XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W213 8 CYL 4WD 2017-2023

The W213 E-Class’s twin-turbo V8 sits well forward of the front axle, and with 4MATIC+ sending drive to all four corners, that nose-heavy mass loads up hard the moment you trail-brake into a corner. Factory air suspension is built to soften a two-tonne saloon over a motorway expansion joint, not to hold that weight flat through a fast direction change.

The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover replaces that air-sprung compliance with a fixed, adjustable platform sized for exactly this: a car that’s quick enough for the odd track day but still has to do the school run on Monday. It controls body movement under load without turning the ride brittle on a B-road.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2023 Mercedes Benz E Class W213

Swap out the air struts for this kit and the front end stops diving under braking from motorway speed, which matters on a car carrying a heavy V8 over the front wheels. Damping is stepped up 30-50% over a street-biased setting, and spring rates rise around 2kg/mm, so the chassis resists roll through faster direction changes instead of letting the AWD system’s mass shift unsettle the rear. That extra control also pays off in traction: less body movement over broken tarmac means the tyres stay loaded more consistently, which a 4MATIC+ car can actually use to put power down out of a corner. Big compressions – motorway expansion joints, mid-corner ridges – get absorbed rather than kicked through to the body, so the car stays composed instead of skipping. The result is a W213 that turns in with less lean and brakes with less nose-dive, while still being liveable on the roads you drive every day.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport sits above XYZ Racing’s street-focused kits and below their full competition line, built around damping and spring settings pulled directly from XYZ Racing’s own track-day and time-attack programmes. Compared with a street setting, damping force is increased roughly 30-50% and spring rate by around 2kg/mm, giving the strut enough control to manage a car under repeated hard cornering and braking without the harshness of a pure race setup. That extra stiffness is specifically aimed at absorbing bigger hits – kerbs, compressions, mid-corner bumps – so the body doesn’t pitch or bounce and the tyre keeps its contact patch loaded. The end result is a coilover tuned for aggressive driving and track day use on a car that also has to cope with a normal commute, rather than one optimised purely for a lap time.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz E Class W213 (2017-2023)

This kit is built for the W213-chassis Mercedes Benz E Class, 8-cylinder 4MATIC variants, covering the 2017 to 2023 model years (chassis code ME33). It’s engineered around the factory 4MATIC AWD layout and V8 front-axle loading specific to this generation, so confirm your car matches this chassis code and drivetrain before ordering.

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