a persona above and beyond being an entertainer. TV once glowed with individualsim, too, if stars like Ann Southern and Mr. Ed are any indication. The recently resurrected fetish with such dead movie stars as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe shows how starved for personality the silver screen has left us.