XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CITY GM2/GM3 2007-2013

The GM2/GM3 CITY is a featherweight saloon riding on a torsion-beam rear and MacPherson struts up front – geometry that rewards a damper which can soak a mid-corner ridge without unloading the inside-rear and skating the car wide. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically for sealed-stage work on a chassis like this: stages where the surface looks like a B-road but punishes suspension like a rally special.

On a sub-tonne L13/L15-engined CITY, the front axle does most of the talking. This kit is set up to keep that front contact patch loaded through compressions and over patchy tarmac repairs – the exact failure mode that pitches a light front-driver into understeer mid-stage.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2013 Honda CITY GM2/GM3

After fitting, the most obvious change is what happens when the road surface stops being flat. Sharp ridges, patched repairs and crested apexes stop deflecting the car off line – the damper absorbs the hit and the tyre stays planted rather than skipping. On a light chassis like the GM2/GM3, that translates directly into corner-entry confidence the standard struts can’t offer.

You also get the ride-height and corner-weight adjustment a stage-driven CITY needs – useful for setting rake to manage the front-driver’s natural push, and for getting the car level on a road camber that would otherwise eat your line. Body control through quick left-right transitions sharpens noticeably, and the kit holds composure on repeat heat cycles rather than going off after a handful of hard stages.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered specifically to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the brief is to suppress body shock when the car crosses a big bump and keep the tyre loaded through the rebound. Every setting in this damper comes from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, which is where the valving philosophy was developed and tested.

Construction is built around sustained punishment rather than a single hot lap. The compression and rebound behaviour is tuned to keep the contact patch settled across surface changes that would unsettle a circuit-focused damper, while still giving the car a defined platform to turn against. Spring and damper rates are matched to the use case – light enough chassis like the CITY benefit from the same approach used on heavier rally machinery, with the rates scaled to suit. The result is a coilover that treats a broken stage surface as the working environment rather than a worst-case exception.

Fitment for the Honda CITY GM2/GM3 (2007-2013)

This kit fits the GM2 and GM3 generations of the Honda CITY, covering model years 2007 through 2013 inclusive. Chassis reference HN26. Confirm your build year and trim against the configurator before ordering to ensure the correct strut top and lower-mount specification.

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Pick your spring rates, ride height and damper preferences in the configurator below to build your CITY’s Tarmac Rally kit.