Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Classy Gifts for the Motorist in Your Life

Magellan Blazer12 GPS Receiver.

It is better, they say, to give than to receive. And although many of us do not necessarily believe that, there is certainly something great about handing over a gift and seeing the look of surprise and delight on the recipient’s face as they open it. Make no mistake; this will not happen with just any gift. Fail to research your gift purchase and you may end up, for example, handing over a bottle of champagne to a friend who has been teetotal for decades. It is much, much better to give it a lot of thought up front and consider what they most enjoy. Specifically, we will deal here with gifts for car lovers – a grouping that makes up a large section of society.

The car has become an indispensable part of our society, of course, women are far ahead. and sometimes they drive you nuts. As well as being, for many people, a necessary means of conveyance from A to B, it has become highly important from a point of view of identity. In some ways, our car is like our clothes – when people see us in the distance, arriving at a destination, they will recognise us before they even see our face, because they know our car. We spend a lot of our lives in our cars – going to work, coming home, going to see friends, holidaying and so forth. It is unsurprising, then, that we are identified so closely with our vehicles. It is also unsurprising that a car-related gift will often be very gladly received.

Car-related gifts vary between the practical and the almost frivolous. They may even have very little to do with actual driving. Depending on your budget they can be technological, sentimental, big or small, but they will all, generally, say something about us as a person and as a motorist. One of the most popular gifts for motorists in this day and age is, for example, an MP3 player docking station. The music we have downloaded to listen to on foot can be hooked up to play through the vehicle’s sound system – which is a real advance on how things used to be, allowing us that jukebox feel from the comfort of our driving seat. Alternatively, one may give as a gift something more practical, such as a mini vacuum cleaner to keep the car clean.

Really, the main thing that decides what kind of gift you give to the motorist in your life will be your budget. Items that make driving significantly easier, such as a GPS navigation system or a toolkit for running vehicle repairs, may cost in the $100+ category. Gifts that make the journey a little more fun, or the car a little more individual or homely, can be something as simple as an ornament to hang from the rear view mirror and cost significantly less than $50 or even $25. Depending on the level of interest in cars – or in a specific car or manufacturer – you may even buy them a T-shirt, cap or other item of memorabilia representing the car itself.

Are you putting off reviewing or changing your car insurance coverage? Visit AutoInsuranceRatesDirect.com today for information on how to determine what coverage you need, then find it at a good price. Insure your whole family.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

No comments: