Here at Votex we are passionate to find limited edition cars within the Volkswagen Audi group that have the opportunity of becoming a true future classic. We believe such a car will be the Volkswagen Golf GTI Pirelli edition.
With the help of our partners in Japan we hand select the very best of them to make sure the next owner will enjoy them to the full. Japan is well known for it's good weather and this helps the car to stay in the very best condition and corrosion free.
The very rare limited Golf GTI Pirelli edition we are offering for sale is presented in sunflower saturn yellow, a very rare colour and 1 of 75 worldwide.
The car has the low mileage of 51000 and has full service history. This GTI is powered by the fantastic 2.0 litre turbocharged inline 4-cylinder petrol engine with (FSI) direct-injection technology, the Pirelli edition is 230bhp, 30 more than the standard Factory GTI. This golf has the brilliant DSG gearbox with paddle shift and launch control option. Zero to sixty times squeeze down to just 6.8 seconds from 7.2 seconds thanks to a 30hp bump from stock. The extra power gives a little more top speed as well.
Fitted with a high contrast black and yellow Sports interior with Pirelli embossed in the headrest and tyre tread pattern only designed for this edition. Leather side bolsters and yellow stitching, heated front seats, yellow stitching on steering wheel, handbrake and gear lever, power steering, electric windows, electric adjustable door mirrors which fold away when car is locked. Two remote keys, dual zone climate control, air conditioning, factory fitted body kit, 18'' Pirelli design alloy wheels with anti-theft wheel bolts, puddle lights, front and rear flat tyre indicator, multi function computer, radio/MP3 compatible CD player, rain sensor, rear tinted windows and Xenon headlights with wash function.
All manuals and service book are provided and all other related history of the vehicle.
A major service has been completed and the cambelt changed.
Some history on the VW Golf GTI Pirelli taken from Fast Car magazine.
When buying any brand or model of car the smart person will usually look at targeting the limited edition stuff, especially if they’re looking for good residual values in the future. Sure, you will often pay a small premium early on, but over time the difference in price between your limited edition and a stock version will often continue to grow.
Residual values aren’t the only benefit to buying a limited run car though, you can usually also bank on more power over the standard version, plus better trim levels and often a bunch of unique parts like wheels and body add-ons. Volkswagen has always loved a special edition, and probably one of its most famous, especially in old-school water-cooled circles, was the Golf GTI ‘Campaign’ (as it was known in the UK) or Golf GTI Pirelli edition (as it was referred to in Germany). In 1983, as the competition was closing in on the original hot hatch and the second generation Golf was just around the corner, VW decided to team up with Pirelli and produce a limited edition first generation GTI to boost sales and see the car out with a bang.
With unique 14” Pirelli ‘P’ wheels shod in 185/60 P6 rubber on each corner, a metal sliding sunroof, part colour-coded bumpers (on Continental cars at least), green tinted glass and matte black plastic A-pillar trims the Mk1 Golf GTI ‘Campaign’ edition certainly looked special. There were a few unique features inside, too, but the one part people look out for are the door lock pins which have small dimples in the top. There were also unique body/trim colours combinations, chassis and engine codes, plus they obviously ran the later specification engine, brakes and chassis set ups. We could bore you about all the specifics for ages, but hopefully you get the gist so far without us having to do that!
The fact of the matter is, the Campaign or Pirelli Mk1 GTI was a special and unique little car and, more importantly – to this story at least – there was already a link between VW and the Italian tyre manufacturer. So, some 25 years later, for reasons unbeknown to us, as a tip of the hat to the successful Mk5 Golf platform, Volkswagen decided to see the car out in style by once again joining forces with Pirelli and producing a limited run, special edition GTI.
The Pirelli Edition GTI or GTI Pirelli came, as you would imagine, with Pirelli tyres (this was actually the first time P Zeros had been fitted to a hatchback) which were wrapped around bespoke Pirelli wheels (featuring spokes shaped like the Pirelli logo), colour-coded chin spoiler, side skirts and rear valance, plus tinted rear lenses and glass, then inside unique seats featuring tyre tread pattern inserts (with yellow stitching on the seats, steering wheel and gear lever). The cars either came in black, silver or bright yellow and all boasted the larger power (227bhp rather than the stock GTI’s 197bhp) TFSI engine – basically Edition 30 spec – with lower and stiffer suspension thrown in to the mix as well.
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