XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Kia PRIDE 1.5 VGT 2005-2011

The Kia Pride 1.5 VGT is a sub-tonne front-driver with short overhangs, a willing diesel under the bonnet and a chassis that rewards commitment on a sealed stage – which is exactly the brief the XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover was developed against. On a rough Welsh forestry link road or a closed-public-road stage, the standard dampers run out of travel and the front end skates wide on broken cambers. This kit is the answer.

Built from XYZ Racing’s tarmac-stage programme rather than circuit work, the Tarmac Rally is tuned to soak up kerbs, crests and patched repairs without unloading a wheel mid-corner. For a lightweight hatch like the Pride VGT, that translates into a car that finally puts its torque down out of slow hairpins instead of scrabbling for grip.

What this coilover does for your 2005-2011 Kia Pride 1.5 VGT

After installation the Pride VGT sits flatter under braking into a 90-left and stops trying to lift an inside rear over compressions. The damping profile is biased toward bump absorption, so the front tyre stays loaded across coarse-chip surfaces where a stiffer circuit setup would skip and wash. You feel it most in the mid-corner: the chassis holds a line over expansion joints and patch repairs that would normally upset the standard car. Turn-in is sharper without becoming nervous, and the rear axle – light and prone to stepping out on lift – is calmer because it isn’t being asked to manage abrupt weight transfer. Ride height adjustment lets you set the car for a specific stage profile, dropping the centre of gravity for fast tarmac or raising it for a rougher classic-rally surface.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s stage-tarmac damper, developed specifically to absorb the kind of impacts a sealed-stage car takes from broken pavement, kerbs and crested junctions. The valving is set up to suppress body movement when the chassis is loaded across a bump – the wheel recovers quickly, the tyre stays in contact with the road, and traction holds through the moment most other setups skip. XYZ Racing describe the result as vehicle stability that lets the driver lean on the car, and the settings carry over directly from their own tarmac rally racing programme rather than being adapted from a circuit kit. Height-adjustable construction allows the Pride VGT to be corner-weighted and dropped to a competition ride height, and the unit is intended for hard, repeat use across a stage rather than one-off track sessions.

Fitment for the Kia Pride 1.5 VGT (2005-2011)

This kit is specified for the 1.5 VGT-engined Kia Pride built between 2005 and 2011, chassis code VGT. It is a direct-fit coilover for that variant – confirm your build year against the supplied year span before ordering, and check your spec selections in the configurator below.

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Spec your Tarmac Rally kit for the Pride VGT in the configurator below and build it to your stage profile.