XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Subaru XV GT 4WD 2017-2026

The XV GT 4WD’s raised crossover stance is what makes it a practical daily, and it’s also what softens the payoff when Subaru’s factory dampers hand control back to you mid-corner. The extra ride height that clears speed bumps and gravel tracks also lets the body roll further than a standard Impreza hatch before the tyres properly load up. XYZ Racing’s Top Sport coilover kit is built for that exact gap – lowering the centre of gravity while adding the control the taller SU21 chassis is missing, without turning the car into something you dread parking outside the school gates.

This is a track day and aggressive-driving spec first, fast-road spec second: symmetrical AWD keeps the XV planted under power, and matched spring and damper rates stop that advantage going to waste through a soft, underdamped rear end. It’s aimed at owners who want to trailer to a Cadwell Park trackday on a Saturday and be back at the school run on Monday in the same car.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2026 Subaru XV GT 4WD

Winding the damping up by roughly 30-50% over a standard street setting, or adding as much as 2kg/mm to the spring rate, checks the pitch and dive the factory dampers were tuned to allow. On the road that shows up as a flatter, more controlled ride over broken B-road surfaces rather than the soft, floaty response the XV ships with from the factory. On track, controlling that impact keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded evenly, which matters more on a 4WD car than most, since all four corners are asked to put power down at once out of a corner. Stiffer, better-damped springs also cut the nose-dive under braking that the XV GT’s raised ride height otherwise exaggerates, giving you a clearer sense of where the front axle is when you’re trail-braking into an apex. The net effect is a car that settles rather than wallows, whether that’s over a kerb strike on track or a pothole on the way home.

About the Top Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Top Sport line sits above a standard street coilover by increasing damping force by around 30-50%, or adding roughly 2kg/mm to the spring rate, depending on axle and application. That extra resistance is there to absorb the hit from a heavily broken apex or a bad bit of tarmac without transmitting the shock straight through the body shell, suppressing the kind of body movement that unsettles a car mid-corner. The stated goal is a car that keeps its tyres loaded and its balance settled through a lap rather than skipping across bumps and losing traction. The settings come out of XYZ Racing’s own trackday and race programme, so they’re tuned around aggressive driving rather than a comfort-first ride. It’s built as a kit for owners who want one set of coilovers to cover both a circuit session and the commute in, not two separate setups for two separate cars.

Fitment for the Subaru XV GT 4WD (2017-2026)

This kit is built specifically for the Subaru XV GT 4WD, chassis code SU21, covering the 2017 to 2026 model years. Confirm your car is the GT 4WD variant before ordering, since coilover geometry and mounting points differ across Subaru’s wider XV and Crosstrek range.

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Configure your Subaru XV GT 4WD Top Sport spec below to match it to how you’ll actually use the car.