XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Subaru XV GP 4WD 2012-2017

The XV GP’s raised crossover stance is what separates it from the standard GP Impreza underneath it, and that extra ride height plus a softer factory spring and damper tune costs the AWD platform some of the body control the chassis is otherwise capable of. Push a 2012-2017 XV GP 4WD hard into a downhill hairpin or load the outside dampers through a fast direction change and the extra travel shows up as roll and pitch that the standard hardware was never set up to manage.

XYZ Racing’s Top Sport coilover is built for exactly that gap between commuting duty and occasional track day use. It’s the spec for an XV GP owner who wants to keep the car as a daily driver but stop dreading the next track day booking or a fast B-road run.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2017 Subaru XV GP 4WD

Fitting this Top Sport kit to your XV GP puts damping force and spring rate roughly 30-50% above the factory street setting, which is enough to catch the body movement the standard suspension lets get away from it without turning the car harsh over the everyday stuff. Broken tarmac and expansion joints get absorbed rather than transmitted straight into the cabin, and the bigger hits – a compressed driveway lip, a poorly patched B-road – are controlled rather than left to crash through the chassis. The knock-on effect on the AWD system is real: with the shock body kept in check, all four tyres stay in contact with the road for longer through a corner, so the drivetrain can put its power down instead of managing wheelspin from an unweighted corner. On a car built with a raised ride height for ground clearance, that’s the difference between vague turn-in and a Subaru XV GP that changes direction the way its Impreza platform mates already do.

About the Top Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Top Sport range sits above the brand’s street-oriented coilovers and is built around settings drawn directly from XYZ’s own Top Sport racing programme. Compared with a standard street setup, spring rate goes up by around 2kg/mm and damping force increases by roughly 30 to 50%, the calibration XYZ uses to keep the shock body under control without moving into a full race-only setup. That extra control is aimed specifically at drivers who want to push on – hard cornering, aggressive direction changes, repeated laps – without the suspension losing composure or the tyre losing its contact patch. It’s positioned as the kit for owners who take their car to track days and want it to behave predictably when they lean on it, rather than a full-time competition part that makes the daily commute unpleasant.

Fitment for the Subaru XV GP 4WD (2012-2017)

This kit is built specifically for the Subaru XV GP 4WD, chassis code SU20, covering the 2012 to 2017 production run. Confirm your XV is the GP-generation 4WD model before ordering, since suspension geometry and mounting points changed across Subaru’s XV generations.

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If your XV GP is booked in for more than the school run, this is the spec built for the gap between the two – configure yours below.