Options for the Desk, Closet Toy Chest, Golf Course . . .

There isn’t a back-street boutique worth its weight in knockoffs that isn’t selling sweatshirts, tees, even milady’s unmentionables, daubed with bootleg automotive logos.

After one wash, that BMW blue turns to puce, the Ferrari label falls off, and your Mercedes trihedral has melted in the dryer.

Ever aware that such imitation is the foulest form of merchandising--to say nothing of the fear that ersatz might rub off on the genuine article--automobile manufacturers have started publishing their own glossy catalogs, opening their own expensive boutiques and licensing their own sacred emblems to some of the world’s most respected producers of fine stuff.

So Ferrari gives Asprey & Garrard of Bond Street, London, the right to make micrometer-accurate, hallmarked and hand-beaten-silver models of its race cars. For about $75,000 apiece. Which would buy you one full-size Jaguar XK8 convertible or, for larger families, half a dozen Honda Civics.

Ferrari (see your friendly neighborhood dealer for a showcase of gifts or a catalog) allows Girard-Perregaux to make its chronograph watches. Only Schedoni of Italy will craft the fitted matching pigskin luggage for the trunk of your Ferrari 550 Maranello. All three for an affordable (if you can afford to live in Cannes) $2,500.

In fact, spokesman Carlo Fiorani acknowledges, about 50% of Ferrari’s $28-million profit last year came from licensing its name, badge and prancing Italian stallion logo.

“At Ferrari, we call it solde trovati,” he says. “Found money.”

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This year, a boutique boom and catalog crush seems to be in progress, and from Jaguar (see dealers for a catalog) and Mercedes-Benz (from a dealer, or call [800] 367-6372) to Saturn (dealers only) and Ford (call [800] 444-4503). There’s the Rolls-Royce Collection and the Bentley Selection (both available at dealers). Also Toyota Outfitters (through dealers, or call [800] 897-0825); Land Rover Gear (from dealers, or call [888] GEAR-4WD, or shop the World Wide Web at https://www.landrovergear.com);; and the Ferrari Idea (https://www.ferrari.com/Accessori/index.asp).

“Over the past couple of years, our catalog sales have gone up 50% a year,” says Saturn representative Bob Tripolsky. “The most expensive item is a Nordic ski jacket for $149, and among the least expensive, a pair of cotton-knit boxer shorts for $14.95.”

So while she can wear her heart on her sweatshirt (“I (Heart) My Saturn”), he can wear the Saturn logo on his thigh. All Saturn gifts--just like the compact cars, and by gentleman’s agreement with the United Auto Workers of America--are made in the United States.

In 1995, the Jaguar Collection was included in the company’s parts catalog, with coffee mugs and key chains whining to be free of all those valves and fuel injectors. In that beginning, total annual sales were $50,000. This year, Jaguar will sell $1.3 million worth of goodies, from a kid’s battery-powered car to a stapler in the shape of Jaguar’s famed leaping kitty.

“We have such a rich heritage that people want to wear our merchandise and extend the ownership experience,” says spokeswoman Whitney Said. “Even if people don’t own the car, even if they are only 12 years old, they like to be part of Jaguar’s rich and grand history.”

Glenn Rizzo, keeper of the company store for Mercedes-Benz, expresses much the same philosophy: “You can’t display what you own by driving it into a restaurant. This [logo-bearing items] is a way of being an extension of your vehicle. And, in our case, the quality of the item has to be commensurate with the quality of the [automotive] product.”

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Although a majority of car catalog gifts are five-and-dime and predictable--golf balls, can coolers, yo-yos, beach towels, totes and sun stick on a clip--many are expensive. Several fringe on the outlandish.

In keeping with its Serengeti-busting image, Land Rover believes our global passport should be an $1,800 set of toss-able luggage made from vintage leather and indestructible canvas duck. Mercedes-Benz’s nod to society’s off-trail ways is a high-performance aluminum-framed mountain bike for $3,495. For the trunk that has everything, Lexus (available through most of its 178 dealers) would like to add a set of Taylormade golf clubs for $1,700.

Beverly Hills Motoring (call [800] 367-2462 for a catalog, or visit https://www.bhma.com) doesn’t sell cars but probably markets enough automotive bits and pieces to build your own. Like burl-wood steering wheels with air bag for your Mercedes ($1,495), Italian leather driving gloves ($79.95), leather and electrically adjustable Recaro car chairs modified for the office ($3,395) and that old ‘60s standby, sheepskin seat covers (about $1,400 for your family sedan).

The store also sells armored Chevy Suburbans with extended warranties that “secure against any threat short of rocket propelled artillery, including military assault rifles, full metal jacket rounds, and hand grenades.” Just the vehicle for taking a wrong turn into the Navy’s China Lake weapons station or touring downtown Baghdad.

“Our biggest growth is in electronics,” says Andy Cohen, founder of Beverly Hills Motoring. “We have voice-recognition navigation systems, global-positioning systems, portable digital videodisc players. . . . But our most expensive sale was three armored vehicles--two Suburbans and an S-Class Mercedes--that went to Russia.

“Times have changed. There are a lot of new, wealthy, capitalists in Russia.”

Must be. They spent $500,000 for the trio of tanks, then had them airlifted to Moscow. For $27,000 apiece.

That’s the sublime. Now the ridiculous but delightful.

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Available through Betty’s Attic (at [800] 294-4068), a catalog of fun, hip clutter from yesteryear. It’s a black one-size-fits-all (even Jesse “The Body” Ventura) T-shirt for $19. It carries a face and a memorable household radio message from 1937: “I Want Your Body . . . Earl Scheib, Paint and Body, $29.95.”

Personally, I’m sticking with the Wireless catalog (at [800] 669-9999) and a $35 sweatshirt that tells all about me: “Still Plays With Cars.”

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Times automotive writer Paul Dean can be reached via e-mail at paul.dean@latimes.com.