The best Valentine’s Day motoring gifts

The best gifts you can treat a loved one to this Valentine's Day

valentine's day motoring gifts

by Aaron Hussain |
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Valentine's Day motoring gifts may not be the first thing you might've thought of in the run-up to the romantic occasion. However, if your other half is a serious car lover, then a car-related gift may mean something to them. It's a sign that you really know what their heart beats to, and isn't that the purpose of love at the end of the day?

Some say love is different things, though quite famously, nobody can really explain it anyway. It's a plethora of emotions that we all succumb to when we're presented with a significant other. And Valentine's Day is where those feelings are celebrated - traditionally anyway.

In that sense, if you're serious about buying your other half a car gift, you may want to consider what they're into. There are many things out there from Porsche gifts to Ferrari gifts and plenty of others. So, it's really the time to shop around and see what you can find.

The best Valentine's Day motoring gifts at a glance:

Editor's pick: Chocolate Racing Cars gift tin - buy from Not On The High Street
Best cleaning gift set: Autoglym Luxury Bodywork and Wheels Collection - buy from Amazon
Best race car experience: Lamborghini Super Trofeo Track Experience - buy from Virgin Experience Days

Nevertheless, whether you go for a BMW gift or something completely non-car related is up to you. We've done our bit to put together a comprehensive guide of the best Valentine's Day motoring gifts out there.

The best Valentine’s Day motoring gifts

Editor's pick

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Not on the High Street

Chocolates are a classic gift for any occasion, and what better way to treat a car lover than getting a set of treats shaped like them?

With a useful tin and in a range of wrapper colours, the occasion is easily met, and makes for a great share box when relaxing to a Netflix series.

Pros

  • Great gift for any occasion
  • It's chocolate, of course it'll taste great

Cons

  • We wish there were different car designs

Best wallet valentine's gift

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Not On The High Street

Perhaps one of the best ways to get to one's heart is to target everyday items. A reminder of a significant other every time you open your wallet is a nice touch, but what about the whole wallet itself?

This one is a little nod to the Rothmans livery seen on the Porsche 956 and MK2 Ford Escort rally cars. The same seller also offers a wallet in a Gulf livery, if that takes your recipient's fancy - or even the old Lotus stripes as seen on Jim Clark's old F1 cars.

Pros

  • Very cool design
  • Useful item

Cons

  • For licensing reasons, there's no car branding

Best track wall poster

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Not on the High Street

If your partner has memories at the Nürburgring, or perhaps you've both been there together, this could be a great gift to retrieve that area in their heart.

You can spend hours staring at it and pointing out the different corners where you either nearly lost it, crashed, or simply spectated other cars as they pounded past.

Pros

  • 3D track prints are always cool
  • Fits in any environment

Cons

  • Not an official piece of merchandise

Best couple's ornament for Valentine's Day

In the place of a car air freshener, a little hanging plaque celebrating you and your loved one is available for Valentine's Day.

You can customise the design, photograph, and even a makeshift song and artist of your own writing.

Pros

  • A neat touch to your cabin
  • Really heartfelt

Cons

  • It's not for everyone

Best car wax

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Bilt Hamber

This carnauba paste wax has added hydrophobic polymers to make water beads more readily on the paintwork. It's a hard-wearing and easily applied wax that's at the top of its segment as far as paste wax goes.

Pros

  • Great quality car wax
  • Comes with application pad

Cons

  • 250ml isn't the biggest you can get

Best cleaning kit gift

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Autoglym

If your partner is fastidious about cleaning their car, then any maintenance kit will be of much appreciation to them. Autoglym's luxury bodywork and wheels kit is a great set for any home detailer.

Included is a microfibre towel alongside foaming shampoo, custom wheel cleaner, tyre dressing, ceramic spray, and glass cleaner. A great kit to get any car looking up to standard.

Pros

  • Comprehensive cleaning kit
  • Microfibre towel included

Cons

  • Would be nice to have pre wash

Best Porsche lineage poster

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Panther Prints

Available in a number of sizes, the Porsche 911 Turbo lineage print is a great addition to any car fan's living area, bedroom, or possibly even kitchen.

If your significant other is a Porsche enthusiast, this is a brilliant gift for them.

Pros

  • Great lineage print
  • Available in a number of sizes

Cons

  • 992 missing

Best off-road driving experience

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Virgin Experience Days

Loose surface action is one of the biggest grin makers and the Rage Hurricane is no grass kart. It's a proper super buggy that does 0-60mph in under four seconds and reaches over 120mph. On gravel. That's something you don't want to miss.

Pros

  • Huge fun
  • Where else can you pull big power slides?

Cons

  • Dirt driving isn't for everyone

Best track driving experience

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Virgin Experience Days

After four sighting laps, you get the chance to drive the Radical SR5 track car. Your day starts with a briefing before some sighting laps before you get into the track machine.

It's a fabulous gift for your car-loving partner and a day they probably won't forget anytime soon. The location is near Hemel Hempstead and the only location you can do the experience.

Pros

  • Exhilarating experience
  • Full briefing beforehand

Cons

  • Bit of a far trek for some

Best race car driving experience

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Virgin Experience Days

Getting a race licence, gathering sponsors, and paying for a season is seriously expensive and out of reach for most people. However, you can get an authentic race car experience akin to GT3 cars via a track experience of driving a Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo.

You get eight laps and a trained instructor to guide you around. There's just one location at Hemel Hempstead and you get three sighting laps, so you can learn the track before you drive.

Pros

  • Exhilerating experience
  • Authentic Super Trofeo car

Cons

  • You'll want to keep driving all day

Best Goodwood experience

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Virgin Experience Days

We've all seen clips of intense motor racing around the Goodwood circuit at some point. Whether it's the Member's Meeting or Revival, it's hosted some exciting action from the likes of classic Minis to GT40s.

But while it's inaccessible to drive a D-Type Jag around Goodwood, you can opt for four supercars via Virgin Experience Days. You can choose from any of the fleet they have and you're guaranteed to have a blast around what is a truly iconic circuit. What a great gift for your significant other.

Pros

  • Great range of cars to drive
  • Iconic circuit that's in anyone's dream list

Cons

  • No vintage race cars, sadly

Best value dash cam

valentine's day motoring giftsVia Nextbase
Price: $203.99
Alternative retailers
Walmart$249.99View offer
Newegg$249.99View offer

Nextbase is a dash cam industry leader. Its 422GW model strikes a great balance between its high end range and more basic models. To kick things off the build quality is second to none, everything is well put together and the touchscreen is responsive and easy to use.

The recording quality can be set at 1440P at 30fps or 1080P at 60fps, which is helped further by some clever software. There are even some smart features such as Alexa Voice Control.

Pros

  • Has Alexa voice control
  • Easy to use

Cons

  • Not quite as good quality as 4K units

Best portable jump starter

valentine's day motoring giftsVia NOCO
Price: $124.95
Alternative retailers
Blain Farm & Fleet$111.99View offer
Walmart$124.95View offer
B&H Photo Video$124.95View offer

This is a power bank for a car and devices. It's made by a company called NOCO, which is one of the top dogs in the world of car battery care. This little power pack is hugely powerful, capable of jump-starting anything other than large commercial vehicles. The important thing is that it also looks after a battery in doing so, thanks to its UltraSafe 2.0 technology.

Pros

  • Great quality
  • Acts as power bank, too

Cons

  • Not a Valentine's gift for everyone

Things to consider about Valentine's Day motoring gifts

Generally speaking, gift guides should really be taken with a pinch of salt. The only person that knows their other half as well will probably be you. Like a car book guide, this is really an ideas list - an article to draw inspiration for your motoring lover. Because all interests are different to one another.

Likewise, if you're looking for 3-pointed star gifts yourself, then our Mercedes-Benz gift guide can only be limited to inspiration. However, we can at least attribute the feelings of love with optimum happiness and endless joy. And where else, as petrolheads, can we find more joy than in the things we're passionate about? Cars are the keys to our hearts, the catalyst of our work ethic, our aspirations, and even at the worst of times, our sources of happiness.

Even if in the run-up to Valentine's Day, you're struggling to find a way to celebrate it with your partner. Just think, if their hearts idle in the same way an engine does, a car gift could mean everything. If it's something humble like a VW-themed gift, that's special to someone.

Aaron Hussain is a commercial content writer at Bauer Media writing for Parkers and CAR. He is obsessed with classic cars and anything with a fascinating story to tell.

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