XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 8 CYL 2011-2018

The Mercedes-Benz CLS C218’s biturbo V8 sits a long way forward of the front axle, and on a sealed-stage tarmac rally that mass wants to keep travelling in a straight line long after you’ve turned the wheel. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover for the C218 8 CYL is built around that problem: control the car’s inertia over broken, cambered and crested tarmac without giving up the traction a V8 needs to put its power down out of a hairpin.

Where a road-biased coilover softens everything to chase comfort, this set is calibrated for stage work – repeated hard hits, compressions and mid-corner bumps taken at speed, not the odd pothole on a motorway.

What this coilover does for your 2011-2018 Mercedes Benz CLS C218 8 CYL

Fitted to a 2011-2018 CLS C218 8 CYL, this coilover keeps the nose-heavy V8 chassis settled when a stage throws a compression or a crest at speed, the kind of moment where a stock or road-biased set lets the front end skip and the rear step out. The damping is tuned to absorb a big hit without transmitting the full jolt through the body, so the chassis stays composed for the next input instead of still recovering from the last one. That control keeps the tyre loaded and in contact with the road surface through the rough sections, which matters more for outright grip on tarmac stages than outright spring rate alone. Ride height is adjustable, so you can set stance and corner weights to suit the car’s V8 weight bias and the demands of a given stage.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line specifically around sealed-stage work on broken and uneven tarmac, rather than circuit lapping or street comfort. The valving is set up to soak up a big hit, a crest, a pothole, a mid-corner compression, without the shock passing straight through to the chassis and unsettling the car for the next section. That absorption is the point: keep the body calm, keep the tyre’s contact patch loaded, and the car stays stable and predictable at speed rather than skipping across the surface. The settings built into this range come directly from XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, refined over real stage mileage rather than a single bench figure, and carried across into this road-going product. It’s a damper built for cars that need to cover ground quickly over a surface that never stays flat for long.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 8 CYL (2011-2018)

This kit is built for the Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 8 CYL, chassis code ME20-2, covering the 2011 to 2018 model years. Confirm your car matches this chassis code and V8 engine variant before ordering, as fitment is specific to this generation of CLS.

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Spec the Tarmac Rally coilover to your CLS C218 8 CYL’s exact stage requirements, configure yours below.