A truck company called iveco tried to drive across the world?
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You are talking about the OVERLAND, an italian project, composed of several orange trucks who traveled the world. I coudn't find muchinformation online about them, so I tried to translate from italian what I found. Here you go:
The Overland plan is born from the fervent imagination of Beppe Tenti, a Turin man that has made of the adventure the own reason of life.
The fascinating travel through the continents has been transmitted by Raiuno (national italian telvision chanel) in beyond fifty heading gone in wave in the arc of five years, an exceptional one portrait of the planet to the dawn of the third millenium. To cover the roads of the world means to enter in contact with people and cultures, but also to document the dramatic truths of the underdevelopment for this reason Overland has decided to become a megaphone of the Unicef, in the name of the solidarity towards who is less fortunate than we are.
OVERLAND 1 - Roma - New York: in America by land:
The first phase of the enterprise has been happily concluded in 1996, after five months of travel and a total nearly 32,000 km for the greater part in total absence of roads. Overland 1 has faced the hardest one crossing from Rome New York, that it has carried four trucks Iveco 330,30 6x6 through Europe, Russia, the Siberia, Alaska, Canada and the United States defying the rigors of the polar winter. This difficult but entusiastic test of human and technical resistance has been told in the course of a documentary that has totaled 5 million spectators very and a supremacy of I listen of 33% of share in second evening.
OVERLAND 2 - The Americs: New York - Land of Fire - San Paolo:
The second part of the enterprise, left in june 1997, has seen the four trucks of Overland to the various but much equally fascinating problematic taken ones with. The route has untied along the entire continent American, from north until the extreme south of the Earth of the Fire, through a kaleidoscope of landscapes and indeed only human truths. Overland 2 has been concluded with the arrival to Saint Paul of Brasi them after nearly five months of travel and beyond 40.000 km of distance total.
OVERLAND 3 - Africa: from City of Capo to Capo Nord:
The third phase of the plan left to the end of March 1998, has carried by now the leggendarly trucks Iveco 330,30 through Africa, the Arabic peninsula, the Balkans and on until the roof of Europe: Head North. 33,000 km of the distance they have represented a collection of samples of infinite variety, as well as more extraordinary in how much concentrated in one relatively short distance. Biblical rains, bureaucratic wars, pregifts (but also congested traffic and difficulties) have made of 3 Overland one true adventure, transmitted like always by Raiuno.
OVERLAND 4 - Central Asia: from Portogal to Pechino:
Left on 24 March 1999 to the time of mysterious plateaus of Asia Centers them, with final destination Beijing that has been caught up after five intense months of travel and nearly 33,000 km of 24 distance August 1999.
OVERLAND 5 - Midle Asia: from Pechino to Rome:
Left Beijing 25 August, it has seen the re-enter in Italy of the four orange trucks of Overland passing for Southern Asia, along a route marked from the red thread of the war with arrival to Rome 22 December 1999. Like for previous editions, per diem for images of both the shipments have gone in wave on from Raiuno. The International Year of Mountains 2002 has been inaugurated to the Palace of the United Nations to New York and near center FAO of Rome, with institutional movie of Overland that along its distance has crossed all the mountainous groups of the earth.
OVERLAND 6 - The blue ring of Mediterranean:
In occasion of the year dedicated to the Overland mountain it completed the sixth travel covering a route "the blue ring of the Mediterranean" that introduces many stages with scalings to most famous mountains of the world.
yip you sure have it was on motor world or something like that i can remember watching it not so long ago I'm sure they were custom build and painted orange (don't know the significance of this ) they did however manage it!
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