2025 Forza Year in Review blog

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Today we’re publishing our annual Year in Review blog, which highlights community created content in Motorsport and Horizon, plus highlights for Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon 5, and Forza Horizon 6.

In the Motorsport section:

Forza Motorsport

In 2025, Forza Motorsport celebrated its 20th Anniversary with our incredible community, introduced new cars and features that have been requested by players, and saw the return of a truly legendary and beloved track: Fujimi Kaido.

Let’s start with those serpentine mountain roads. Fujimi Kaido was last featured in 2011’s Forza Motorsport 4, and the mark it has left in our community cannot be understated. As the home for both drifters and touge racers, the 20th Anniversary of Forza Motorsport was the perfect time for us to bring back this monstrous 16.5-kilometer track. It also proved to be our largest track project ever – check out this blog on the making of Fujimi Kaido to learn more about its development and the considerations we had to take when bringing it back.

The return of Fujimi Kaido also coincided with the addition of Meetups: a space for the community to come together and show off their favorite cars. With Open Track Day and Drift Meetups, as well as 24/7 Fujimi Kaido and Nürburgring Meetups, there’s plenty of choices! Join these lobbies at any time from the Meetups menu in-game.

2025 also introduced new-to-Motorsport cars from BMW and Porsche, new Daily Racers and Velocity-themed events, and a host of features: from open-wheel IndyCar racing and Manual Grid Ordering in Private Multiplayer, to an upgraded multi-line Drivatar AI system and a new racecar-focused single-player campaign: the Champions Cup.

This year we also started bringing back previously released Featured Tours and reward cars to Forza Motorsport, ensuring they remain permanently available for players to enjoy at any time. The Road to Race Tour, Track Toys Tour, Ringer Tour, Endurance Tour, BMW Tour, and Contemporary Tour have all returned to Forza Motorsport.

Ring in the New Year on January 1 with the return of the Nemesis Tour and experience some of the most infamous automotive rivalries on the racetrack.

While you’re busy celebrating, don’t forget to take the 2015 McLaren P1 GTR out to Maple Valley to qualify for a chance to win $100,000 in cash and prizes, including a VIP trip to a race weekend with McLaren! We’re delighted to have hosted the Logitech McLaren G Challenge on a variety of Forza Motorsport tracks over the past two years. Check out the schedule below so you don’t miss your chance to qualify:

Rivals Event Car Track Starts Ends
Logitech McLaren G Challenge Qualifier #3 2015 McLaren P1 GTR Maple Valley - Full Circuit Dec. 3 4pm PT / Dec. 4 12am UTC Jan. 7 4pm PT / Jan. 8 12am UTC
Logitech McLaren G Challenge Bonus Stage 1976 McLaren #11 Team McLaren M23 Fujimi Kaido – Full Circuit Jan. 8 4pm PT / Jan. 9 12am UTC Feb. 4 4pm PT / Feb. 5 12am UTC

Thank you for all your support throughout 2025! It’s incredible to see the community’s passion for Forza Motorsport, and we love racing with you in Featured Multiplayer and seeing your cars and drifting skills in Meetups.

As our team shifts its focus toward delivering the best possible experience with Forza Horizon 6 in 2026, we do not plan to introduce new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes for Forza Motorsport. However, we will continue supporting the game by keeping online servers active, hosting special events and competitions, and reintroducing previously released Featured Tours and reward cars on a monthly basis, until all content is available for you to enjoy anytime.

We hope you continue racing with us on Forza Motorsport in 2026 – see you at the track!

Ferrari 499P (Hypercar racing) 2023-current
FM Calendar - events and announcements
Feature request A track day lobby with limited PI
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It has been a wonderful journey. From 5th October 2023 to now, I played this game when it was at its lowest point, till now. I have made some good friends over discord, played some leagues, won multiple races. I have spent 2387 hours on this game and it has been a rollercoaster of an experience.

I personally feel this game should receive proper goodbye but this was not what we expected from a long term running studio.

Thank You Forza, Grazzie ra Grazzi Forza Motorsport! Grazie a tutti T10.

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Thank you ANM Sprinter, it’s always great to hear about community meeting up and playing together. We’ll continue to highlight community-run events for FM in the Community Hub section of the forums here:

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I really don’t know what to say. It was broken from the beginning, and many of the updates added features we already had in previous FM titles. It felt rushed out to the public, and Turn 10/Microsoft also seemed to have some very strange employment contracts.

There are still a lot of things that don’t work, and I guess they will never be resolved. I hope all DLC and other add-ons will be made free now that the game has reached EOL.

FM is fun to play by my self, but online is still really broken :frowning:

I’ll keep playing it anyway, since PMR was another disaster — but I’m really looking forward to FH6.

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Well, at least now its official that this game is dead and we can give up on whatever little hope there was left that there might be more content to come. I would say it was nice while it lasted, but was it tho? Im just glad i didnt pay full price for this game, and i surely will never buy any MS game again. MS and T10 dont deserve my money.

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How long do you think people are gna keep playing this game? Now that you have confirmed you intend to add nothing new or fix bugs, yet you say you will keep supporting it and the community but your spectate mode that the community needs to run leagues is buggy… Love the game but its dead now.

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Thank you T10 for making racing game that I could truly enjoy on controller, thank you for the hype and joy I felt waiting for updates, especially with Fujimi Kaido and lastly thank you for letting people contribute with BoP and many other things through Insiders Program!

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So much for a versatile, adaptive platform that was going to last years. An absolute betrayal.

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Real shame that it’s over. Thanks T10 for all the great times over the years.

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Definitely made some great memories in this one, just really sad how it ends now. I really thought with the last AI and MP update the game is finally at a good point, where you just have to add dlc content to keep the players interested, most of the issues were fixed at this point anyways.

Well thanks nonetheless.:sad_but_relieved_face:

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It’s a real shame the game has been put on hold. But perhaps for the short term it’s for the better as this can only benefit Forza Horizon 6. Hopefully Forza Motorsport will get the attention it deserves later. But sadly I fear this may take years. FH6 is not out yet and is planned for a 2026 release. I don’t think they will pull the FM team off FH6 right after launch.

I hope FM will get a relaunch or major update in the future to turn it into the game it was meant to be. Fujimi Kaido seemed to be taking it in the right direction!

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I don’t think I’ve ever quite seen the gulf between pre-launch marketing & a post-launch shambles in my life. That was staggering. It just put the whole project on quick sand.

And it is a shame, the game that’s there now is a sturdy one in my view albeit requiring alot of tweaking. If the game had just one more update/fixes package and was left like that, you might have had some completion there. But anyway, no more tweaks/fixes. FH6 next I guess.

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Even if Forza Motorsport makes a return one way or another, the name and Turn 10 are now on equal footing with Ian Bell and anything he does. Playground Games had better knock Horizon 6 out of the park, or the entire franchise might as well fold and cede everything to Playstation because the damage will be immense and irreperable.

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Urgh preferred Motorsport series to Horizon. Suppose the demise of my favourite series in favour of slightly more zoomer dopamine slop comparatively was inevitable. Hoped for more and was willing to pay.

Goodbye y’all.

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Hello @T10ManteoMax . Will all the suggestions about FM (cars, tracks, features, etc) are going to be deleted from this forum in the future?

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At least they’re no longer pretending it’s not dead…

It’s heartbreaking.

There is no company that I like less than Microsoft at this moment.

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We all assumed it anyways BUT what a pathetic end to this once renowned series.
This ““racing platform for the future” (DG) finished with less tracks, less events and significantly less modes than FM7.
I’m not sad for this management & design fiasco but this series that accompanied me for 20 years deserved so much better.

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“As our team shifts its focus toward delivering the best possible experience with Forza Horizon 6 in 2026, we do not plan to introduce new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes for Forza Motorsport.”

They should’ve just said this immediately after the last content update instead of waiting until today. We knew it was coming after the layoffs, why prolong the inevitable end up until now (besides to save face or hope people forget about it)?

If Motorsport ever gets a new installment after Horizon 6, I will be much more weary and cautious approaching it than I naively did with 2023. Last time I do that ever again.

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See y’all in FH6!

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