XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Smart FORTWO (W453) 2014-2026

The W453 Fortwo is the rare modern city car with its engine slung behind the rear axle and drive going to the back wheels – a layout it inherited from the Renault Twingo III it shares a platform with. That rearward weight bias, combined with a wheelbase barely over 1.8 metres, gives the car a darty, slightly nervous gait on its soft factory springs. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover exists to settle exactly that.

Street Advanced sits at the road-biased end of the XYZ range – a coilover for the owner who threads a Smart Fortwo through town every day but wants genuine body control and the option of an occasional track session. Ride height and damping both come to hand, so you can drop the stance and firm up the chassis without turning a short-wheelbase city car into something you dread on a pockmarked high street.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2026 Smart Fortwo

On a car this short and this rear-heavy, the biggest gain is composure. Lowering the centre of gravity reins in the W453’s tendency to bob and pitch over expansion joints and speed humps, while the firmer rates keep the rear axle planted when you lift off mid-corner – the moment a rear-engined car is most likely to rotate on you. The 720-way damping adjustment lets you run a softer setting for broken urban tarmac and wind in more control for a smooth B-road or a track day. Drop the ride height and the Fortwo finally loses its tall, narrow-track look and sits planted, while turn-in sharpens and the car stops leaning so hard on its outside front tyre.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is the most popular kit in the XYZ Racing range, and the one the company’s engineers have spent the longest refining. It has been developed over years and proven through international race testing before reaching road cars. The headline figure is 720-way damping adjustment – a wide tuning window for bump and rebound rather than a handful of fixed clicks. XYZ build it specifically for normal road use with the capability to absorb the occasional track day, which is precisely the brief most W453 owners have. It is aimed at drivers chasing more speed and tighter control than the standard suspension allows, without surrendering the everyday usability that makes a Fortwo worth owning in the first place.

Fitment for the Smart Fortwo (2014-2026)

This kit is cut for the W453 Smart Fortwo, the third-generation car built across the 2014 to 2026 run. It suits the standard rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive Fortwo over that period. Confirm your exact build year in the configurator before ordering.

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