XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Greatwall COOLBEAR 2009-2015

The Greatwall Coolbear is a tall, short-wheelbase city hatch that was never meant to see a stage rally start line – which is exactly why the cars still running them tend to belong to drivers who know what they are doing with a high-roof platform. The Tarmac Rally coilover is built to give that boxy, light front end the body control it needs to survive sealed-stage stints without the top hamper pitching the car around on every direction change.

Compared to a fast-road kit, this is a sharper, busier damper aimed at a single job: keeping the contact patch loaded over broken tarmac, bumps and kerb strikes that would unsettle a softer set-up. Set up correctly for the GR01 chassis, it tightens roll response and recovers the car from mid-corner hits without the lurch that a tall city hatch will otherwise give you.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2015 Greatwall Coolbear

On the GR01 the first thing you feel is the head-toss going away. A factory Coolbear leans early and recovers slowly, and the Tarmac Rally damping pulls that out of the car so the front tyres stop being asked to share work with a body that is still moving. Turn-in becomes a single event rather than a two-stage one.

Across cratered surfaces the damper absorbs the initial jolt and then settles inside one cycle, which is the behaviour you actually want over a rally-spec road – not soft, but quick to recover. Traction over secondary bumps improves, braking stays straighter under load, and the car stops wandering between cambers. Ride height is adjustable so you can run a sensible stage height rather than the slammed look a road kit is set up around.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is engineered around one use-case: sealed-stage rallying, where the surface is paved but broken, patched and frequently cambered. The valving is calibrated to absorb the impact of uneven tarmac and big single hits – kerbs, expansion joints, manhole covers – without losing control of body movement on the rebound stroke.

The brief XYZ Racing sets for this damper is to suppress body shock and keep tyre traction loaded across the worst of a stage surface, so vehicle stability holds up where a road-biased coilover would pogo. Settings are drawn directly from XYZ Racing’s tarmac rally programme rather than transplanted from a circuit kit, which is the right starting point for a chassis like the Coolbear that needs body control more than it needs outright stiffness.

Fitment for the Greatwall(长城) Coolbear(酷熊) (2009-2015)

Fits the Greatwall Coolbear GR01 chassis across the 2009-2015 production span. Confirm your build year against the GR01 chassis code before ordering – it is the only chassis variant this kit is mapped to.

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Pick your spring rate and ride height in the configurator below to spec a Tarmac Rally kit for your GR01 Coolbear.