XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Citroen SAXO 1996-2003

The Citroen SAXO is a featherweight front-driver that rewards stiffer springs and tighter damping more honestly than almost anything else of its era. Strip out the soggy factory struts on a VTR or VTS and the chassis underneath wakes up – quick-steering, eager to rotate on a trailed brake, and light enough that you feel every kilo of unsprung weight you can save. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the spec to fit when you want that chassis sharpened for fast road work and the occasional Cadwell or Anglesey weekend, without turning the car into a kidney-punishing track-only build.

Where the OEM dampers run out of control over mid-corner ripples and the nose-up squat that defines a hard-launched SAXO, the Super Sport puts both ride height and damping back under your control. It is the right pick for an owner who drives the car daily or weekly and wants one setup that survives B-road potholes on Friday and a sighting lap at Donington Park on Sunday.

What this coilover does for your 1996-2003 Citroen SAXO

Drop the front of a SAXO 20-30mm on the Super Sport and the steering response sharpens immediately – less roll into a quick direction change, less dive under braking into a slow corner. The 36-way damping adjustment is the headline feature here, because a 900kg front-drive hatch is hyper-sensitive to rebound: too soft and the inside rear lifts and skips, too firm and the car pogos over crests. Working through the 36 clicks lets you find a setting that keeps the contact patch loaded without skating across surface changes. Threaded ride-height adjustment also means you can corner-balance the car properly, which matters more on a SAXO than people realise – factory tolerances on these shells were generous, and a well-set coilover hides a lot of chassis variation. On bumpy British B-roads the Super Sport stays composed where the standard struts would be crashing through their travel.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s dual-purpose damper, built specifically for owners who refuse to choose between road usability and circuit composure. The 36-way damping adjustment controls bump and rebound on a single dial per corner, so dialling the car in does not require a stopwatch and a spreadsheet – you can feel each click. Ride height is fully threaded at the lower mount, which keeps spring preload independent of ride height, the correct way to set up a coilover. The damper internals are tuned to absorb sharp inputs – expansion joints, broken tarmac, the surface change at a circuit entry – rather than transmit them through to the cabin, which is the failing of cheaper threaded-body kits. It is engineered specifically for fast-road and weekend track use, meaning the valving is biased to compliance and grip rather than the locked-down feel of a slick-tyre setup.

Fitment for the Citroen SAXO (1996-2003)

This kit is built specifically for the Citroen SAXO chassis CI04, covering the full 1996 to 2003 model run. That spans the early 1.1 and 1.4 cars as well as the VTR and VTS hot hatches that most enthusiasts are upgrading. Mounting hardware and damper length are matched to the SAXO strut towers as standard.

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Pick your spring rate and ride-height preference in the configurator below to build your SAXO Super Sport kit.