Cars shown during the January Developer_Direct video

From our blog and video today:

We know the question on everyone’s mind is “what cars will I get to drive in Forza Motorsport?” While we plan to reveal our launch day car list closer to release, we teased a bunch of the vehicles you’ll be driving in our segment during the Xbox & Bethesda Developer_Direct – and for your convenience, we’ve included this snapshot of cars below:

  • 1971 AMC Javelin AMX
  • 1989 Aston Martin #18 Aston Martin AMR1
  • 2016 Aston Martin Vulcan
  • 2014 Audi #2 Audi Team Joest R18 e-tron quattro
  • 2016 Audi #17 Rotek Racing TT RS
  • 2016 Audi R8 V10 plus
  • 2018 Audi TT RS
  • 1991 BMW M3
  • 2017 BMW #24 BMW Team RLL M6 GTLM
  • 2018 BMW #1 BMW M Motorsport M8 GTE
  • 2019 Brabham BT62
  • 2018 Bugatti Chiron
  • 1970 Buick GSX
  • 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Super Sport Coupe
  • 1969 Chevrolet Nova Super Sport 396
  • 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
  • 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sport 454
  • 2015 Chevrolet #10 Konica Minolta Corvette Daytona Prototype
  • 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE
  • 2020 Chevrolet #3 Corvette Racing C8.R
  • 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe
  • 1972 Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T E49
  • 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
  • 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T
  • 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon
  • 1965 Ford Mustang GT Coupe
  • 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302
  • 1987 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500
  • 2005 Ford GT
  • 2015 Ford #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Riley Mk XXVI Daytona Prototype
  • 2016 Ford #66 Ford Racing GT Le Mans
  • 2017 Ford GT
  • 2020 Hyundai #98 Bryan Herta Autosport Veloster N
  • 1983 Jaguar #44 Group 44 XJR-5
  • 1988 Jaguar #1 Jaguar Racing XJR-9
  • 1993 Jaguar XJ220
  • 2015 Jaguar XKR-S GT
  • 1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV
  • 1997 Lamborghini Diablo SV
  • 2016 Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4
  • 2020 Lamborghini Huracán EVO
  • 1969 Lola #10 Simoniz Special T163
  • 1990 Mazda MX-5 Miata
  • 1991 Mazda #55 Mazda 787B
  • 2010 Mazda #16 Mazda Racing B09/86
  • 2014 Mazda #70 SpeedSource Lola B12/80
  • 1969 McLaren #4 McLaren Cars M8B
  • 2013 McLaren P1
  • 2018 McLaren Senna
  • 1989 Mercedes-Benz #63 Sauber-Mercedes C 9
  • 1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II
  • 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
  • 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator
  • 1985 Nissan #83 GTP ZX-Turbo
  • 1991 Nissan #23 Nissan R91CP
  • 2015 Nissan #23 GT-R LM NISMO
  • 2019 Nissan 370Z Nismo
  • 2020 Nissan GT-R NISMO (R35)
  • 1969 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds 442
  • 1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16
  • 1993 Peugeot #3 Peugeot Talbot Sport 905 EVO 1C
  • 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge
  • 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455
  • 1970 Porsche #3 917 LH
  • 1987 Porsche #17 Porsche AG 962C
  • 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder
  • 2017 Porsche #2 Porsche Team 919 Hybrid
  • 2017 Porsche #92 Porsche GT Team 911 RSR
  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
  • 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
  • 2021 Porsche 911 GT3
  • 2021 Porsche Mission R
  • 2015 Radical RXC Turbo
  • 2004 Saleen S7
  • 2014 Toyota #8 Toyota Racing TS040 HYBRID

Editor’s Note (March 2, 2023): We’ve updated this blog to remove mentions of some cars that will not be available in the base Forza Motorsport game. We’ll share more in the future when those vehicles will be coming to Forza Motorsport and how they can be obtained. We apologize for any confusion.

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If anyone is wondering what changed on the list above - six #NewToForza cars went missing:

  • 2018 Audi #44 R8 LMS GT3
  • 2021 Cadillac #31 Whelen Racing DPi-V.R
  • 2019 Ginetta #6 Team LNT Ginetta G60-LT-P1
  • 2017 Oreca #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07
  • 1983 Porsche #11 John Fitzpatrick Racing 956
  • 2019 Porsche #70 Porsche Motorsport 935

Very disappointing :frowning:

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:cry: They advertised four of these vehicles and two in depth during Forza Monthly. Hopefully they’re free when they do come to the game.

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Yes, I hope it’s only a matter of delaying this content for two to three updates after launch and not locking it in DLC…

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Looks like Licensing strikes again

Bizarre (imo) to announce the cars only to pull them before the release with a note that they may be available later.

It happens though, some agreements can break at the last second (See: FIAT Group)

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Well this is awkward :thinking:

Could be licensing, could be a competitor snapping up an exclusive deal, could be a strategic business decision, who knows.

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That list is far too random to be exclusivity deals with competing games. I doubt it’s licensing, either, because there’d be a lot more missing.

I really hoped they wouldn’t, but that reads to me like they’re setting up a Festival Playlist for Motorsport, and those are going to be the first offerings.

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It is likely licensing:

  1. They’re all Racecars

  2. Racecars usually have something roadcars don’t… Sponsors

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No one but Porsche sponsors the 2019 935. It was a one-off concept homage that was built on a GT2RS chassis and never saw competition. Also, sponsorship decals have never stopped a car from being included before. But, hey, let’s keep right on believing that it’s anything but Horizon’s garbage bleeding into Motorsport, just as feared.

Wrong, if you’d actually bothered to Google the car, you’d see that quite a few brands sponsored that 935 (including Martini, who wouldn’t be on the car for obvious reasons), also, there are 77 935’s

And you know that because?

NASCAR and Formula 1 games have all included cars that don’t have sponsors for a variety of reasons, most related to tobacco and alcohol advertising laws; in those cases, they simply alter the livery on the car to remain as close to the original as possible while removing the offending sponsors. No one is going to cut a car just because one of the sponsors doesn’t agree, particularly in a game where those liveries can be altered. They’ll send the car out in bare carbon-fiber, or in show car/test car liveries first.

Keep trying.

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Hot take: The “removed” cars are pre-order/deluxe/VIP pack items but said SKUs haven’t been announced yet.

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I’ve thought that, and that’s not much better of a scenario, particularly for a game that desperately needs to show that it’s grown beyond the nonsense.

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Not the DPI and the Audi :sob:
They better remplace these cars by cool ones

Pretty sure they’re all going to be paid DLC. Licensing isn’t always the answer, contray to what people usually think. I mean, more often than not, it is, but I doubt its the case here.

Lancia appearing in the one of the Horizon streams prior to launch was a bit different as probably only one percent of the people who watched the initial Horizon 5 reveal ever saw the stream Lancia appeared in. While for these seemingly removed cars from Motorsport 8, well, they were shown to at least a million people. Probably more. Can’t backtrack as easily with viewership numbers that high, though they are trying.

Those cars probally will be put in a update or will be that usual day 1 DLC Pack

here is the queote from the website with BOLD in the most important parts

We’ve updated this blog to remove mentions of some cars that will not be available in the base Forza Motorsport game. We’ll share more in the future when those vehicles will be coming to Forza Motorsport and how they can be obtained. We apologize for any confusion.

They will be coming in the game but probally as day 1 DLC or as a free update car (GOD, I HOPE ISNT LIKE FH5 PLAYLIST I HATE THE PLAYLIST PLEASE DONT DO IT)

It wouldn’t be so awful if they were more transparent, but of course we get that classic turn 10 radio silence that they’ve become infamous for.

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