Well Growler always refers to my Mugen 6-string as my "Old Man", and I was only responding to Tamara's repeated use of female pronouns for the Sigma DM4.

I've mostly referred to my cars as female, apart from one twin-cam FIAT that on good days was "the Flying Brick" (it was before I had my Damascine moment discovering Volvos) and on bad days was "The Turin Shroud". My 95mph Morris Minor Traveller was always "Queen Bitch" after a long drawn out battle with a pair of elusive faults that turned out to be (1) a poor earth and capacitor in the distributor causing overheating of the points contacts and spring that melted the plastic cam plus (2) localised overheating of the coil due to a loss of oil in the coil.

The Morris before that was named "Arkle" because the registration number started "AKL" and I tended to get it about fence-high over humpbacked bridges, and of course the missing horse was big news back then. Come to think of it, was that horse a mare or a stallion? I have a feeling it was a stallion.