European Automotive Car Pack

European Automotive Car Pack is available from February 27 and features 4 incredible cars:
2021 Bentley Continental GT Convertible
1987 Mercedes-Benz AMG Hammer Wagon
2019 Jaguar XE SV Project 8
2020 Automobili Pininfarina Battista

These cars for 4 GBP? Really?

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Ew. It’s the convertible? Why?

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Five quid for cars that should’ve been simply put into the Playlist instead of these 40 Point rewards, as if we didn’t have enough paid Car Packs already…

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& a Pininfarina Rimac….

At least, the Jaguar Project 8 is finally coming. The Hammer Wagon should be nice too. It’s not a complete loss, but still, very odds decisions.

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Developers really just added a paid DLC version of the Rimac.

What’s wrong with that specific aspect? Personally I think the game needs more open top cars, both classic as well as modern, so this at least partially helps with that.

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What’s wrong with it? It’s a bit of an odd choice but it doesn’t look much worse than the Coupe, and a lot of people have been asking for more convertibles so it seems like a sensible addition.

My “ew” from this pack is the fact that there is an EV. :face_vomiting: :face_vomiting: :face_vomiting:

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I wanted the hardtop. Better looking, no drag, less weight.

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I’m fine with open-topped cars being included in the game, but not when it isn’t the default option. For a racing game, hardtop should always be the go-to, unless it’s a special edition of a convertible that was never made as a hardtop. A good Bentley example is the Bentley Continental Supersports ISR, a special edition that was only made as a convertible.

The Pininfarina Battista is in FM at launch and it is served as base content in there. Why would PGG make it paid in FH5?

I doubt that this is a huge mistake. It was just New to Horizon at this point.

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Because the game takes place in Mexico, and it’s hot out, and u gonna need to drive it with the top down.

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I think I’ll pass again. The only car that’s midly interesting for me is the Hammer Wagon.

Q: Does it come with a widebody option like the Coupe or not?

Over the Bentley Continental GT Speed Coupe?

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So what happens in the next game if it’s colder climate? XD.

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Exactly. It’s a very strange choice.

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The Pininfarina is a dog in FM23/8 don’t waste your time or money on it. Just stick with the original Rimac. They need to bring back the VW ID in both games.

The amount of car packs charged outside of Horizon Premium Edition is insane. Also, Forza’s nickel and diming is getting seriously worse. Why should we pay for a car model that is available for free in another title! Does anybody know how many car packs have been released after Premium-inclusive pack(s). How many times did we pay for the 911 Sport Classic over the years.

How is that the Valkyrie AMR PRO is free in FH5 but a Car Pass car in FM?
Why is the Pininfarina Battista paid for when it is free in the base game of FM? You see what happening?

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No, but it does have some interesting engine swaps.

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Finally got my hands on the pack.

The Project 8 was the standout for me. Handles and brakes like a champ despite it’s surprisingly heavy weight for a stripped down car. Will probably drive this the most out of the bunch.

The Hammer Wagon looks great and drives well too. However, @geistwriter definitely said it the best. This is a Syclone versus Typhoon situation. Only difference between the two is weight and appearance. Just a classic case of picking your poison.

I didn’t hate the Battista actually. One of the better EVs in the game in my opinion. But I still didn’t like it. It still weights too, has too much horsepower for its own good, and for a Pininfarina design, it just looks like the front end of a 458 was poorly grafted onto the body of a Nevera. Back end is ugly too, and it sounds awful.

As for the Bentley, I’m sure many have already seen my complaints about it in several threads. And yeah, my points still stand after driving it. Adding the convertible over the coupe is just puzzling to me. It makes an already heavy car even more heavy than it needs to be, takes away rigidity from the chassis, and results in a poorer drag coefficient. I think what makes this car’s inclusion even more baffling is the fact that this is a standard GTC, not a GTC Speed, especially since the Speed launched in 2022, the same year as the Continental we just got. I don’t know if this was a developer choice, an outsourced partner choice, or a choice made by Bentley themselves, but regardless, whoever made the decision made an extremely poor one.

Stuff like this is why a good chunk of my 750+ car wish list is composed of models we technically already have or have had in prior games, but have improved performance because somebody in licensing or modeling never stopped to realize that they were not adding the definitive version of a particular car. This can forgiven in hindsight if the definitive version has not come out yet, but with older cars, or even more egregious scenarios like this with the Continental, it’s just… odd and sometimes even lazy, to put it politely as I can.

Overall, not bad. A gigantic step above the last pack, but again, some weird choices being made here. Also, I didn’t mention it earlier, but having to pay for the Battista when Motorsport 8 players got it with said game at launch is classic Forza DLC tomfoolery I don’t want to see revived.

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