Please no more expansions with another toy brand. Hope they bring more car culture in the game instead of all useless casual stuff.
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I donât believe the leaks.
I seriously would rather see another Lego expansion than any of the suggestions so far.
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Iâd love a fictional city, a homage to NFS Underground 2 or Midnight Club, two games that heavily inspired the Horizon series.
I doubt theyâd move far from Mexico for a bunch of reasons. Locations need to be licenced too, plus you have to do new texture and skybox captures. A Mexican city or a fictional one seem more likely. Iâd guess fictional because they wouldnât need on-site data acquisition. That team probably has been scouting the FH6 location, or at the very least is well into the the planning stages in preparation for a location to be picked. They kind of are at the very beginning of the production pipeline.
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I would still bet money that Horizon Japan was at one point in development but was scrapped for whatever reason. Weâve been wanting it as a location for nearly a decade and even concept art was made dating as far back as the Horizon 2 days
Playground couldnât pull off Japan if they tried. They kept American, French, Italian, and (to an extent) Australia culture at arms length in the first three games, embraced British culture because, well, theyâre British, and they tried going all-in on Mexico culture and failed quite spectacularly. If they did Japan, I guarantee you that Japanese characters would be slightly offensive caricatures, Touge and highway racing would be referenced but not replicated, customization would not improve, and there would still be little to no campaign. Only thing we could hope for is decent looking map and that maybe holes in the JDM part of the car roster may finally be filled.
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In a video not so long ago, Ericship111 said of Japan (to paraphrase) national security. In other words, the Japanese government wouldnât let a foreign company go round taking highly detailed piccies of the place. It sounds plausible.
Ditto China for the same reason.
I canât help but feel PGG painted themselves into a bit of a corner with mashups of individual countries instead of amalgamating bits of various countries in the fictional land of, say, Westeros, Narnia or Middle-Earth.
And yet Hong Kong (and itâs full network of roads) are to be used in TD Solar Crown. If ânational securityâ was an actual issue for China, this wouldnât be the case.
I donât expect much from YouTubers when it comes to information, unless they are doing an interview with the actual game developers. Ericship111 pulls as much info from reddit and twitter as anyone else.
Iâm actually surprised Kylotonn actually took the financial risk of having the game take place in Hong Kong, because that likely means TDUSC isnât likely to get a Chinese release.
I hadnât forgotten about TDU being set in Hong Kong, but itâs an SAR with its own rules and regs. I was only referring to the mainland. And if it wasnât national security, thereâd almost certainly be a plethora of other local impediments.
Ericship111âs info about Japan sounds plausible, but I canât confirm it.
I assume TDUâs development predates recent-ish events and new laws in Hong Kong that mightâve caused the devs to have second thoughts about it. I donât believe it would be barred from release in China, but itâs possible there may be some localisation for mainland Chinese players.
All idle speculation, I hasten to add.
I can only think of a mountain drift route, which come on⌠we get in every game, packed and I mean gridlocked cities and long highways which without police is going to get old fast when you realise thatâs only good for engine-swapped powerbuilds or hypercars.
They actually had an OP Meta car too - a Porsche no one could beat because Porsche themselves supplied racing parts. The racing was so fun he turned his speedo 90 degrees so the redline was at the top. 
Why? Because it was full throttle almost the whole way and heâd smoke everyone.
Fun.
I just donât think itâd be a great map. Their greatest era for building cars was considered a âlost decadeâ culturally, wasnât it?
That Wangan stuff was late 80âs early 90âs wasnât it? That era is a bit âlostâ for most cultures in reality (I try to forget as much as I can about that timeâŚlol). Japanâs modern culture has always included a large amount of U.S. influence, especially from decades prior. They still have âgreasersâ there, their motorcycle culture mimics that of 70âs and 80âs biker gangs of the U.S. And much to the chagrin of the JDM crowd, they love muscle cars and Euro performance as well.
There was a 70 or 71 455SD Trans Am that used to run Wangan with that âspecialâ Porsche back then. Blue with a White stripe.
There are some real gems when it comes to cars from Japan in the 70âs (cars we used to have) RX-3, mid 70âs Galant GTO and such. Itâs a shame we canât get back to that.
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spanish inquisition theme, then?
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Fair post and some good insight there. I really liked that RX3 in FM5, but didnât get round to using it much in FM4 as it arrived so late.
Cheers, though I misremembered on that Galant GTO MR, it was Gran Turismo that had that one. The other we have is the early Celica GT.
A bit off topic, but when we are already talking about cool Galants, the Galant AMG is quite far up on my car-wishlist^^
Since Donut media are coming and itâs kind of on topic, I found this video interesting.
Can we have the RAM van? 
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