XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Toyota AVALON XLS (TYPE 2) 1994-1999

The first-generation Avalon was built for hushed motorway miles, not loose-surface stages – a long, nose-heavy front-wheel-drive saloon with soft factory damping that runs out of travel the moment the road turns hostile. The XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover for the Toyota Avalon XLS (type 2) is the part that rewrites that brief.

Developed specifically for gravel-stage rally and rallycross use, this is a long-stroke, long-spring kit built to keep a heavy saloon composed over broken sandstone, silt and snow. It is the spec you fit when the Avalon is heading off the tarmac and the suspension has to survive everything the stage throws at it.

What this coilover does for your 1994-1999 Toyota Avalon XLS (type 2)

On a car this size, the gains are immediate. The long-travel damping absorbs the high-speed compressions that would bottom the standard struts, so the front axle keeps biting instead of skating wide. Extended stroke lets the Avalon ride the ruts and crests of a gravel stage without unloading a wheel, which matters on a nose-heavy platform that is quick to push wide when the front tyres go light. Spring rates set for loose surfaces hold the body flat enough to carry speed through fast, bumpy corners, while still soaking up the repeated impacts that wreck comfort-tuned dampers. The result is a 1990s saloon you can actually commit to over a rough surface.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

The Gravel Rally coilover is the most specialised damper in the XYZ Racing range, built for arguably the most punishing discipline in motorsport – the rallycross and gravel stage, where the surface shifts between sandstone, snow and silt within a single run. Its inverted-tube construction puts the larger, stronger tube outboard to resist the side loads a strut sees when a heavy car is loaded mid-corner. Long stroke and a long spring work together to absorb chassis vibration and the constant hammering of a bouncy, high-speed surface, while still managing the extreme cornering G-forces a rally car generates. Every spring rate in the kit has been tuned with the XYZ rally racing team rather than on a smooth circuit, so the settings reflect what actually works when the road disappears. The whole design is built around a single idea: on gravel, the damper is the most important component on the car.

Fitment for the Toyota Avalon XLS (type 2) (1994-1999)

This kit is built specifically for the Toyota Avalon XLS (type 2), chassis code TO06, covering the 1994 to 1999 model years. It is a direct-fit application for the first-generation XLS, with spring rates and stroke matched to the weight and geometry of this specific saloon rather than adapted from another platform.

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If your Avalon is bound for the gravel, this is the damper to start with. Configure your spec below and build the kit to suit your stage.