Seven of the weirdest car accessories online

When your car’s generic 1-2-3-4-5-R gear knob just won’t do, why not replace it with a skull, the handle of a samurai sword, a Poké Ball or… a burl of polished eucalyptus?

You bought a car that you think looks great. You wouldn’t have bought it in the first place, otherwise. But you have this nagging thought: it’s good, but it’s missing something. One thing would really set it off… and that’s car lashes. Now that’s hot.

Not enough zoom in your vroom-vroom? Get yourself the Vroominator. This device plugs into your dash and voila, a muscle-car-engine noise plays through the speakers of your otherwise-atrophied hatchback in sync with your actual engine. It just might make your Mazda feel like a Mustang.

Before fidget spinners there were spinning wheel trims. These are basically hub caps with a ball-bearing mounted disc. As your car’s wheels slow, centrifugal force keeps the discs spinning – even when your car is almost at a halt. So you can look like you’re moving even when you’re stopped at a red light.

Dig through the bottom of your Macca’s bag for those elusive last fries no more. Salty and greasy hands all over your steering wheel – never again. With this attachment, a cup holder becomes the perfect holster for your chips, ensuring salt-spill-and-greasy-hand-free travel for the rest of your driving days. And, if you don’t want to take up valuable thick-shake space, there are models that clip to your air vents, too, leaving your drink holders for your drinks.

While they won’t give you any performance gains, these accessories help you customise your car for less coin. Dubious, we know. A humble hatchback with all this bling looks remarkably suss but, just as the guy’s sales pitch says, they “provide the impression of high performance”.

Sure, it’s a camping oven, but it’s being marketed as handy for heating food in your car. If you feel like heating up last night’s leftover pizza, go right ahead: just plug the oven into your car’s cigarette lighter and you’re cooking. At first, this seems crazy, but on second thought it’s a great idea. Especially for people who spend most of their work time behind the wheel, like truckies, couriers and other people whose car is their office. One Australian online review said: “So far this has heated last night’s stir fry, curry, lasagne, home-made pizza and stew in an al-foil pan.”

Famous moustaches: Hulk Hogan, Merv Hughes, Tom Selleck, Lionel Richie. And now: your car.

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