XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Cadillac ATS 2014-2026

The Cadillac ATS was GM’s answer to the 3-Series, and on a sealed-stage tarmac rally it shows its hand: a 3.6 V6 or twin-turbo V-Sport nose, Alpha-platform double-wishbone front, multi-link rear, and a kerb weight that punishes a damper not built to take repeated full-compression hits at speed. The factory FE3 sport setup is composed on a smooth B-road. Tip it into a closed-road stage with patched tarmac, surface changes mid-corner and the occasional shut-eye crest, and the standard dampers run out of stroke and out of ideas.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the Cadillac ATS is built for exactly that environment. It is a sealed-stage tarmac rally damper, not a circuit kit pressed into rally duty – the valving and stroke priorities are different, and that is the point.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2026 Cadillac ATS

A tarmac rally damper has to do two jobs that a track coilover does not: survive a big single-hit compression without packing down, and recover the contact patch quickly enough that the next mid-corner ripple does not unload the inside tyre. That is what you feel on the ATS. The car sits flatter through a long fourth-gear sweeper with a broken surface, the front axle stops washing wide when the tarmac changes from grippy to polished, and trail-braking into a hairpin no longer asks the rear to step out on every bump strike. The Alpha chassis has always had a sweet underlying geometry; this kit stops the dampers throwing it away when the road gets honest.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is a damper engineered specifically for tarmac rally use, with valving developed from XYZ Racing’s own stage experience. The construction is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the sort of mid-stage jolt that compresses the damper hard and fast – and to control the body so the chassis is not still rebounding when you need it to take the next input. Suppressing that secondary body movement is what increases tyre traction on a rough surface, because the contact patch is loaded for longer and unloaded less often. The settings come straight out of XYZ Racing’s tarmac rally programme rather than a generic motorsport menu. Construction priorities favour stroke, seal life and heat tolerance over the ultra-low-speed circuit refinement you would find on the Top Sport line.

Fitment for the Cadillac ATS (2014-2026)

This kit is matched to the Cadillac ATS, chassis code CA03, covering model years 2014 to 2026 – the full Alpha-platform ATS production run including saloon, coupe and the V variants on the same architecture. Confirm your trim and engine option when configuring; the V-Sport twin-turbo and 3.6 V6 cars share the same suspension hard-points.

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Configure your Tarmac Rally spec for the ATS below – spring rates, ride height and damping options are selectable on the next step.