Ferrari 360 Modena

Saw one of these one the way to my part time job.
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...Dangit, the photo insert isn't working, and I'm lazy.  Here is a link to a picture: http://cdn-www.rsportscars.com/images/ferrari/2002-ferrari-360-modena-f1/ferrari360f1_front.jpg  Please click on it, because you'll need to see it to understand the rest of the post.

I was turning left out of my apartment complex, and before I turned I had to wait on this red car coming from the right.  I didn't pay attention to what it was, and because it was going exactly the speed limit (guess I don't blame them) I swiftly caught up.  I saw the distinctive rear, thought I saw the Ferrari insignia but got a little closer just to make sure, and yup, there it was.  I guessed it was a Modena from the back, and I was beginning to worry that I couldn't pass the car in order to see the rest of it and make sure.  (Although there were opportunities to, how much of a douchebag would I have looked like speeding past a Ferrari in Jamie's Corolla?  "HA HA FERRARI 360 MODENA see I am JUST AS GOOD AS YOU!"  ...Not.  Anyway.)  Finally we came to a street where I had to turn left, and just as I had given up all hope he got in the right turn lane; I hit the gas hard enough that I could come up alongside him just before he turned, and yup, it was pretty definitely a Modena although I did still check on MSN later.  I swear that just seeing that car made my morning 5 points better on a scale of 10, which brought my morning up to approximately a 12.

You see these cars on TV, on Top Gear and in spy movies, but you don't really see them in real life.  And although I've seen other expensive cars in person (Nissan GTR, a couple Bentleys, a Rolls, a couple Vipers, probably some ZR1s without knowing), there's something about the exclusiveness of Ferraris and how exotic and half-ridiculous they are that just made me happy to look at this one--even if according to MSN the newest it could be is seven years old.  It's such a strange feeling, because even though I know realistically that I will never own a car like that (and no matter how much I love the Exige it isn't even in the class of Ferraris), some small stupid part of me still thinks that maybe someday I could drive one.  And so seeing it is enough to wake up that small stupid part of me and get me dreaming.

In more boring news, sorry I haven't updated more.  I could lie and say I have a life, but really I just haven't had much exciting driving stuff to report lately, being as Jamie and I are sharing his car and I really only drive it to the store and to my small job on the weekend.  I guess I could comment on the sheer idiocy of Atlanta drivers, or how my husband is slowly descending into becoming an Atlanta driver, but after a certain period of time spent living here, it doesn't really seem remarkable when a BMW cuts in front of you right before the red light and then refuses to notice when it turns green, or when cars come blindly into the oncoming lane to go around people in front of them who are, yes, planning to turn left.  I suspect that once I get my brand new luxurious used car, I will drive more.  What exactly that car will be is a different story entirely, and I might actually make a post about that soon.