XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Citroen XSARA 1997-2006

The Citroen Xsara is one of the last properly hydraulic-feeling French hatches before the marque went fully soft, and the standard damping reflects that brief: long travel, a forgiving primary ride, and a front end that washes wide the moment you ask anything serious of it. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is built to give the Xsara the body control its chassis has always deserved without surrendering the supple low-speed manners that made these cars likeable in the first place.

For owners running a VTS, an early Xsara hatch on weekend B-road duty, or a tidy car that sees the occasional track day at Cadwell or Castle Combe, this is the kit pitched squarely at fast-road work with the headroom to take a session of lapping in its stride.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2006 Citroen Xsara

The Super Sport’s 36-way damping range means you can run the Xsara soft enough for broken UK B-roads on a Sunday and firm enough to keep the front MacPherson struts honest when you start carrying real speed into a corner. Ride-height adjustment lets you pull the nose down to settle that slightly tip-toe factory stance, sharpen turn-in, and shift the visual centre of gravity without crashing the car into its bump-stops on a motorway expansion joint. On a front-driven hatch like the Xsara, this matters: tighter damping at the front kills the trailing-arm rear’s tendency to skate, and a measured drop quickens the steering response that the standard car’s tall sidewall always blunts. Brake confidence improves too – less dive on the way into a corner means the front tyres aren’t ambushed by sudden load transfer.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-with-track-headroom damper, engineered around a single principle: that ride comfort and useful body control are not mutually exclusive. The 36-way adjustable damping circuit covers the full range from supple road tune to firm circuit setting through one click-detent knob per damper, so changes between a weekend road blast and a track session take minutes rather than a workshop afternoon. Independent ride-height adjustment – separate from the spring preload – means corner weights and stance can be set without compromising suspension travel, which is the failing of every cheap "lowering" coilover sold on the Xsara forums. Build quality is monotube and rebuildable, the springs are matched to the Xsara’s kerb weight rather than pulled off a generic shelf, and the whole assembly is intended to be lived with daily.

Fitment for the Citroen Xsara (1997-2006)

This kit fits the CI05 chassis Citroen Xsara across the full 1997 to 2006 production run, covering the pre-facelift and post-facelift hatch and saloon variants including the VTS. Spring rates and damper specification are matched to the Xsara’s specific front strut geometry and rear semi-independent torsion-beam layout.

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Pick your spring rates and finalise your spec in the configurator below.