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I think the car was more of an evil type entity that was brought to life by the previous owners hatred and such. I don't think there existed a real Christine before

......pretty sure the car was simply named Christine based on the stereotype that men usually refer to their cars as female and give them female names.....

A bit of overthinking going on here. I think Andrea has pegged it. Men and their cars. Remember the Shania Twain line "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight..." Bit of that I imagine.

I have always viewed Christine as kin to a Buick 8. Somehow the death and hate the circled around LeBay entered into Christine. I read the book sometime ago but remember something about Lebay being possessed. Something happened to him in childhood and I always assumed that the entity passed on into the car. There is nothing in the book about this but I always that that the entity would only leave Lebay for a price. That price was his daughters life. If you remember she choked in the back of the car. Her death gave LeBay freedom and the demon possessed the car afterwords. LeBay was an ass but lamented the death of his daughter and let the car/demon rust. He need the demon in his youth but not anymore. The demon grow weak without someone to need it. Then Arnie cam along and suppplied the need/desire for power/strength. That is what the demon fed on.
Anyway that is all made up in my head. My own backstory that I made for myself from bits and pieces of the book.

Davor

...erm, did you actually read the book?

I believe it was meant to either be a ghost/possession type of thing sort of like a ghost in a house or a manifestation of the previous owner's hatred as was previously mentioned in this thread. Since it wasn't really addressed in detail, I bet on it being a simple explanation such as a haunting though.

All I know is that I loved the book.

Heck, I thought it was named after my ex-wife.

this kinda proved useless to me, I'm not looking for "if it was the car or the boy that was evil" I'm looking to figure out what TYPE of entity Christine is, she isn't a demon, demons can only posses things temporarily, it takes them work to be able to hold onto something, especially something as complex as a car.. i seem to recall a children's horror film known as Monster House, in which the house is possessed by the old lady who's husband built it, Christine follows along the same line of entity, but she wasn't a person to start out with, nor was LeBay ever a part of her until after he died. anybody have an idea what I am refering to and how to point me in the right direction? she's not a Speed-Demon (ie Hurby The Love Bug, which is complete opposite in persona to Christine) because a Speed Demon just goes really fast... Christine could drive anywhere, and could manipulate her entire body.. as well as a speed demon is not a sentient being, all a speed demon knows how to do is drive. as i said, anybody wanna help me here? that would be awesome.

It is probably a demon from todash, who made its home into the car and started to influence its drivers, a similar entity to the evil spirits from The Shining and Pet Semetary.

I was thinking the same thing as many who have posted on here, it is possessed by the original owner's spirit.
This cannot be the case however, for the opening scene shows the car slamming the hood on a factory worker's Hand, and killing (by suffocation like the junkyard owner most likely) another worker who ashes his cigar on the seat.

John Carpenter pretty much states that the car is simply possessed by supernatural forces. I suppose a cop-out, but it also ties up loose ends by implying the car is basically chosen to be evil off the lot.

I'm reading comments/answers based on 2 different sources, the movie & the book. The movie is not the same as the book and has many differences so depending on which source you are referring I will explain from the book.

The car Christine in the book is just a car. Christine was the name given to it like any guy naming his vehicle. The car itself was a premise about bringing out the worst in a relationship. Such as the original owner he had an unhealthy relation with the car as did the main character Arnie. The car itself had a power over it's owners or who gazed upon it. Sort of like love at first sight with wicked intentions.

As the original owner died off he came back and still wanted to be with his car. In simple terms obsessive/dependent on people treating his "baby" right. Which leads to the point of the book about a love triangle of Arnie loving the car and the original dead owner still loving the car.

Christine the car just had a psychic allurement that both characters saw and others did not. Christine was not a sentient being like a girlfriend even though her owners tried treating her like one. It might seem like Christine was a demon but all the gore and crap that happened when he drove it around, was the original owner who was a ghost.

Now why did the car have that psychic allurement, there is no answer to that. This is how Stephen King books look at human nature and psychology. A question and moral of the story is "Why do guys have a love relationship with their car when in reality it is nothing but a vehicle?" Also "Is having an unhealthy obsession with a car really worth all the dynamics and problems that come along with it?"

Christine was named after Stephen King's first wife...a woman that made his life, and love for classic cars, a living hell. The book is revenge.....(allegedly)