The Fiat 500 has been a banner of Italian genius all over the world. Anyone who passed their driving test in Europe in the sixties or seventies has had at least one 500 in his/her life.. It is a car for today and the only one immune to the passage of time: of the three and a half million cars that were built, over six hundred thousand survive to this day. This book about the history of the Fiat 500 will enhance the legend even further.