XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Aston Martin RAPIDE S (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2026

The Rapide S was built for A roads and continental GT touring – not gravel stages. Taking Aston Martin’s long-wheelbase four-door V12 flagship into a rally cross environment means confronting everything the factory Adaptive Damping System was never designed to handle: stone-scatter at speed, compressions that bottom a road-spec shock within seconds, and the lateral G-force through a fast gravel sweeper that would leave the ADS logic cycling through modes that simply don’t exist in its calibration map.

This is where the XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover and its companion cancellation unit come in. The cancellation kit overrides the Rapide S’s electronically managed damping, clearing the path for a suspension setup built for loose-surface competition – and eliminating the persistent fault states that would otherwise result from fitting an aftermarket damper to this chassis.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2026 Aston Martin RAPIDE S

Inverted tube construction keeps the larger damper body high in the strut with the thinner piston rod facing the wheel, which reduces unsprung mass on a platform carrying a heavy V12 forward of the front axle. Long-travel springs and extended-stroke damper bodies give the Rapide’s long wheelbase room to articulate over successive compressions on sandstone, silt, or snow-packed stages – the kind of sustained surface inputs that overwhelm a GT-oriented suspension in short order. With the ADS cancellation unit in circuit, the ECU stops actively fighting the aftermarket setup, allowing the coilover to function as designed rather than in continuous conflict with the factory control logic.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Gravel Rally series is built from the outset for rally and rally cross use – the discipline that imposes the most aggressive road conditions of any motorsport category. The inverted damper tube design positions the larger-diameter body at the top of the unit, which improves structural rigidity and reduces the risk of seal failure under the sustained lateral loads that define a gravel stage. Extended spring length and long stroke specification allow the chassis to absorb high-speed square-edge hits across varying surface types – sandstone, snow, silt – that a road-oriented shock cannot manage beyond the first competitive section. Spring rate settings have been developed and validated by rally racing teams, so the calibration reflects what happens to a car at speed on loose surfaces, not what a simulation suggests might work. For the Rapide S specifically, the kit includes the electronic damping cancellation hardware that makes fitment viable on this chassis code.

Fitment for the Aston Martin RAPIDE S (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2013-2026)

This kit is matched to chassis code AS01-C, covering the Aston Martin Rapide S from 2013 through to 2026. The cancellation unit supplied with the coilover is designed specifically to disable the factory Adaptive Damping System on this generation – without it, the ADS registers a continuous fault and the damper cannot operate correctly on this car.

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Spring rate options and configuration details for the Gravel Rally on the Rapide S chassis are set out in full below – build yours below.