The Story of How Teddy Got His Name
So we got a new car (new to us anyway) a while back because the old one needed to be sent to the Auto Farm where it can retire in the fields all day or whatever cars do when you donate them (we gave ours to KEXP). This new car is a hell of a ride, I never knew how much fun a convertable could be until I got one, and it's a beautiful color to boot. There was only one thing missing.
We needed a name.
All good cars need a name. The old car was Goldie Hyundai (it was gold). The car I had in Virginia was the Tree Frog (it was a green civic that looked like a tree frog). We tried a bunch of names based on teh color of the car but none of them fit.
Looking into the history of Mazda Miatas, I found out that the name comes from the Old High German word for "gift" or "reward". Mazda of course is from Ahura Mazda, one of the names for the Monotheistic Creator God, specifically what he is called in Zoroastrianism. So if you put them together you get Gift of God.
Which in Greek becomes either Theodore or Dorothea.
Simone decided that this was a boy car, so Dorothy was out. Theodore seemed too formal for such a fun little car.
So he ended up with the name Teddy.
Makes me think of some British teen with a bit of attitude, like in Quadrephenia or something.
All in all, entirely appropriate.