XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Chrysler NEON 1994-2000

The first-gen Chrysler NEON was a featherweight by American saloon standards – around 1,100kg, a willing 2.0-litre four up front, and a chassis that earned a genuine cult following on closed-road stages from the late 1990s onwards. That underdog reputation is exactly why a NEON still turns up at tarmac rallies in 2026, and exactly why the factory struts are the bottleneck. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for that specific job: sealed-stage tarmac work in a light, front-driven saloon that needs its damping to do real work between hairpins.

This is not a fast-road kit dressed up in rally language. The Tarmac Rally series sits in a different part of the XYZ Racing range to the Super Sport and Top Sport coilovers – it is set up around the way a stage car has to behave when the surface goes from billiard-smooth asphalt to a patched, cambered, mid-corner crest at competition pace.

What this coilover does for your 1994-2000 Chrysler NEON

On a stage car the priority is not outright stiffness, it is keeping the contact patch loaded when the road stops being flat. The Tarmac Rally damping is tuned to soak up sharp pavement edges – kerb strikes, broken seams, the compression at the bottom of a dip – without unloading the tyre on the way back out. For a NEON, where the front axle is doing most of the work under braking and turn-in, that translates to a front end that stays bitey on corner entry and a rear that follows through rotation cleanly rather than skipping wide.

You also get the ride-height adjustment to drop the centre of gravity to a sensible competition stance and the damping range to retune the car between an early-morning recce and a late-afternoon stage as the surface and tyre temperature change.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is engineered specifically for sealed-stage rally use, where the loads are huge but the surface is still asphalt rather than gravel. Where a fast-road coilover prioritises ride comfort and a circuit coilover prioritises platform control, this kit is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement at competition speed – the big single hits and the smaller repeated jolts that a stage surface throws at the suspension.

The damping settings are drawn directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, which is the reason the curve is shaped the way it is: shock-body movement is suppressed quickly so the chassis stops pitching after a hit, and the recovery is controlled enough to keep tyre traction loaded into the next input. Vehicle stability is the design target rather than outright stiffness, because a stage car that snaps loose over a mid-corner bump loses more time than one that simply rides the bump and keeps driving.

Fitment for the Chrysler NEON (1994-2000)

This kit is built for the first-generation Chrysler NEON (chassis code CR02), covering model years 1994 through 2000 in both saloon and coupe bodies. The kit is supplied as a front-and-rear set matched to the factory mounting points for that chassis.

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