Here's a nice video of the 500 ( commentary in Italian)

Excellent!

Love the bit where the cars are hurtling down the hairpin bends on the wrong side of the road!

My car is very similar to this ( you can picture me driving down from Kandy)

Indeed - we travelled by train from Colombo to Kandy........

Going up the mountain was fine, coming back down was SCARY !

Fun. But, The only thing our fiat passes while climbing a hill is gas. Or at least I do as traffic piles up behind me.

dave