XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Citroen XSARA 1997-2006

The Xsara’s chassis – particularly in VTS and WRC-homologation trim – has always rewarded a stiff front end and a rear that’s been persuaded to rotate. Out of the box the car carries soft springs, a tall ride height and a damper tune set for French B-road comfort, which means that under load on a circuit the nose dives, the inside-rear lifts early, and the whole platform runs out of body-control before the tyres run out of grip. The XYZ Racing Racing Spec coilover for the Citroen Xsara is built to dismantle that compromise.

This is the top-tier track tune in the XYZ Racing range, derived from the brand’s involvement in WTCC and pitched squarely at serious circuit and time-attack work in the 1997-2006 Xsara. It is not a fast-road kit with a track badge – it is a race damper that happens to bolt to a road shell.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2006 Citroen Xsara

Drop the Xsara onto the Racing Spec and the first thing you feel is the platform settling. Turn-in becomes immediate because the nose stops loading slowly through soft front travel and starts pivoting on the contact patches instead. Mid-corner, the car holds an attitude rather than washing wide on the front axle – a trait the Xsara is notorious for on track once the tyres are warm. Under heavy braking into a hairpin the rear stays planted and trail-braking actually becomes a tool rather than a gamble, which is where the WRC-spec cars of this era found so much of their lap time. Ride height is fully adjustable so you can corner-weight the car and run a proper rake for the kerbs at venues like Cadwell or Anglesey.

About the Racing Spec coilover

The Racing Spec damper is built specifically for circuit competition, with valving and spring rates derived from XYZ Racing’s direct involvement in WTCC-level racing. Every setting in the kit has come from data gathered on a working race car rather than a bench. The construction is a serious motorsport damper – not a re-valved fast-road unit – and the geometry is set up to give the kind of high-frequency body control you need when you’re loading the chassis through fast direction changes and over kerbs. Where the Xsara you’re running carries heavy modifications – cage, stripped interior, aero, slicks, an A-class engine build – XYZ Racing will also produce custom-valved shocks for your specific car and your specific circuit. You supply the spec sheet and the venue, they build the damper to suit. That bespoke route is genuinely how the homologation and A-class cars are set up, and it is offered on this same platform.

Fitment for the Citroen Xsara (1997-2006)

This kit is built for the Citroen Xsara chassis CI05, covering the full 1997 to 2006 production run. That spans the pre-facelift cars, the Phase 2 facelift from 2000, and the late VTS and WRC-homologation derivatives. Confirm your chassis code against the V5 before ordering and select your spring-rate option in the configurator below.

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Pick your spring rate and configure your Racing Spec coilover for the Xsara below.