I have never played any FH games, and not any forza game since 3. Is the auction house the only place to buy cars? Theres cars i want to buy but arent available, or is that a part of the appeal lol.
Cars are available from:
The Autoshow at Festival Sites
The Auction House at Festival Sites
The Skill Shop in your Pause / Progress Menu
Barn Finds through game progress
Midnight Battles through game progress
Wheelspins (Horizon Edition cars)
Forzathon events
Loyalty Rewards
DLC
Here is a tip for you. Play conservative with your credits. As you level up you will get tons of cars from wheelspins for free. The most expensive car I’ve seen on a wheelspin costed 875.000 credits. It’s safe to buy a car above 1 million credits without having to worry that it might come up at a wheelspin. You could still get a discount for it on a Forzathon event though but that’s uncertain.
Also, enjoy what seem to be the middle class cars, those ranged in PI classes B and A. They are very fun to drive, much more so than all the hypercars in S2. Especially since you are new to Forza (or been gone long) try to drive in a lot of different cars and see what you like the most. Sometimes a really fun-to-drive experience comes from a car you wouldn’t have expected so. 