XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Fiat 500 (Rear DRUM BRAKE) (EU) 2007-2026

The Fiat 500’s short wheelbase and tall, narrow body make it one of the more entertaining city cars to chuck around a B-road, but it also means the factory damping runs out of ideas the moment you start pushing. Body roll arrives early, the nose dives under braking, and on the drum-rear EU cars in particular the back axle feels overly compliant when you’re trying to rotate the car on the throttle.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the right fit for owners who want to tighten the 500 up for fast-road duty and the occasional Sunday track session without turning it into a rattling, unusable daily. It pulls the centre of gravity down, controls roll, and gives the chassis the discipline this little platform has always deserved.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2026 Fiat 500

Dropped ride height takes the visual weight out of the arches and shifts the roll centre to somewhere far more useful for a car this short. The 36-way damping range means you can run a softer setting for the commute and the school run, then wind in compression and rebound for a track day at Bedford or Llandow without changing parts. Turn-in sharpens noticeably – the 500 stops washing wide on lift-throttle and starts pivoting from the middle of the car. Bump absorption stays civilised because the damper is built to deal with British road surfaces, not just billiard-table circuits. On the drum-rear EU chassis specifically, the firmer rear control helps the back axle settle quicker between corners, which is exactly where the standard setup gives up.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-plus-occasional-track damper, engineered around the idea that bumps and rough surfaces should not punish the driver. Ride height is fully adjustable on the lower bracket, and the 36-way dampening adjustment covers everything from a road-biased setup to something genuinely firm enough for a circuit lap. The shock body and spring rates are chosen to deal with mixed-condition use – broken UK Tarmac one day, kerbing on a track session the next. It is a single platform spec’d to handle both weekend race work and daily driving, which is the brief most 500 owners actually have. Construction is built around durability for the road environment rather than a stripped, single-purpose race damper.

Fitment for the Fiat 500 (2007-2026)

This kit fits the EU-market Fiat 500 with the rear DRUM brake setup, covering the 2007 to 2026 model range. The drum-rear variant uses a different lower mount geometry than disc-rear EU cars, so the correct kit for your chassis matters – this is the one for the drum-rear EU 500 specifically.

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Pick your spring rate, ride height and damping setup in the configurator below.