Although most of the reasons given here for a feminine name are much more entertaining than mine, I thought I would offer up a bit of language trivia. Most any vessel of transport, like an auto, a ship or boat, a plane, even a motorcycle, is commonly referred to as a "she" or "her". This probably traces back to a Latin word for a ship, navis that is a feminine noun, and has carried forward as new things that carry people were invented. It makes more sense to us to give a vehicle a feminine noun because our language is based largely on Latin root words. In other languages, Germanic based (German, Russian for example), it is not as common for a vehicle to have a feminine name. Don't let the political correct crowd in on this or we'll have to start calling our vehicles some transgender name like "Pat" so as not to offend any one gender, but just piss them both off!