Having travelled more than 16,000 kilometres and through 9 countries since it set off from Nanjing a month ago as part of the Overland expedition team, a Fiat 500 arrived at the Bologna Motor Show on Wednesday.

The familiar orange Iveco trucks of Overland left the Museum of Turin in the summer escorting the historic Itala motor car which was retracing the legendary route of the famous 1907 Peking-Paris race, exactly a century later, this time tackling the route in a reverse direction.

The tiniest member of the Overland team, the 500, an orange-finished 75 CV 1.3 Multijet version, then left left Nanjing on 12th November in the hands of two veterans, Rocco Errico and Beppe Tenti, to retrace the long, tortuous route across Asia and back to Europe, China, Kazakistan, Russia, Belorussia, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and finally Italy.