XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Mazda MX-5 ND 2015-2026

The ND chassis was built around a featherweight kerb mass and a deliberately soft factory ride – a brilliant road car, but a handful the moment you point it down a loose stage. Stock dampers run out of travel over compressions, the nose dives under braking into gravel hairpins, and the rear steps further than the front can support. The XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover is built specifically for that environment: a long-travel, soft-spring rally damper for the Mazda MX-5 ND running stages, forest sections and rough tarmac liaisons between them.

This is not a circuit damper detuned for the road. The Gravel Rally spec runs softer spring rates and longer body travel than the Circuit Master or Super Sport siblings, so the wheel stays loaded over yumps and corrugated surfaces rather than skipping across the top of them. For a 2015-2026 MX-5 ND chassis – especially one being campaigned at club or regional stage rally level – it gives you the suspension geometry you actually need under those conditions.

What this coilover does for your 2015-2026 Mazda MX-5 ND

On stage, the longer-stroke damper body lets the front axle absorb yumps and bumpy compressions without bottoming, so the nose stays composed when you carry trail-braking into a loose hairpin. The softer spring rate keeps the rear tyre planted on rutted gravel, which is where the ND’s short wheelbase normally punishes you – the car stops pitching mid-corner and starts working with you instead. Damping is independently adjustable so you can run softer compression for genuinely broken surfaces and firmer rebound to keep the body from wallowing on transition. Pillowball top mounts at the front sharpen turn-in response and give you proper camber adjustability for setup work between stages. Ride height is set on the lower bracket rather than spring preload, which means you keep full travel even when you drop the car for tarmac sections.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

The Gravel Rally is XYZ Racing’s dedicated loose-surface platform, sitting alongside the Tarmac Rally spec in the same family. Construction is a monotube damper with a separate adjuster knob giving multi-position bump and rebound control. Spring rates are deliberately lower than the circuit ranges in the XYZ catalogue, and the damper body is longer to deliver the wheel travel that stage work demands. Each unit is built to the chassis-specific stroke length for the ND platform – this is not a universal kit shimmed to fit. The top mounts use a rally-grade pillowball arrangement with hardware sized for repeated impact loading rather than smooth circuit kerbs. Spring perches are corrosion-treated for the obvious reason that gravel rally cars live in mud, grit and water.

Fitment for the Mazda MX-5 ND (2015-2026)

Built to the ND chassis specification, covering the 2015-2026 production run of the fourth-generation MX-5 in roadster form. The kit is supplied as a complete front and rear set with chassis-specific stroke lengths and mounting hardware. Confirm your exact model year and trim in the configurator below before ordering.

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Pick your spring rates, damping preference and top-mount option in the configurator below and build the spec to your stage programme.