XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Chrysler NEON 1994-2000

The first-generation Chrysler NEON arrived as a budget compact, but the CR02 chassis has spent the last two decades being rediscovered by stage-rally privateers who value its short wheelbase, light kerb weight and willingness to rotate on a loose surface. What it was never given from the factory is a damper capable of surviving a Welsh forest stage. That is the gap this XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover fills.

This is a dedicated gravel-stage damper built for a NEON running as a rally car, not a road car with longer travel bolted in. Inverted-tube construction, extended stroke and long-rate rally springs let the chassis breathe over deep ruts, compressions and yumps without bottoming the shock or unloading the inside rear mid-corner.

What this coilover does for your 1994-2000 Chrysler NEON

On a loose surface the suspension does the steering as much as the driver does, and a NEON on the wrong damper will skip across ruts and run wide on every camber change. The long-stroke inverted-tube layout keeps the contact patch loaded through deep compressions, so the front axle keeps biting when you trail-brake into a hairpin and the rear stays planted when the car lands cross-slope after a crest. Spring rates are set long and progressive rather than short and stiff, which is what allows the car to soak up high-speed bouncy sections without pitching the driver around the cabin. The result is a NEON that will commit to a line over broken ground instead of flinching off it, and a chassis that will still be straight at the end of a stage rather than punched through at the top mounts.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

The Gravel Rally is XYZ Racing’s dedicated rally-cross and stage-rally damper, and the design priorities are different from anything in the tarmac range. It uses an inverted-tube layout – the larger-diameter body sits at the top and the thinner shaft at the bottom – which puts the strongest section of the damper where the suspension takes the biggest hits from stones, sandstone, snow and silt. Stroke length is extended well beyond a road coilover so the wheel can travel through deep compressions without the damper running out of room, and the springs are deliberately long and softer-rated to absorb chassis vibration and soak up the G-loads the car takes when it lands cross-slope or attacks a high-speed bouncy section. Spring rates across the range have been set and validated by working rally teams, not chosen from a catalogue, so the baseline tune is the one a competitive crew would actually run.

Fitment for the Chrysler NEON (1994-2000)

Built for the first-generation Chrysler NEON, chassis code CR02, covering the 1994 to 2000 model years. Confirm your trim and sub-variant in the configurator before ordering – first-gen NEON went through several front-strut and rear-suspension revisions across its production run, and the correct part numbers depend on which one is under your car.

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Pick your spring rate and length options in the configurator below and build the spec for your NEON rally programme.