XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Holden COMMODORE UTE 1999-2006

The VT-VZ Commodore UTE is a long-wheelbase, rear-drive workhorse with a kerbweight bias that sits forward of the B-pillar and a live-axle rear that was never set up to manage repeat trail-braking. Stock damping rounds off the corners of every input – you feel the rear axle hop on mid-corner ripples and the nose washes wide once the front tyres load up. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover is the kit that turns this ute from a fast-road cruiser into something that will hold a line at a club-level track day.

Top Sport sits in the middle of the XYZ Racing range: stiffer than the street-biased Super Sport, softer and more forgiving than the Circuit Master. For a Commodore UTE running a 1999-2006 build the brief is occasional track day plus daily-driveable street use, and that is exactly the window this damper was developed for.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2006 Holden Commodore UTE

Damping is firmed up by 30 to 50 percent over a street setting, and spring rates step up by around 2 kg/mm. On the road this translates into a UTE that no longer pitches under brakes or rolls into a hairpin on its outside front – body movement is contained without the ride collapsing into harshness. The extra rate helps the front axle hold geometry under load, so turn-in is cleaner and the rear stays planted when the tray is unladen. Over broken UK tarmac the damper absorbs the larger impacts cleanly, suppressing axle hop and keeping the tyres in contact with the surface rather than skipping across the ridges. Front-end grip improves because the contact patch stops being interrupted. The result is a UTE that feels shorter than it is on a circuit and tauter than it should be on the way home.

About the Top Sport coilover

Top Sport is the kit XYZ Racing develops out of its own race programme and then re-tunes for cars that still need to do the school run on Monday. The damping curve is built around suppressing shock-body movement under sustained load – the sort of work a chassis does on lap three when the tyres have come up to temperature and the surface is no longer flattering you. Spring rate sits roughly 2 kg/mm above a comfort coilover, and the damper itself runs 30 to 50 percent firmer settings than a road-only kit. Construction is built for repeat heat cycles rather than a single qualifying lap. The tuning brief is aggressive driving and track day work without giving up the ability to drive the car to the venue, run the day, and drive it home.

Fitment for the Holden Commodore UTE (1999-2006)

This kit is built specifically for the VT, VX, VY and VZ Commodore UTE chassis built between 1999 and 2006. The fitment covers the full run of that body shell through the four series updates. Confirm your build year against the year range above before ordering.

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Pick your spring rate and ride-height spec in the configurator below and build the kit to suit your UTE.