XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Subaru XV GP 4WD 2012-2017

The XV’s crossover-height ride is exactly what a sealed-stage tarmac rally car can’t afford – that extra ride height means more roll and more weight transfer than the Impreza platform it’s built from, and on a fast tarmac stage it shows up as vague turn-in and a nervous rear end over crests. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover addresses this directly: a chassis setup built to soak up broken surfaces at speed while keeping the 4WD platform’s contact patches loaded through compressions and jumps most road-biased kits weren’t built for.

This is a rally-stage damper, not a track-day setup wearing a rally badge. Where a circuit coilover is tuned around smooth, repeated-radius corners, this kit is calibrated for the unpredictable hit of a tarmac stage – mid-corner ruts, camber changes, and the compression loads that come from committing to a blind crest at rally pace.

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

Fitted to the XV GP, the damper absorbs the impact of broken and uneven tarmac rather than transmitting it straight into the chassis, so the car stays composed where a standard or road-spec coilover would start to skip and deflect. Big hits and mid-stage bumps get suppressed at the shock body instead of unsettling the platform, which keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded and the car’s line predictable through a compression. That translates into vehicle stability you can actually feel on a tarmac stage: the XV holds its intended line under load rather than requiring constant correction, and the 4WD system’s ability to put power down isn’t fighting an unsettled chassis. For a car whose factory ride height already works against fast direction changes, this is the difference between a stage car that reacts and one that follows the driver’s input.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is XYZ Racing’s damper for sealed-stage tarmac rally use, built specifically to absorb the impact of rough, uneven pavement rather than the smoother loads seen on circuit. Its internals are set up to soak up the jolt of a big hit – a pothole, a lip, a mid-corner rut – without that shock passing straight through to the body, which is what keeps the tyre gripping instead of skipping. All of the valving and spring-rate settings on this kit come directly from XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, not a generalised road or track base tune adapted after the fact. The result is a damper aimed squarely at vehicle stability under load: a setup that lets the car hold its line and keep traction through the kind of terrain changes and compressions that define a tarmac stage, rather than one optimised for the flat, repeatable surface of a circuit.

Fitment for the Subaru XV GP (2012-2017)

This kit is built for the Subaru XV GP, 4WD, covering the 2012 to 2017 model years. Chassis code GP is the confirmed fitment reference for this application – check your V5 or chassis plate against GP before ordering to rule out the later GT-generation XV.

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