Obsolete cars take the road in Italy to reach former republic (10)
I believe the answer is:
yugoslavia
'former republic' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'obsolete cars take the road in italy' is the wordplay.
'obsolete cars' becomes 'yugos' (Yugo is an obsolete car model).
'take' says to put letters next to each other.
'the road in italy' becomes 'lavia' ('la via' is Italian for 'the road').
'yugos'+'lavia'='YUGOSLAVIA'
'to reach' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for yugoslavia that I've seen before include "Old country" , "Former European country" , "Former European republic" .)