CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS
Special gifts for the motoring enthusiast
Mark Smyth looks at some of the gift ideas to spoil the petrolhead in your life
Last week the Daily Mail in the UK ran a rather humorous double page spread on who exactly pays the huge amounts of money for objects featured in the Financial Times’ How to Spend it luxury publication. There are, of course, those who do, but we thought we would look around for some interesting motoring-related gifts that are a little more reasonably priced. Unusually this year, very few press releases or even review items have crossed the Motor News desks. Perhaps it is a sign of the times so we put our heads together to decide what we would appreciate receiving as real motoring enthusiasts as well as some of the items we have come across. Motoring and watches have always gone together. In fact there are publications dedicated to this very pairing. There are, of course, famous brands such as Tag Heuer with its Carrera and Rolex with its relationship with Le Mans and Daytona. Earlier this year we discovered a brand in the UK called Omologato and then in November its watches became a...
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