I thought it was BRZ vs the 86. Since they’re essentially the same thing.
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The playlist this week wasn’t too overly annoying other than that one event lab figure 8 on ice that was just chaos, and the poor choice of the tight twisty cobblestone city route for the classic muscle championship. I didn’t touch the trial or any of the other online events given how annoying the trial has been the last few weeks.
Really annoying that the event reward cars are yet again all low value auto show cars that just clutter up my garage and have no value since everyone else is trying to get rid of them.
Also there’s a lot of cars that haven’t been offered as playlist rewards in over a year, but we’ve had other cars that have been offered multiple times, would like to see some of these cars show up again (probably too much to hope that the devs will do away with vehicle exclusivity and just add the cars to the auto show).
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yup, both models in theory
Only 4 cars to choose from for this Trial. I personally prefer the 2013 BRZ and GT86 over the newer models.
A pretty light season for tuning. Only 2 main map championships with one only having 2 cars, Divo vs Jesko, and the other one only having 5 or 6 with it being A800 Lotus.
Forza Horizon 5: Festival Playlist Events - WINTER - week 3 - SERIES 28
For players who need help: Cars and Tunes
GT: betinhogvz
Forzathon Weekly
Code Tune LOTUS 3-ELEVEN 2016 … 125 195 930
The Trial: Settling Scores
Code Tune BMW M3 GTS 2010 … 175 462 665
EventLab: PETROLHEAD55823
Code Tune VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 2003 … 177 688 899
EventLab: M1K3G3TZ
Code Tune LOCAL MOTORS RALLY FIGHTER 2014 … 170 470 361
Playground Games
Code Tune EXTREME E #99 CHIP GANASSI RACING GMC HUMMER EV 2022 … 517 098 617
Speed Trap: Avenida
Code Tune FIAT 124 SPORT SPIDER 1980 … 726 680 995
Speed Zone: Camino Del Cielo
Code Tune TOYOTA MR2 SC 1989 … 177 228 984
Trail Blazer: Quebrada
Code Tune VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 2014 … 103 531 395
Seasonal Championship: Ice Ice Fairlady
Code Tune NISSAN FAIRLADY Z 2003 … 965 985 698
Seasonal Championship: Merry NSXMas!
Code Tune HONDA NSX-R 1992 … 135 677 165
Seasonal Championship: Feeling Santamental
Code Tune FORD MUSTANG GT 2+2 FASTBACK 1968 … 273 359 880
*** RALLY ADVENTURE ***
RA Speed Trap: Orogrande Rush
Code Tune FORD ESCORT RS1600 1973 … 153 237 098
RA Championship: Get to Grits
Code Tune PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO 2018 … 352 076 483
*** HOT WHEELS MAP ***
HW Danger Sign: Canyon Jump
Code Tune TOYOTA GR SUPRA 2020 … 956 656 855
HW Seasonal Championship: Modern Solutions
Code Tune FORD MUSTANG SHELBY GT500 2020 … 218 859 155
Super 7: Super Wheelspin
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Good fun with that Valkyrie! Showing location of the chest, to unlock u need to get a lot of wreckage skills in the AMC Rebel. Happy Holidays, Love n Health!
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Forzathon shop changed to:
'22 Toyota Gr86 - 200 fp
Toyota sports 800 - 150 fp
Chevrolet K10 Custom - 100 fp
Renault Clio r.s. - 50 fp
SWS - 100 fp
WS - 40 fp
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Figured I needed something to work on in between cooking the next few days lol. That is a tough choice for me to. I love both those cars. The brz grew on me…grandma driving had me convinced it was only a dirt car for a while. Till I seen you all a while back use it in that trial…and I put a tune on it. Well at least it’s a slow week. The trials have been odd this month.
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This 70’ Buick GSX C’ tune made easy work of the ‘Feeling Santamental’ SC: 312 198 329
I agree!
Been working on the BRZ and 86 tunes this evening with @geistwriter. We have surmised from the thumbnail that the first race is somewhere in the south east side of the map and likely a street race.
With that in mind, we’ve been testing on the Wetland Charge street race. I have to give props to geist for helping me improve my tunes.
He took me in a completely different direction than my initial upgrade choices and it has improved the feel of my tunes immensely.
Really hope Wetland Charge is one of the races because I feel like I’ve become intimately familiar with it during testing.
Now if only I could match geist’s rival times.
lol
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Following Geist is a good idea, as he usually also has tunes up. I like supporting our forum tuners first if I can. If they can’t do it, I don’t wanna do it.
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Definitely, we follow each other and are always going over tuning setups and discussing our weekly stats and just basically chatting about which tunes did well for us and how we’ll approach next seasons events.
His tunes put up amazing download numbers. He’s really helped encourage me and helped improve my tuning.
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Getting some Christmas Eve playlist action in, and dear lord these PR stunts are straight butt. Again, why are we getting single-car restrictions well above the car’s natural PI? I just tried that Fiat speed trap with a quick and dirty auto-upgrade, and that still wasn’t close to the goal. So now I have to create some stupid Frankencar just to pass through a single speed trap, and then immediately revert it back to normal. Compelling gameplay.
(And I mean I created an absolute abomination, a D-class car that literally could not turn and was spinning its wheels in 5th gear. This is why I should not be allowed anywhere near the upgrade menu.)
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Geist and I have had some epic rivals battles over the last couple of years! 
Definitely a good person to get tuning ideas from, especially cross country. 
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Haa, and even the Open Custom task requires upgrading a car two entire PI classes. This is absurd.
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If I’m able to get even close to his time he comes back with an improved time. It’s hopeless for me.
lol
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I generally pick you to follow, you have good times on pretty much every leaderboard, whereas I still have way too many untouched or really old times from 2021
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we certainly nailed down the subtle differences between the 4 nearly identical trial cars 
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The pattern of late seems to be cars with maximum engine and next to no handling. Perhaps if you have throttle control, the Fiat 124 might not be quite that dreadful, but on a keyboard it took a good deal of my limited skill to keep the car from pirouetting wherever it pleased.
The answer to the MR2 was the addition of aero. I tried AWD, wide tyres and as much engine as possible, but corners were still way too sketchy.
The PR stunts (well, some of them) have become majorly annoying for the amount of time that I have to waste on them for the paltry returns that I get. They’re not fun, especially with too much engine and too little handling on a keyboard.
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