XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Porsche PANAMERA (970) RWD (NOT AIR STRUT) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2009-2016

The Panamera 970’s kerb weight, well north of 1800kg before you add options, turns every hard stop and every direction change into a mass-transfer problem that Porsche’s factory electronics were built to mask rather than solve. Fit a set of Tarmac Rally coilovers to the RWD 970 and that weight stops being something the ECU guesses at lap by lap – it becomes something you set up for directly.

This kit targets the sealed-stage tarmac rally build on the 970 base: threaded-body ride height and damping adjustment tuned to absorb the compression hits a fast, rough closed road throws at a car this size, without the rear end settling into a wallow through a long, committed corner.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Porsche Panamera

Fit these to a RWD Panamera and the first thing you’ll notice under braking into a hairpin is how much less the nose dives – the front end stays loaded rather than diving, keeping front-tyre grip where you need it through trail braking. At the rear, the sealed-stage rally tune controls the big, fast compressions thrown up by cambered tarmac and mid-corner ruts, so the back of the car stays planted instead of stepping wide when you get back on the throttle early. Ride height and damping are both adjustable, which matters on a car this heavy: wind in more support for a fast, smooth stage, or back it off where the surface grip is lower. Removing the factory PASM electronics also strips out the variability of a system trying to guess load and road speed in real time – what you set stays consistent, corner to corner.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line specifically for sealed-stage work on rough, cambered public-road surfaces, not smooth circuit tarmac. The valving is set to soak up the impact of pockmarked and patched road surfaces without punching that hit straight into the chassis, while still controlling the bigger jolts from mid-corner bumps and crests so the body isn’t thrown off line. That balance of impact absorption and body control is what keeps the tyre loaded and gripping instead of skipping across the surface, which matters more on a car carrying Panamera-sized mass than it does on something lighter. The spring and damping settings on this kit are drawn directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme rather than adapted from a circuit base, so the compression and rebound characteristics are already biased towards real stage-road inputs rather than smooth-track loads.

Fitment for the Porsche Panamera (970) RWD (2009-2016)

This kit is specified for the 970-chassis Panamera built between 2009 and 2016, RWD models only – not the 4 or 4S all-wheel-drive variants. It’s built for the standard steel-spring set-up rather than the factory air suspension, and includes the cancellation kit needed to stop the PASM electronic damping system throwing faults once the factory dampers are removed. Confirm your car’s suspension type before ordering, since air-strut 970s need a different kit entirely.

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Pick your ride height and damping range for the RWD Panamera 970 below, and build your Tarmac Rally spec to match the stage you’re running.