XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Toyota AVALON XLS (TYPE 2) 1994-1999

The first-generation Avalon was built to glide, not to grip. Toyota tuned the type 2 chassis for hushed motorway miles and a soft, long-travel ride, which is exactly why a big nose-heavy front-drive saloon like this rolls onto its outside front tyre and washes wide the moment you ask it to change direction with intent. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover is the kit that rewrites that brief without turning your daily into a punishment.

This is the occasional-track-day-plus-street specification in the XYZ range, and on a TO06-chassis Avalon that balance matters. You keep a car you can live with on a broken British B-road, but you gain the body control to lean on the front axle and actually hold a line.

What this coilover does for your 1994-1999 Toyota Avalon

The factory dampers were never designed to control the mass sitting over the front axle, so the first thing you feel is the body settling. Roll, dive and squat all shrink, which steadies the nose under braking and gives the front tyres a flatter contact patch when you turn in. Ride height is adjustable, so you can drop the Avalon’s tall stance and lower the centre of gravity that makes a saloon this size feel top-heavy. With damping firmed and spring rates raised over the soft OEM setting, mid-corner composure improves and the car stops floating over crests at speed. Most owners notice the steering responds quicker and the rear stays settled rather than shuffling on the way out of a bend.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport sits a clear step above a street setup: XYZ run roughly 30 to 50 percent more damping force and around 2kg/mm more spring rate than their comfort tune. That extra rate is what suppresses body movement and keeps the tyre planted, yet the valving is still calibrated to absorb the jolt from a big bump or a poor surface rather than crash through it – it soaks the impact and converts it into traction instead of skipping the wheel off the road. The settings come straight from XYZ’s own Top Sport racing programme, which is why the kit is aimed squarely at track days and harder road driving rather than show stance. Height-adjustable bodies let you set corner balance and ride height to suit how you actually use the car.

Fitment for the Toyota Avalon (1994-1999)

This kit is built for the type 2 Avalon XLS, chassis code TO06, covering the 1994 to 1999 model years. It is a direct-fit coilover application for that platform – confirm your chassis code and year against the listing before you order.

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Set your ride height and damping to match your roads and your track days – configure your Avalon spec below.