XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Lexus ES (XV60) (80mm center-to-center) 2012-2018

The Lexus ES (XV60)’s cushioned, comfort-first suspension tune is exactly what most owners bought it for – and exactly what starts working against you the moment you push the car through a B-road bend or onto a track day. Factory dampers built to isolate a big FWD saloon from expansion joints trade away body control, and that shows up as roll under load and a vague, delayed turn-in when you actually want to lean on the front axle.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the ES (XV60) (2012-2018) is built for exactly that gap: fast-road driving with the odd weekend track session, without turning the car into something that beats you up on the commute. Ride height and damping are both adjustable, so the setup can sit closer to a firm daily than a stripped-out track special.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2018 Lexus ES (XV60)

Drop the ride height and firm up the dampers and the ES stops leaning into corners the way it does from the factory – the nose sits down under braking instead of diving, and the rear stays flatter through direction changes instead of following a beat behind the front. The 36-way damping adjustment means you can run compression and rebound soft enough to keep the cabin liveable on a daily commute, then wind it up firmer for a track day without swapping parts. Because ride height adjusts independently of damping, you can correct the stock car’s slightly nose-low stance and get the geometry closer to neutral before you touch anything else. For a heavy FWD saloon like the ES, less roll and sharper weight transfer under braking is what actually changes how the car behaves in a corner, not just how it sits.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing built the Super Sport line to solve the usual trade-off with lowering a car – stiffen it up for track use and you normally wreck the ride on the roads you drive every day. The damper carries 36 stages of adjustment, wide enough to go from a setting that shrugs off broken tarmac and speed humps to one that holds the car flat under hard cornering, all from the same unit. Ride height sets independently of damping force, so lowering the ES doesn’t lock you into a single stiffness or force a choice between stance and comfort. XYZ positions Super Sport as a dual-purpose damper – sharp enough for a weekend on track, forgiving enough to live with day to day – which suits an ES owner who wants one car rather than a garage full of them. It sits a step up from a comfort-focused kit without going as far as a dedicated track-only setup.

Fitment for the Lexus ES (XV60) (2012-2018)

This kit is built specifically for the XV60-generation ES sold between 2012 and 2018, using the 80mm centre-to-centre mounting spec for this chassis – Lexus revised mount spacing across ES production, so this figure matters. Checking the chassis code and the centre-to-centre measurement against your logbook or the mount already on the car is the fastest way to confirm you’ve got the right variant.

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Confirm your centre-to-centre measurement against the chassis, then pick your spec below and build the setup that suits how you actually use the ES.