XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Honda ACCORD CR 2013-2017

The ninth-generation Accord CR sits on a longer, wider footprint than the outgoing CP chassis, and the factory dampers were tuned for American highway compliance rather than UK B-road precision. That softness shows up the moment you load the nose into a fast corner – the front end takes a beat to settle, the body rolls past where you want it, and the rear axle feels distant from what the front is doing. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover is the answer to that specific problem on this specific car.

Built around stiffer spring rates and meaningfully firmer damping than the OEM setup, the Top Sport is the kit to fit when your CR Accord pulls double duty – commute Monday to Friday, track-day Saturday. It tightens the chassis without turning it into a hardship on broken Tarmac.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2017 Honda Accord

Fit the Top Sport and the CR Accord’s biggest weaknesses get addressed in one pass. Spring rates lifted by roughly 2 kg/mm over street settings cut front-end dive under braking, so trail-braking into a slow corner stops feeling like a guessing game. Damping uprated 30 to 50 percent over a street tune controls the rebound stroke, which is where the standard car loses tyre contact over mid-corner bumps. Ride height drops give you the stance the CR’s long body needs to look right on coilovers, and the geometry gain at the front axle sharpens turn-in noticeably. On a fast back road the car finally feels like the front and rear axles are working on the same clock.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport is XYZ Racing’s road-and-track crossover, drawn directly from settings the company runs in its own racing programme. It carries spring rates roughly 2 kg/mm above XYZ’s street kits and damper valving 30 to 50 percent firmer, which is the window where you gain real body control without bleeding away the compliance you need for UK road surfaces. The damper architecture is tuned to absorb the impact of broken pavement and large bumps rather than crash through them – critical, because a coilover that loses tyre contact over a mid-corner ridge is slower than the standard car. The Top Sport keeps the contact patch loaded, suppresses unwanted body movement, and gives you the stability to commit through faster corners. It is suitable for track-day work and aggressive road driving, and that’s the brief XYZ have built it against.

Fitment for the Honda Accord (2013-2017)

This kit is specific to the CR-chassis Honda Accord built between 2013 and 2017 – the ninth-generation saloon sold across the model run. Confirm your chassis code reads CR before ordering. The kit replaces the front struts and rear dampers as a complete four-corner set.

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Pick your spring rate and damping spec below and build the Top Sport to suit how you actually use the car.