XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 6 SERIES F06 2011-2018

The F06 Gran Coupe is a heavy car. At roughly 1,900kg with a long wheelbase and the weight of the N63 twin-turbo V8 (or N55 straight-six in the 640i) sat behind the front axle, it was tuned by Munich to waft – not to attack a closing-stage hairpin with the throttle pinned. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover exists to rewrite that brief, taking a four-door grand tourer and giving it the body control and impact compliance to survive a sealed-stage rally surface.

This is the specialist end of the XYZ range. Tarmac Rally damping is built around one engineering problem: how do you keep a heavy chassis composed over broken patches, kerb strikes and mid-corner ridges without turning the whole car into a pogo stick on the smooth sections between?

What this coilover does for your 2011-2018 Bmw 6 SERIES F06

Lowered ride height drops the F06’s centre of gravity and tightens the visual stance of the four-door Gran Coupe – the model that needed it most of the three F06/F12/F13 body styles. The damping calibration is tuned to absorb sharp vertical inputs (expansion joints, crested apexes, kerb hits) and convert them into controlled wheel travel rather than chassis pitch. On a long, fast B-road – the closest most owners will get to a tarmac stage – the car stops floating over compressions and starts tracking the surface. Front-end response sharpens noticeably because the nose stops diving into the bumpstops under braking, which matters on a car this nose-heavy. Traction out of slow corners improves too: the rear axle stays loaded instead of skipping when the V8 dumps torque onto a patched surface.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered around impact absorption rather than outright stiffness. The damping settings are derived directly from XYZ’s experience running cars on sealed-stage tarmac rally events, where the surface is constant but the inputs are violent – kerbs, jumps, broken edges, sudden camber changes. The damper is built to soak up big single hits, suppress the secondary body movement that follows, and keep the tyre pressed into the road through the rebound stroke. That combination – shock absorption plus controlled body motion – is what generates the mechanical grip a rally driver actually feels through the steering. For a road-going F06 owner, the same calibration translates into a coilover that handles British B-road surface quality better than a stiffer circuit-focused damper would.

Fitment for the Bmw 6 SERIES F06 (2011-2018)

Direct replacement for the F06 Gran Coupe four-door body style across the 2011-2018 production run. Covers the petrol straight-six and twin-turbo V8 variants. Confirm your drivetrain (RWD or xDrive) at the configurator stage as damping pre-load differs.

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Pick your spring rate, ride height and damping spec for the F06 at the configurator below.