XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ford TELSTAR 1993-1997

The GE-platform Ford Telstar is an oddity on a UK rally entry list in 2026, and that is precisely the point. Owners running these mid-90s saloons on sealed-surface stages are dealing with a softly sprung family car that was never engineered to be flicked into a Tarmac hairpin at full chat, and the standard damping gives up long before the tyre does. This XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the spec built for that exact use – a sealed-stage damper that lets the Telstar’s front end load up properly without the body going slack mid-corner.

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally setting comes out of their own competition programme rather than a catalogue copy-paste. The damping curve is tuned to absorb the sharp vertical hits you get from broken Tarmac patches, expansion joints and the occasional kerb-cut, while keeping the chassis flat enough that the front tyres stay in contact through fast direction changes.

What this coilover does for your 1993-1997 Ford Telstar

Fit this kit and the first thing you feel on a stage road is composure over bumps that previously unsettled the car. The Tarmac Rally valving is built to suppress the body movement that follows a big hit, so the Telstar settles inside a corner instead of rebounding into the next one. Traction at the driven axle improves because the tyre is held against the surface for longer through the compression stroke. Ride height is adjustable so you can drop the centre of gravity to a sensible rally ride height without the spring binding, and you can corner-weight the car properly across the four corners. On a saloon with the Telstar’s relatively long wheelbase, that combination of vertical compliance and lateral discipline is what turns it from a road car with stiff springs into something you can actually attack a stage in.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s sealed-surface stage damper, developed and validated through their own Tarmac Rally competition work. Internally it is configured to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the brief is to soak up the jolt across a big bump, suppress the body motion that follows, and recover quickly enough that the tyre is back loading the surface before the next input arrives. The result is increased tyre traction through the compression and rebound phases, and a more stable chassis that the driver can lean on under braking and on power. Every setting in the kit, from the spring rate matching to the damper valving, is drawn from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally race experience rather than guessed at from a road-car catalogue. It is a competition-orientated specification, not a fast-road compromise.

Fitment for the Ford Telstar (1993-1997)

This coilover is built specifically for the FO18-chassis Ford Telstar covering the 1993 to 1997 model years. Confirm your year and trim before ordering using the configurator below.

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Pick the spec that matches your stage programme in the configurator below.