XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ford MAV 2001-2007

The Ford MAV is the rare MPV that actually has a chassis worth tuning – a tall, soft-sprung family hauler built on a platform that flatters comfort over composure, and one that owners keep around precisely because nobody else is bothering. Drop a set of XYZ Racing Super Sport coilovers underneath it and the whole car finds a centre of gravity it never had from the factory.

This is the fast-road-leaning Super Sport spec: 36-way damping, full ride-height adjustment, and a damper valving curve that prioritises bump absorption over outright track stiffness. For a 2001-2007 MAV being used as a daily that occasionally gets thrown down a B-road or onto a weekend trackday, it’s the spec that makes sense.

What this coilover does for your 2001-2007 Ford MAV

The MAV’s standard suspension was tuned for compliance, which is generous coding for "leans heavily through any corner taken with intent." The Super Sport’s 36-way damping range lets you wind out the worst of the body roll without setting the rebound so aggressive that the kids in the back complain. Drop the ride height a measured amount and the MAV’s high centre of gravity comes down to a figure that actually corresponds to its track width, which is the single biggest handling gain available to this chassis.

Steering response sharpens because the front end stops pitching forward under braking. The rear stops squatting under throttle. Tyre wear becomes more even because the geometry isn’t constantly being thrown around by uncontrolled body movement. On a poorly-surfaced B-road – which is most of them in the UK – the bump compliance built into the Super Sport valving means you keep contact-patch confidence where stiffer track-only kits would skip and tramline.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport damper is built around the brief of eliminating the discomfort that comes from bumps and rough roads while still giving the driver meaningful adjustment. The 36-way damping adjuster is the headline spec – one knob, 36 detented clicks, covering everything from soft-daily to firm-trackday on a single damper. Combined with the threaded ride-height adjustment, it means one set of coilovers covers the use cases that would otherwise need two.

XYZ Racing pitches the Super Sport explicitly as the damper for owners who want a high-performance setup that survives daily-driver duty. The valving curve is the giveaway – it’s designed so that the same car set up for a weekend race session can be wound back for the Monday morning commute without removing anything. That brief – one car, two jobs, no compromise demanded at either end – is what separates the Super Sport from the firmer Circuit Master and Drag Racing siblings in the range.

Fitment for the Ford MAV (2001-2007)

This kit is built specifically for the Ford MAV chassis code FO12, covering the 2001 to 2007 model years. Strut/damper specification matches the OE mounting points, so installation uses the factory hardware locations without needing chassis modification.

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