XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 2 SERIES F87 M2 (excl. M2C) 2016-2021

The F87 M2 was the last analogue M-car BMW built before the G87 brought hybrid bracing and a kerb weight rethink – which is exactly why owners keep them, and exactly why the factory adaptive damping starts to feel underdamped the moment you fit stickier rubber or add a roll cage. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover replaces the standard M2 setup with a 36-way adjustable monotube that lets you settle the nose, calm the secondary ride, and stop the rear axle skipping mid-corner on broken B-road tarmac.

This is the Super Sport spec, which means it is built for fast-road use that occasionally sees a track day – not a stripped-out time-attack build. If you drive your M2 to Cadwell, do twenty hot laps, then drive home, this is the right damper in the XYZ range for that brief.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2021 Bmw 2 SERIES F87 M2 (excl. M2C)

Drop the M2 onto a properly damped coilover and the chassis finally does what the geometry promised. The N55-powered F87 carries its weight high over the front axle for an M-car, and the standard dampers run out of low-speed compression control once you load it up on turn-in; the Super Sport’s 36-way adjustment lets you firm up bump response without making the secondary ride brittle. Spring-rate matched to the M2’s kerb weight, the car sits flatter through fast direction changes at places like Druids or the Mountain straight at Cadwell, and trail-braking into the apex stops feeling like a guess. Ride height is adjustable across the body, so you can set a sensible road stance for the daily commute or drop it for trackdays without re-shimming. The result is an F87 that turns in cleanly, holds its line under throttle out of slow corners, and doesn’t punish you over expansion joints on the way home.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-plus-trackday damper, engineered specifically to take the harshness out of bumps and rough surfaces without giving up control. The headline figure is 36-way damping adjustment, which combines compression and rebound on a single click setting – enough granularity to find a road tune and a track tune without swapping springs. Ride height is independently adjustable on the body, so corner-weighting an M2 for the British Touring Car-style stance most owners want is straightforward. Construction is a high-performance monotube damper designed to cope with both repeated lap work at weekend trackdays and daily driving the rest of the week. The brief XYZ set themselves with this series was a single suspension that meets all different road conditions, and that flexibility is the reason it suits owners who use their M2 as a fast road car first and a track tool second.

Fitment for the Bmw 2 SERIES F87 M2 (excl. M2C) (2016-2021)

This kit is built for the F87 chassis, model years 2016 through 2021, in standard M2 specification only. It does NOT fit the M2 Competition (M2C) – that car uses the S55 engine, different front subframe mounting points and revised damper specifications, and needs its own part number. Confirm your VIN build date falls inside the 2016-2021 window before ordering.

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Pick your ride height and damping spec below, then add to basket to configure the rest of the build.