Pirelli Tires - Still Making Performance Tires After 140 Years

Have you been looking for high performance tires for your sports cars or street machines? If so, Pirelli Tires may be able to help. Here's a look at Italy's finest tire company.

Based out of Milan, Italy, Pirelli Tires is approximately 140 years old. Of course, cars were not even being made 140 years ago, but the company was selling rubber for other uses before that.

Pirelli Tires actually started by producing rubber and selling it to other companies that made horse carriages and bicycles. At that time, it was difficult to find quality tires for your carriage and Pirelli filled the need.

As the company evolved, they began to also manufacture their own line of products. Rubber tires and cables were the first products the company produced. It was only in the past few years that Pirelli sold off its rubber cable business and now solely builds tires.

Pirelli Tires is not a well known brand for several reasons. Not only are they a foreign brand for us here in the U.S. but they do not produce tires for normal every day type use. They concentrate on high performance and racing tires. Naturally, this is a much smaller market segment.

Pirelli Tires are used in auto racing throughout the world and are associated with quality and performance. They are used on road courses and rally's, as well as on Indy style cars.

So, if high performance tires are on your list, take a look at Pirelli Tires and what they have to offer. You may be quite pleased.