Twenty-five years later, an automotive legend that characterised the early 1980s is back: the exclusive Golf GTI Pirelli. The car, which will be available a few weeks after the Frankfurt Motor Show (September 2007), was presented this past Thursday at the Woethersee Volkswagen Rally in Austria.

The new Golf GTI Pirelli, like its predecessor from 1983, combines Italian and German styling and technology. The key features of the new car (available in 4 colors) are the unique 18″ 5P Pirelli light alloy wheels, the interior styling inspired by the tread pattern of the new Pirelli P Zero and the most powerful performance specification ever created for a GTI. The direct injection turbocharged engine produces 230 hp.
Naturally, the tires are the most advanced Pirelli products on the market, the new P Zeros
developed for supercars and fitted as original equipment on the world’s greatest high
performance cars. The 1983 Golf Pirelli went down in history as having made a decisive
contribution to the success of the high performance compact car segment and for having set something of a record: 10,500 vehicles produced and sold in just six months.

Pirelli Tire North America specializes in the manufacture and marketing of highperformance
car, light truck and motorcycle tires and currently has four of its highly advanced MIRS (Modular Integrated Robotized System) modules in operation in its newest automated production facility in Rome, Georgia, to better serve the American OEM and Replacement markets.