Making new tires for older automobiles is more durable than you would possibly assume. For optimum efficiency, you wish to use the tread patterns and building strategies the automobile was initially designed round, and for seems to be, you need the looks to be as near inventory as doable. However, trendy compounds deliver big enhancements in security, dealing with, and experience high quality. The perfect is to mix old-school seems to be and building with trendy rubber. Pirelli introduced Wednesday that it is making such a tire for the Ferrari Enzo.
Whereas it is laborious to conceptualize the Enzo as an “outdated automobile,” the V-12 supercar was launched over 20 years in the past. The brand new Pirelli P Zero Corsa System tires for the Enzo are available in OEM sizing—245/35ZR19 entrance, 345/35ZR19 rear—and look precisely the identical because the tires on the unique automobile. However that is successfully a brand new tire, developed in collaboration by Pirelli and Ferrari.
Creating and manufacturing a brand new tire is a big endeavor, particularly when it is solely going to be produced in tiny portions. Ferrari solely made 399 examples of the Enzo, so the marketplace for these tires is miniscule.
Pirelli makes a variety of new tires for outdated automobiles as a part of its Collezione program. You will get new 185-width CN36s on your early 911, or crazy-wide Cinturato P7s on your Countach Quattrovalvole. (Michelin additionally has an analogous program.) Pirelli already made new, old-look tires for the F40 and F50, and as a part of this new collaboration, the Ferrari gave its official blessing to those. The 2 corporations additionally introduced a coming tire for the 288 GTO, a Cinturato P7 within the uncommon sizing of 225/50R16 entrance, 265/50R16 rear.
Neither Pirelli nor Ferrari have introduced pricing or an availability date for the Enzo tires. We think about they will be costly, a whole bunch of {dollars} a pop, however should you can afford an Enzo, that should not be a problem.
