XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W213 8 CYL 2017-2023

The W213 E-Class in V8 guise carries a 4.0-litre twin-turbo engine over the front axle and drives all four corners through 4MATIC+, so there’s real mass to manage the instant you get on the throttle or trail-brake into a corner. Standard air suspension is tuned for comfort first, which means body movement under that kind of load rather than composure.

XYZ Racing’s Top Sport coilover is built for exactly that gap: a car that spends most of its life on the road but gets driven hard often enough that the stock set-up starts to feel loose. It swaps the factory air struts for a coilover kit that keeps the nose settled under braking and the rear planted when the V8’s torque hits the tarmac, without turning the E-Class into a stripped-out track special.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2023 Mercedes Benz E CLASS W213 8 CYL

Fit the Top Sport kit and the first thing you’ll notice is how much less the nose dives under braking – with roughly 30 to 50 percent more damping force than the standard road set-up, the front end stays level when you’re hauling this heavy V8 down from motorway speed. The stiffer damping curve, or the equivalent 2kg/mm increase in spring rate depending on spec, also keeps the car’s mass in check through direction changes, so it answers steering input sooner instead of loading up gradually onto the outside tyre. Big compressions, the sort you get from a badly patched B-road or a kerb strike at a track day, get absorbed rather than transmitted straight into the chassis, which cuts down on the shock body movement that can unsettle the rear axle mid-corner. That control puts more of the tyre’s contact patch to work when you’re feeding in throttle out of a bend, and leaves the car feeling planted rather than floaty the moment you switch from commuting to a spirited drive.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport range sits above XYZ Racing’s road-focused kits and below its full competition line, built around the damping and spring settings the brand runs in its own track day and racing programme. Depending on the specification chosen, damping is raised by roughly 30 to 50 percent over a comfort-biased street set-up, or the spring rate is increased by around 2kg/mm – both routes aimed at controlling body movement under load rather than simply stiffening the ride for its own sake. That extra control is what lets the suspension absorb a hard hit, a pothole, a kerb, a bumpy apex, without the shock body kicking back and breaking traction. It’s a set-up aimed at drivers who take their E-Class to track days and drive it hard on the road in between, not a kit built purely for competition use where everyday comfort doesn’t matter.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz E CLASS W213 8 CYL (2017-2023)

This kit is built specifically for the W213-generation E-Class in its 8-cylinder form, chassis code ME30-3, covering the 2017 to 2023 model years. Confirm your car is the V8 variant before ordering, since front and rear geometry on this platform differs from the 4- and 6-cylinder W213 cars this kit isn’t designed for.

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Configure the spec for your ME30-3 E-Class below and build the kit to match how you actually drive it.