Ferrari Foxy at 60

Top Gear's Summer special issue is devoted to the Italian supercars, featuring Clarkson, Hammond, May and others riffing on their fondest Ferrari memories. Oh, and then there's the show-stopping, eye-popping FXX lap.

What image pops in your head when you pout your lips and seductively purr the word, "Ferrari"?

Well, for me, it's Count Elmo's ill-fated 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta from "Viva Las Vegas". Elvis, Ann-Margaret, Vegas at it's lounge-est, and a Grand Prix in the Vegas desert. It was the first time I loved a car in a movie more than any of the actors. Later, there was the awesome 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but I saw that movie in my senior year of high school and mostly just resented the spoiled rich kids. I cheered when the car park guys took that Ferrari for a spin behind the smart-ass brats' backs.

Ferrari has a theme park in Abu Dhabi and remains the exotic car for rich bastards to show off from the safety of their climate-controlled garages. Or for idiot celebs and other douchebags to crash, in the case of the poor Enzo.

These Italian stallions are born to run, meant to piloted by a skilled and passionate racing driver, and available only to people who mostly do not deserve the priviledge. *Sigh*

Anyway, do check out Top Gear's Ferrari-fest, and allow yourself a moment of Ital-lust. Then go to Jalopnik and buy the "Save the Enzos" t-shirt.