XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ford i-MAX 2005-2010

The Ford i-MAX is an unusual base for a tarmac rally build – a tall, MPV-derived hatch with a high roll centre, soft factory damping, and a chassis tuned for school-run comfort rather than a sealed stage. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the 2005-2010 i-MAX (FO09) attacks exactly those problems: body control on broken asphalt, recovery from mid-corner compressions, and the front-end bite the standard car gives up the moment you load it.

This is the rally-specific damper in the XYZ Racing range, valved from the company’s own tarmac rally programme. For an i-MAX being prepared for clubman tarmac events, hill climbs, or simply a road car the owner wants to stop floating over poorly-surfaced B-roads, it is the spec to fit.

What this coilover does for your 2005-2010 Ford i-MAX

The factory i-MAX suspension is calibrated for occupants, not lateral grip. Roll onto throttle in a long corner and the rear unloads; brake into a compression and the nose dives through the available travel. The Tarmac Rally damper resets that behaviour. Tighter rebound control keeps the inside front loaded through long sweepers, while the bump circuit is built to swallow the kind of mid-corner kerbing and patched tarmac that defines a UK sealed-stage event without spitting the car offline. The result on a tall MPV like the i-MAX is a chassis that finally feels like it sits down on its outside-front tyre and stays there. Ride height adjustment also lets you pull the car’s centre of gravity down, which on this body style is one of the single biggest handling gains available.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s purpose-valved damper for sealed-stage rally work, and the valving is drawn from XYZ’s own tarmac rally race programme. Construction is built around impact absorption: the damper is calibrated to take the jolt of large bumps and patched stage surfaces, suppressing body movement so the tyre stays loaded through the hit rather than skipping clear of the road. That is the headline behaviour – traction held across surface changes that would unsettle a softer or less specialised setup. Ride-height adjustment is on the threaded body in the conventional XYZ Racing pattern, so corner balancing for a rally-prep i-MAX is straightforward. The whole package is set up from XYZ’s tarmac rally racing experience, not theory.

Fitment for the Ford i-MAX (2005-2010)

This kit fits the FO09 chassis i-MAX across the full 2005-2010 production run. Confirm your year and trim against the variant selector below before ordering, and check that any non-standard suspension components fitted to the car (lowering springs, aftermarket top mounts) are accounted for at fitting.

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Pick your ride-height and spring spec for the i-MAX in the configurator below.