XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ford TELSTAR 1993-1997

The GE-platform Ford Telstar sits in an awkward middle ground for anyone trying to sharpen one up in 2026: a front-wheel-drive saloon-or-hatch with soft factory damping tuned for comfort on Australian and Pacific-market roads, and a parts shelf that thinned out years ago. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is aimed squarely at that owner – the one keeping a 1993-1997 Telstar on the road as a fast-road daily that occasionally sees a weekend track session.

What the Super Sport does for this chassis is take the float out of it. The Telstar’s standard struts let the nose dive under braking and roll lazily into mid-corner, which masks what is actually a willing front end. Drop the ride height a sensible amount, firm up the damping, and the car starts behaving like a saloon that was always meant to be driven harder.

What this coilover does for your 1993-1997 Ford Telstar

Fitted to the FO18 chassis, the Super Sport gives you height adjustment to set the stance you want and 36-way damping to tune the ride to the road in front of you. Soften it off for a long motorway run and the bump compliance is genuinely usable as a daily driver; wind the damping up before a track day and the front end stops washing wide on turn-in. Brake dive reduces sharply, which makes the Telstar’s modest factory brakes feel more confident than they have any right to. Body roll on a fast B-road – the Telstar’s weak point straight out of the box – tightens up without making the car skittish over mid-corner bumps. The result is a car that feels alert rather than apologetic.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-plus-weekend-track damper, and the brief shows in how it is built. Ride height adjusts independently from spring preload, and the 36-way damping knob spans the range from supple road compliance to firm circuit settings on a single click-detented adjuster. XYZ’s stated design intent is to eliminate the discomfort that bumps and rough surfaces send through a stiffer suspension – and on a 1990s saloon with factory bushes still in place, that matters. This is a high-performance damper engineered for both weekend race use and daily driving, which is the right brief for a Telstar owner who isn’t running a dedicated trailer queen. Set once for the road, adjust at the circuit, return home on the same coilover.

Fitment for the Ford Telstar (1993-1997)

This coilover is built for the FO18 generation Ford Telstar, covering model years 1993 through 1997. Confirm your chassis code against the configurator below before ordering, as the Telstar shared platform components with several Mazda-derived siblings and getting the right reference matters.

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Pick your spring rates and finish your spec in the configurator below.