XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Toyota CAMRY SE XV50 (80mm center-to-center) 2012-2017

The XV50 Camry’s factory dampers were tuned for a comfortable motorway ride, not for holding a nose-heavy front-driven saloon flat across the crests, camber changes and mid-corner bumps of a closed tarmac stage. That soft factory tune lets the nose dive under braking into a hairpin and lets the rear step wide when the surface breaks up mid-corner, which is exactly the moment a stage note calls for the car to stay planted.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for that moment. It replaces the Camry’s stock spring and damper units with a setup calibrated specifically for sealed-stage tarmac work, where the priority is controlling weight transfer through a heavy FWD chassis without losing traction the instant the road surface changes underneath you.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2017 Toyota CAMRY SE XV50

Fitted to a 2012-2017 Camry SE XV50, this kit changes how the car reacts the instant a stage surface stops being smooth. The damping is calibrated to absorb sharp inputs from broken tarmac and mid-corner ridges without transmitting that jolt straight into the chassis, which keeps the front tyres loaded and gripping rather than skipping across the bump. Because the Camry carries its weight nose-forward, controlling front-end dive under braking matters more here than on a lighter, more balanced car, and the revised spring and damper rates hold that front end level into the corner instead of letting it collapse. The result on this XV50 is a car that settles faster after a compression, turns in with the nose still loaded, and puts power down out of the corner instead of spinning up a front tyre that’s unloaded mid-stroke.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line specifically around sealed-stage road surfaces, where the damper has to deal with sudden, sharp inputs rather than the smooth, repeated loading of a circuit. The valving is set up to soak up a hard hit across a pothole or a ridge in the tarmac without kicking that impact back through the body, which keeps the chassis settled and stops the shock from unsettling the car’s line through a corner. That control feeds directly into tyre contact: a damper that’s absorbing the bump rather than bouncing off it keeps more rubber in touch with the road, which is where the traction gain actually comes from. The spring and damping settings on this range come directly from XYZ’s own Tarmac Rally programme, carried over from stage running rather than derived on a bench, and the aim throughout is predictable, stable handling rather than an outright stiff ride.

Fitment for the Toyota CAMRY SE XV50 (2012-2017)

This kit is built for the Toyota Camry SE, XV50 generation, model years 2012 to 2017, using the 80mm centre-to-centre mounting spec (chassis reference TO16-1). Confirm your Camry matches the SE trim and the 80mm mounting dimension before ordering, as XV50-generation Camrys were sold with more than one mount spacing across markets.

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Built around XYZ Racing’s own stage-tested Tarmac Rally settings, this kit is spec’d directly to the XV50 Camry’s mounting points – configure yours below.