What's in a name?

It came to my attention after my last post that every cool car has to have a name, and then I realized that I forgot to mention the RAV's name. Names are important (just ask any parent), so we batted around a number of ideas and hopefully came up with a good one. Since the car is blue we thought that would be a good place to start.

Given Avatar's recently popularity we considered Na'vi...but it sounded to similar to Nuvi our Garmin GPS.

So what about Smurfette? Cute and fun, maybe good for a mini cooper but it didn't quite fit. The RAV isn't prissy car and Smurfette just seemed too delicate and flighty.





The RAV is fast, strong, sleek and pretty. So with that in mind we came up with Mystique. What do you think? Do you see a resemblance? Never mind the fact that the character Mystique is a villain, the car doesn't fit in that respect (despite what some people may say about Toyota these days). I think the name fits the RAV pretty well, and apparently we're going with a Marvel theme in our house as Nate has taken to calling the Saturn the Silver Surfer.