XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CITY GN 2019-2026

The Honda CITY GN sits in an awkward place for the rally builder – a light, front-driven saloon with a torsion-beam rear and a chassis tuned at the factory for supermarket runs, not sealed stages. That softness is exactly what punishes the car when the surface goes from smooth tarmac to broken patch repairs at speed. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built to manage that transition without unsettling the front end.

This kit is the tarmac-stage spec from XYZ Racing’s rally programme, ported to the GN-platform CITY’s geometry. It is not a fast-road kit with stiffer springs – the damping curves and stroke management come from XYZ’s actual sealed-stage racing experience, where keeping the contact patch loaded across a battered surface matters more than outright body control.

What this coilover does for your 2019-2026 Honda CITY GN

On the GN CITY, the first thing you notice is what the car stops doing. The skip and shimmy over mid-corner ripples settles. The front loads progressively into a turn-in instead of taking a moment to roll and then bite, which is the GN’s standard behaviour on its OE dampers. Mid-corner bumps no longer push the front wheel off line. Under hard braking onto a rough approach, the nose stays composed enough that you can trail-brake without the back stepping nervously. None of that comes from huge spring rates – it comes from damping that has been valved to absorb impact rather than resist it, and to release the wheel back to the road quickly enough that the tyre stays planted between hits.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is built specifically to absorb impact from uneven pavement. Where a circuit-focused coilover prioritises body control on smooth tarmac, this one is valved to swallow the jolt of a big bump, suppress the shock travelling into the shell, and get the tyre back to the surface with traction restored. The whole construction logic is about keeping vehicle stability through the moment of impact, so the driver can commit to a line over a surface that would normally force a lift. Every setting carries over from XYZ Racing’s tarmac rally programme – spring rates, damping curves, stroke geometry. It is a piece of competition kit rather than a road coilover with a different sticker.

Fitment for the Honda CITY (2019-2026)

This kit is built for the GN-chassis Honda CITY, covering the 2019 through 2026 model years. Fitment is to the GN platform specifically – confirm your chassis code before ordering if your CITY sits outside that window or is a market variant on a different platform.

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Pick your spring rate and damping spec in the configurator below to build the kit for your stage and surface mix.