T’was the Week Before Christmas! 5 Gift Ideas From RPM NEWS!
You’re almost out of time!! We’re a week away from Christmas and you’re not done shopping yet! How do we know? Because no one is really ever done shopping ‘yet’.
We feel your pain, really. As soon as I finish writing this I’m heading over to Best Buy to pick up a gift for my wife. Sure, It might be too late for you, but If you still can’t decide what to get, relax, this year we’ve decided to help you out.
Whether you are a car person, or shopping for a car person, we’re going to show you 5 things you can buy on Amazon for Christmas (unless you read this after X-Mass).
Why only 5 things? Because! As I told you I have to leave to pick up my wife’s gift! Unlike you, I thought ahead.
Before you proceed, we’d like to disclose that we are part of the Amazon Affiliates program. Basically what that means is, if you click something and buy it we get a few pennies. So please be sure to buy stuff even if you don’t need it.
#5 BMW i8 Roadster
Sure, BMW just rolled out the new i8 Roadster, but these guys beat them to the punch.. Not only that, but this baby is all-electric. Can’t say that about the real i8 can you?
Perhaps you have a youngin’ that you’d like to introduce to the premium PHEV world at an early age, or maybe you’re ‘that guy’ with a garage full of BMW memorabilia who’d like to park this next to his real i8 and take funny Instagram pictures. Either way $199. is a bargain compared to the real i8 Roadster’s 165k sticker.
#4 Jiffy Lube
Gift the gift of Internal lubrication! Not something you get to say every day.
The perfect gift for those loved ones that might be living away from home. Because you know they are not going to get their oil changed unless you go do it, or make it cheap and easy for them to!
Best part, not only can you choose any denomination, but you can avoid shipping and send a Jiffy Lube Gift card via email if you’ve waited beyond the last minute.
#3 WeatherTech FloorLiners
How ’bout this, a gift that your loved ones can happily stomp on, kick and cover in a muddy, slush mess.
You don’t realize how nice it is to have these, until you see them covered in mud, or in my case salty, slush remnants. Anyone that cares about protecting their car’s interior will agree!
Bonus: WeatherTech FloorLiners are custom for for most vehicles, so they don’t look like something you picked up off the Walmart clearance rack.
#2 CHICOM Dash / Back-Up Camera
While most new cars have with a back up cameras these days, there are plenty on the road that do not. The 9.66 Inch CHICOM Mirror Dash Camera is the perfect solution for older cars that do not have a factory installed rearview camera.
Besides functioning as a normal back up camera, it’s also a touch screen..
..But wait there’s more!
The CHICOM camera includes Loop recording that will automatically lock a video if an impact is detected, plus it also functions as a parking monitor with a parking mode that will start recording automatically if an impact is detected.
These guys also have most frightening, or perhaps most ‘frightened’ burglar picture in their advertisements!
#1 The Grand Tour Game
The Grand Tour season 3 premieres January 18th and debuting just before is the long awaited The Grand Tour Game. What do you mean you’ve never heard of it?
Now you (or the child you are pretending to buy this for) can live the life of James May, Richard Hammond & of course Jeremy Clarkson!
With Grand Tour being an Amazon Original TV series it’s no surprise this game will be released by Amazon Game Studios.
Bonus:
I’ve already given you the 5 recommendations that we promised.. But here’s one more that I came across while searching for the perfect gift..
And this is one that you can enjoy all year long!
Car Talk Classics: 4 Perfectly Good Hours
Before Top Gear & The Grand Tour, no one gave bad car advice like Tom & Ray Magliozzi. And while today there are a million and one automotive podcasts to listen to, none can capture the good natured fun and ‘terrible advice’ as Click and Clack, the tappet brothers’.
“Now you can waste not one, not two, but four perfectly good hours listening to Car Talk Classics, featuring some of Tom and Ray’s favorite complete programs: everything from opening rant to bogus answers to eccentric closing credits. Whether they really help callers fix their transmissions is an open question, but the Car Talk guys certainly know how to transfix their listeners.”
There’s plenty of Car Talk to be found on Amazon.. A lot of it is free if you get the Audible Audio Edition; So if you don’t have Audible get the free trial and binge listen.
There you have it..
Now Get out and finish shopping!
And..
Merry Christmas
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