Sue Smith from Porthcawl, South Wales: “Every car we’ve owned has had a name – my husband’s car when we met was Emily the Escort, our daughter Emily is named after her. A G-plate 1.8l diesel automatic was named after my grandmother, Dorothy, as she had been her car – when we got our first Passat my husband kept calling her Dotty which we changed to Potty. I’ve always given my cars names and talked to them. It was always a dream to own a Beetle – they are classic cars and I’ve wanted one ever since watching the Herbie movies in the 70s. Kitty was my belated 40th birthday after a terrible year when our then two-year-old Tommy was diagnosed with cancer on his second birthday. After nearly a year of chemo and a major spinal op we felt we could celebrate at last, and I ordered my dream car. Tommie insisted she was called Kitty, so I could hardly refuse.”